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Anyone familiar with the British TV landscape likely remembers the time almost exactly 10 years ago when BBC staple Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary with the dazzling episode “The Day of the Doctor.” Between all the cameos and callbacks, one element that held the whole episode together often goes
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Stephen Graham (Time) and Malachi Kirby (Small Axe) are set to star in Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight's upcoming Disney+ period drama A Thousand Blows, a story set in the perilous world of illegal boxing in 1880s Victorian London. Loosely based on real-life figures and stories, the
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British rom-com and Sundance darling Rye Lane will debut on Hulu in March 2023. In this homage to the genre and to the South London neighborhood in which it is set, a pair of 20-somethings collide in a classic meet-cute and help each other heal from heartbreak.
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Even in the time of Web 3.0, there's nothing like a simple message board to attract readers. Here in the states, the most popular seems to be Reddit's famous AITA (Am I The [Expletive]?), the letters from which regularly go viral. In the U.K.
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Huzzah! The third season of Hulu's sly, satirical, and utterly delightful period drama The Great will officially premiere on the streamer this May. The series comes from Oscar-winner Tony McNamara (The Favourite) and stars Elle Fanning as Empress Catherine the Great, the longest-reigning female monarch in
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Streaming service Hulu has officially acquired the offbeat BBC Three horror comedy Wreck, a series with a truly wacky premise that's one part high school comedy, one relationship drama, and one part murder mystery where the killer is a murderous duck in a raincoat. While the phrase "
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Big things are coming to the world of Doctor Who. The iconic sci-fi franchise turns sixty years old in 2023 and will celebrate accordingly, with a trio of anniversary specials that will somehow involve former Doctor David Tennant, former companion Catherine Tate, and new incoming Doctor Ncuti Gatwa. Filming
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Our collective obsession with superheroes has spread into every facet of our pop culture, from blockbuster films based on popular comic book franchises to sly satires like The Boys and The Umbrella Academy, which gleefully skewer many of the tropes and trends that make the genre so popular. Hulu'
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With filming underway on the first full Doctor Who season featuring Ncuti Gatwa's new Doctor, we're finally getting our first details about what this next era of the popular sci-fi franchise will be like. While we're unlikely to know for some time exactly
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There are very few shows where historical period dramas and police procedural mysteries crossover. The lack of shows that meet the criteria of both fandoms is why Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries was so popular and why Miss Scarlet & The Duke is currently such a massive hit for
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The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary special (or trio of specials) is almost a full year out, and we know a lot about them. Since the BBC revealed Russell T. Davies was returning to the series as showrunner since leaving in 2009, there's been a flurry of news. David
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Doctor Who fans have been given a lot of gifts this year. Yes, we had to say farewell to the franchise's first female Doctor Jodie Whittaker. (Sniff!) But we've also had the announcement of a brand new Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and a new companion (Millie Gibson)