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Changing leads midstream is not unusual for long-running police procedures; it’s just a matter of figuring out how to incorporate it. It’s why shows like Grantchester aren’t called “The Sidney Chambers Mysteries” or the Chief Inspector Ganache adaptation will be called the Three Pines series because
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Since the one-two punch of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, British mysteries have been one of the U.K.'s most popular exports in the entertainment business. The genre is so popular that PBS's Masterpiece had to create a separate franchise branch, Mystery!, to cover
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Sherwood's first season was one of the best shows of the year on any network, and with viewership to match, the BBC hurried to renew the show for a second season before the embargo it was coming to BritBox US had dropped. However, the story told about the
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Though most Americans are probably familiar with the work of actress (and likely future Dame) Keeley Hawes from either the megapopular Netflix thriller Bodyguard in which she had positively smoking chemistry with co-star Richard Madden or the cozy PBS drama The Durrells in Corfu, where she took us on
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BBC’s Sherwood was the must-see series of Summer 2022 in the UK. Social media was abuzz after each of the six episodes, and a second season has already been commissioned. Four months later, the acclaimed British drama has come to our shores via BritBox, with all episodes streaming
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Here at PBS, we've been touting Masterpiece's all-female detective lineup for fall, with Kate Phillips returning as Miss Scarlet, Nicola Walker from Unforgotten in Annika, where she played the titular detective, and Lesley Manville in the new series, Magpie Murders. But they aren't
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BritBox's last major debut for September 2022 is Channel 4's Suspect, starring James Nesbitt (Bloodlands) as a hardbitten detective and based on the Danish series Face to Face (Forhøret), created by Christoffer Boe. Despite the very close name, it is not to be confused with The
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The passing of Queen Elizabeth II is a monumental event for the United Kingdom and the world at large. Born in 1926, she was a cultural touchstone through decades of change and uncertainty and a steadying force at the center of her own family's dramas. She reigned for
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Sherwood was one of the BBC's big hits of the summer of 2022. Inspired by real-life murders in Nottinghamshire in 2004, where series creator and writer James Graham hails from, the series is a meditation on the era's politics wrapped in the guise of a
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Crime dramas are a dime a dozen these days, and while some tell their often harrowing tales better than others, this is not traditionally a genre that lends itself to a great deal of experimentation. Sure, Jed Mercurio's high-octane pacing helps set his particular brand of thriller
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What is it about faking your own death that appeals to people? For some, it's about defrauding insurance, but for others, it's the idea of starting over with a clean slate as if your life problems won't follow. Unfortunately, the problem most people have
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You may not have read Val McDermid's Scottish set mystery series, affectionately known as "Tartan Noir," but you've most likely encountered a TV adaptation or two. Her best-selling Wire in The Blood series was adapted as a three-part mystery back in 2002,