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Mystery series Vera will be back for a fourteenth season, ITV confirmed the morning after Season 13 concluded in the U.K. The quick turnaround nature of the announcement was a deliberate move by the network to calm an online storm set off earlier in January 2024 when The Sun
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A British comedy you might have missed in 2023 is getting a second chance to find its audience with a second season currently underway, featuring two beloved guest stars. Avoidance is a comedy-drama made for BBC One, co-created by Benjamin Green (Romantic Getaway) and Romesh Ranganathan (Staged). Fans
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Recalibrating the cop show in an age where terms like “ACAB” and “copaganda” have reached mainstream awareness is no easy task, but despite the vast majority of cop show audiences won’t, in all likelihood, care too much about systemic police corruption, producers and networks are always trying to convince
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Three major long-running reality series in the U.K. are considered the kings of the genre, where every season is a rating smash. The first, Strictly Come Dancing, which began in 2004, airs on ABC here as Dancing with the Stars. The second, The Great British Bake Off, here
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While Doctor Who may boast it just celebrated its 60th Anniversary, fans know that a good decade and a half of that was spent off the air, in the wilderness of fandom supporter media, including radio dramas, novels, and one 1996 television film that nearly killed the franchise. However, 1996
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Released by ITV in 2008 and originally aired on Ovation in the U.S., Lost in Austen has a terrific cast and is one of the most wacko and inventive Austen interpretations ever made. The four-part series was directed by Dan Zeff and adapted from Austen’s 1813 novel
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A tradition that began with the original run from 1971-78, the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series has now steadily released annual entries since 2018 (minus the first year of the pandemic). Unlike the classically structured short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, this adaptation of his Lot
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Father Brown is heading back to the airwaves to solve more crimes. The BBC announced today that Season 11 will debut in early January in the U.K., with the show arriving on BritBox only a couple of weeks later for American viewers. Based on the novels by G.K.
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We first reported on After The Flood back in February 2023, when Sophie Rundle (Gentleman Jack) first boarded the series as lead actor. It was Rundle's first time back in a police procedural since her turn in Happy Valley, and once again, her time as a cop was
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Some British shows get Christmas specials right out of the gate, a sign of just how strong the ratings are with the general public and the series' popularity. The Doctor Who reboot, for example, Call The Midwife, and All Creatures Great & Small all come to mind. Then there
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The top-rated BBC series Being Human, originally aired from 2008 until 2013, has finally found its way to streaming, first on BritBox and now on AMC+. Created by Toby Whithouse, whose earlier work included 2001's Bridget Jones’ Diary, the creative team originally intended the series to be
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BritBox’s four-part biographical drama Archie is, ostensibly, the story of Archibald Leach, the man generally known to the world as Cary Grant. But while the show touches on multiple periods of his life, from his childhood in poverty to his young adulthood on stage and his mid-life