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It took until the 2020s for traditional networks to get on board, but in the last few years, one of the benefits of streaming has been making shows once geolocked to their respective countries available worldwide. The obvious headliners of this sector have mainly been sports and live events, where
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that popular mystery series can pretty much run forever. Midsomer Murders is currently shooting its twenty-fifth season. Death in Paradise has been solving crimes in a tropical paradise for fourteen seasons, and Father Brown has been balancing investigative and spiritual duties for twelve. Heck,
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When Murdoch Mysteries was announced for Season 18, every press release made note that the new season would bring the series to a landmark milestone when it reached Episode 10, “The Men Who Sold the World”: 300 episodes. That may not sound so impressive in a world of streaming insanity,
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Murdoch Mysteries’ eighteen seasons may seem paltry next to shows like the U.K.’s Midsomer Murders (Season 25) or Silent Witness (Season 28). However, on this side of the pond, it’s nearly legendary as Canada’s longest-running scripted one-hour drama series. The period mystery series first debuted in
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We are a full quarter of the way into the 21st century. However, not everyone is quick to embrace the future, not even in television, even though most would assume those who work with filming tech would be the first to adopt any new technology bandwagon. Murdoch Mysteries is a
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It was only a few weeks ago that we noted Murdoch Mysteries was finally getting with the 2020s, adding its first full-time lead to the roster in nearly a decade, the first since Georgina Reilly's Dr. Emily Grace exited the series after Season 9, and the first leading
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PBS may crow over Endeavour running ten years or Grantchester rounding to Season 9, but real ones know that the true long-running cozy crime series isn't official until it's gone well into the double digits, like Death in Paradise, Father Brown, or Vera. Even so, those
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Most of the time, when people think of a "long-running weekly mystery series," the first things that come to mind are British shows. That's not an unfair reaction; between the launch of the government-funded BBC network and the plethora of Shakepearean-trained talent, the tiny island that