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BBC One’s prison-set series Time was initially set as a one-off, closed-ended limited series starring Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) as the newly imprisoned Mark Cobden and Stephen Graham (This Is England) as Prison Officer Eric McNally. Written by Jimmy McGovern (Accused), the series was written for those two
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Brian Cox (the Scottish actor, not the Scottish astrophysicist) has worked on stage and TV since the early 1960s. A classically trained Shakespearean performer, he has multiple accolades, including Oliviers, Emmys, Golden Globes, Screen Actor Guild awards, not to mention an Order of the British Empire. However, the current role
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Streaming service BritBox has announced that the third season of the popular crime drama Grace is set to premiere this April, just a few short weeks after its broadcast concluded in the U.K. Based on the popular series of novels by Peter James -- which is currently at 18
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On the surface, the cozy mystery series Father Brown, which is based on the G.K. Chesterton novels in which a Roman Catholic priest solves crimes in a quaint English village, seems an unlikely candidate to spawn an interconnected world of spin-offs. Yet, that's precisely what happened with
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton is one of the most original period dramas you’ll watch this year. One part murder mystery, one part historical drama, and one part queer romance, it’s a series that touches on all manner of themes along the intersection of race, gender, class, and
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The BBC initially commissioned Season 1 of The Cleaner in August 2020, during what felt like a never-ending pandemic. The show's premise was inspired by the times, starring a guy in the hazmat suit whose job was to come in and clean and disinfect various locations after the
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It's possible, perhaps even likely, that you haven't heard of the period drama The Confessions of Frannie Langton, which arrives on BritBox in early March. But this four-part series may be one of the best shows — of any genre — you'll see on television this
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The curse cast upon the detective inspectors of Death In Paradise's St. Marie may at long last be ending. Following the conclusion of Season 12, the BBC has confirmed that the long-running tropical island set mystery series has been recommissioned for two more seasons, taking the show'
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ITV's The Bay premiered in March 2019, starring Morven Christie as DS Lisa Armstrong, the Family Liaison Officer (FLO) for the fictional West Lancashire Police Service. A single mother of two, the first season centered around the case of a missing pair of twins, only for Armstrong to
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Just like 2022's The Sister Boniface Mysteries took a memorable character from Father Brown's long ago first season and spun her into habit-wearing mystery solving gold, the BBC and BritBox’s latest series, Beyond Paradise, picks up pair of characters from Death in Paradise Season 6.
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BritBox’s 2022 fall lineup of U.K. shows had some real gems that flew under the radar in a crowded landscape. Sherwood, for example, was one of the best shows on TV anywhere, hands down, and quickly landed a second season renewal. But another series that arrived in October
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At the Television Critics Association press tour in January 2022, BritBox announced ahead of the debut of Hugh Laurie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans that the miniseries was the first of many Agatha Christie serials to come, joking about creating a Christie Cinematic Universe for the