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From the BBC's initial announcement of the Sherwood cast in 2022, it was pretty clear that James Graham's series about the titular northern red wall town would be special. An all-star lineup for a series that was nominally inspired by the true crime killings in
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Streaming service BritBox will be closing out summer with a little extra sizzle next month with the launch of the new series The Ex-Wife, a four-part psychological thriller about a woman who can't seem to let go of her previous relationship. Based on Jess Ryder’s
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Wilkie Collins is credited with inventing the modern mystery with The Woman in White. Arthur Conan Doyle is considered the father of the modern detective for introducing the world to Sherlock Holmes. But for sheer breadth and depth of canon, nothing beats Agatha Christie, whose writing career spanned 50 years,
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BritBox has scooped up yet another BBC One hit six months after it's original debut. Granite Harbour, a Scottish-set police procedural that's billed as more drama than mystery, first debuted on BBC Scotland in December 2022, followed by a BBC One debut this past spring.
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While Americans were celebrating July 4th weekend with fireworks and barbeque, BritBox and the BBC were getting into a spot of murder, and Agatha Christie murder at that. The new co-production, Murder Is Easy, was initially announced in February 2023 as the latest in the lineup of BritBox'
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Co-commissioned by the BBC and BritBox International, Beyond Paradise is the second super successful spinoff of a long-running, already-popular mystery brand, Death In Paradise. The first success story, Sister Boniface Mysteries (a spinoff of Father Brown), recently announced filming had commenced on Season 3. Now filming has
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Sister Boniface is heading back to the well-named Great Slaughter in the Cotswolds to solve more mysteries. U.S. streaming service BritBox has confirmed BBC Studios and UKTV are reteaming to produce a third season of the popular Father Brown spinoff, Sister Boniface Mysteries. Not only is the show
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Sir Lenny Henry's Three Little Birds is one of BritBox's most anticipated imports from the BBC heading this way in 2023. The actor doesn't star in it, however; he wrote it. It's his first TV drama series, based on the story of
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As most assumed, Time will be returning to BritBox for its second season. The series was initially planned as a limited three-episode series set inside a men's prison, starring Sean Bean as an inmate struggling to survive and Stephen Graham as the correctional officer trying to stay
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Like many series that premiered in the glut of 2020-2021, Grace was initially overlooked by American audiences when it first arrived. The series, starring John Simm (Life on Mars) as DSI Roy Grace, was based on the Roy Grace books written by novelist Peter James, with Russell Lewis — the
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ITV's The Bay didn't have the most promising start in 2019. Though the police procedural series, which began with Morven Christie (Grantchester) in the lead role as DS (later DC) Lisa Armstrong, did decent numbers in the U.K. when it debuted and was renewed quickly,
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Mystery series are a staple of the British entertainment industry, so much so at you might be forgiven for wondering if every English citizen just happens to be a part-time crime solver on the side. Because if you go by what you see on the screen in these series,