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Cozy crime series have been the bread and butter of niche streaming services like BritBox and Acorn TV since they launched in the 2010s. But BritBox, which began as a joint project between ITV and the BBC to keep Americans from pirating iPlayer, has changed course since the BBC bought
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The passing of Bernard Hill in May 2024 was tragic timing, as the late actor had only just begun to emerge from a self-imposed retirement he'd taken in 2016. Part of what had drawn the actor to start working again was a script he'd received,
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The BBC's new cop dramady, Blue Lights, was a surprise hit when it debuted in the U.K. in 2023. Set in the Belfast frontline response unit, the series' first order of business was always going to have to square convincing its audiences to watch a piece
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BritBox’s intelligent, playful series McDonald & Dodds challenges and intrigues, thanks to its two titular characters, DCI Lauren McDonald (Tala Gouveia) and DS Dodds (Jason Watkins), and Season 4 debuts on BritBox on May 22, with the first of three feature-length episodes written by Robert Murphy. But before
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It’s very easy to be charmed by the over-ambitious BritBox thriller. It’s tough to pinpoint precisely when and how the implausible small-town crime saga became one of British TV’s most bankable returns on investment. However, British telly writers have many too-complicated-for-soaps storylines
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Even before the BBC bought out BritBox International to make it the new streaming home of the British Broadcast Corporation, the service had gone all in on BAFTA, signing on to become the exclusive streaming home of both the annual Film and Television Awards, along with picking up the Oliviers
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Few things in life are certain, but the constant turnover within the police department on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie might be one of them. Heading into its fourteenth season, Death in Paradise has officially named its fifth actor to take over the role of lead detective. Don
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In 2022, the BBC landed a trio of unexpected gritty hits about the realities of crime and law enforcement. Time, originally a stand-alone miniseries starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, brought in ratings so high that it was turned into an anthology series, the second season of which recently
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For those who have not gotten a chance to watch Beyond Paradise’s Season 2 finale, the top half of this post will remain spoiler-free, but it will shock no one that the second the episode ended, the BBC and BritBox dropped a press release announcing the series had
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Since the beginning of Hope Street, the Northern Ireland set police procedural has been a revolving door of cast. Season 1 kicked off with the arrival of DC Leila Hussain (Amara Karan) to the small town of Port Devine. She'd been transferred as part of a protection program
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Broadcaster ITV confirmed that fan favorite Vera is stepping down from the police force. In a surprise Earth Day announcement, the U.K. broadcaster said the series would conclude with Season 14, which has currently started filming and it expected to continue into the summer of 2024. Rumors had been
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It seems hard to believe that there was no long-running English-language adaptation of Father Brown until the BBC commissioned the Mark Williams-starrer in 2012. However, other than an Austrian series in the late 1960s and a German one in the early aughts, the only major series made