Netflix
Netflix initially revealed it had commissioned an adaptation of playwright Julia May Jonas' best-selling novel, Vladimir, in March 2025. The book, a "darkly comic thriller," was Jonas's debut novel when it arrived in February 2022, and it shot to the top of multiple bestseller lists
HBO & HBO Max
Even though The White Lotus is created and written by the very American multi-hyphenate Mike White, who also acts, directs, and was in a season of The Amazing Race, its international yet predominantly English-speaking acting ensembles have made me think of it as a British series. The brief seasons, dry
Peacock
There’s a whole generation of women who grew up with Bridget Jones. We read Helen Fielding’s popular novels. We watched the movies. We followed Bridget (Renée Zellweger) as a single woman in her thirties, obsessed with her weight, counting her cigarette and alcohol intake, struggling with her career,
Apple TV
Watching a TV series means wholly leaning into the willing suspension of disbelief. Characters on TV wake up with perfect makeup and hair. They live in beautifully furnished apartments, and their salaries would never allow them to afford. They never seem to have to go to the bathroom or worry
Apple TV
Mathematics isn't a subject that most people tend to view as all that exciting. (Though Tom Stoppard devotees who love Arcadia specifically will almost certainly — and rightly! — argue otherwise. However, Apple TV+ is banking on the power of prime numbers in its latest British thriller, Prime Target, a
Peacock
The Bridget Jones's Diary film, adapted from the beloved novel, launched a trilogy of blockbuster films. The romantic comedy was one of the leading British films, but it wasn't a science fiction/fantasy film of the early 2000s. Released in 2001, the initial movie made American
Apple TV
Apple TV+ will extend its current run of streaming one British series a month into 2025. Its latest, Prime Target, was first announced just under a year ago, in February 2024; a good old-fashioned thriller where a scholar on the verge of a global-level breakthrough finds himself being pursued by