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In 1954, Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) meets Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton) on a London-bound train and learns of suspicious deaths in the opening scenes of Murder is Easy, the newest Agatha Christie adaptation from the BBC and BritBox. A sumptuous visual feast, this two-part limited series excels at
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Last week, just ahead of London's major TV showcase, the BBC's new Head of Drama, Lindsey Salt, put her stake in the ground with a dozen shows greenlit for 2024. As Telly Visions noted, 11 of those were brand-new series, a daring proposition in an
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It's been a while since American viewers heard anything about ITVX's Passenger (not to be confused with the Channel 4 series Passengers, which ended in the mid-aughts), confirmed in August 2023 to be debuting stateside on BritBox. ITVX included it in the end-of-year
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There's good news for BBC comedy fans, as renewals and new series have been greenlit for the British Broadcaster for 2024. While American networks were trotting out their best series for Spring at the Television Critics Association Winter press tour, the BBC Director of Comedy, Jon Petrie, announced
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BritBox has announced that the second season of Jimmy McGovern's (Broken) award-winning prison drama Time will arrive on the streaming service in March, though its cast and story will look decidedly different than its first. The first season of Time starred Sean Bean (Marriage) and Stephen Graham
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With the success of Why Didn't They Ask Evans and Murder Is Easy, the BBC and BritBox are wasting no time announcing their next co-production of an Agatha Christie miniseries. The next book to get the 21st century updated treatment will be the 1944 novel Towards Zero,
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It's been just over three years since Sarah Phelps ended her run as the BBC's appointed scribe for Agatha Christie adaptations with 2020's The Pale Horse, a series done in conjunction with Amazon's Prime Video. Since then, the BBC has moved to
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BritBox’s Three Little Birds is not always an easy drama to watch. But it’s an important one. The 1950s-set period project hails from Black British comedian Sir Lenny Henry, who based the series on the stories of his mother and those like her who traveled to the
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The close of the Second World War led to many sweeping changes in domestic and international policy in Britain – including a nationalized health service, the declaration of India’s independence in 1947, and the introduction of the welfare state. One change that redefined the social and occupational makeup of the
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For Americans, the title Bad Education will probably bring to mind images of Hugh Jackman in the HBO movie based on real events about a Long Island superintendent who lived a double life that was released in 2020. However, long before that film, there was already a British series on
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The WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike accidentally caused a delay in all fall scheduled award presentations, causing a logjam from January to mid-March 2024, as every awards show that should have been held over a nine-month span crams itself into a nine-week one. That makes it a little
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When Robert Thorogood initially created the British/French mystery series Death in Paradise in 2011, he probably didn't envision it as a series that would be on its fourth lead detective by the time it hit Season 10 or reach a level of popularity that it would be