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'Ludwig' Season 2's First Images Introduce the New Lineup
BritBox's breakout hit, 'Ludwig,' gears up for a second season, with brand-new cast members joining the party.
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David Mitchell solves crimes while impersonating his missing detective twin brother, also David Mitchell.
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Mark Bonnar Joins 'Ludwig' Season 2 As Filming Begins
BritBox has been on a roll since early 2024; the BBC never managed to launch its own standalone streaming service (sorry, BBC Select), but when given one that's already on a successful track, the British Broadcaster certainly knows how to program it effectively. The uptick in premium series
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Ludwig Solves a Murder Close to Home in the Season Finale
It’s always the ones you least suspect, as the season finale of Ludwig kicks off with a shocking plot twist. The previous episode ended with Holly calling Lucy, saying she needed to speak to her about her husband. But if you thought we would see that meeting, you were
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Ludwig Solves an Unsolveable Case in the Season’s Penultimate Episode
How do you solve an unsolvable puzzle? That’s the case Ludwig is trying to crack in Season 1’s penultimate episode. Ludwig and Carter are called to investigate the apparent suicide of a private school headmaster, Mr. Durose (Christopher Parramore). The case resonates with Ludwig because it’s where
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Checkmate! Ludwig Solves a Murder with a Game of Reverse Chess
By his own admission, Ludwig is “quite the legend” in the puzzle-making field. But he has one puzzle — reverse chess — that never quite took off. “Nobody could ever solve them,” Ludwig laments. But finally! Finally! Reverse chess gets its moment to shine in Ludwig's fourth episode. In this
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A Coincidence Solves Two Murders on 'Ludwig'
The third episode of Ludwig starts off with the discovery of a dead body inside a church belonging to Megan (Ella Bruccoleri), a 21-year-old American tour guide who was murdered on the last stop of the Cambridge tour she gives every day. Ludwig and Carter set about interviewing everyone who
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'Rivals' & 'Slow Horses' Go Head to Head in TV BAFTA Nominations
The 2024-2025 TV season is quickly wrapping up, as the next few weeks will be the debuts of all sorts of shows looking for a little awards love, at least here in the States. The Emmy Awards, the U.S.' official national television honors, are one of the few
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The Charming 'Ludwig' is TV’s Latest Maverick Crime Solver
TV loves a maverick crime solver. ABC has a hit with High Potential, which finds cleaning woman Morgan Gillory (Kaitlin Gillory) using her extraordinary IQ and memory retention to solve crimes in Los Angeles. Over at CBS, the title character in Elsbeth (Carrie Preston), leverages her quirky powers of observation
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David Mitchell Talks Mysteries, Cryptic Crosswords & 'Ludwig'
We haven’t even reached the Spring Equinox yet, and David Mitchell is already having a great 2025, with one brand-new murder mystery series set to debut as he’s shooting episodes for another new series, an as-yet-untitled sketch comedy show with his longtime collaborator Robert Webb. Ludwig will arrive
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The 'Ludwig' Trailer Introduces Your New Favorite Bumbling Detective
Most Americans probably first encountered That Mitchell & Webb Look in syndication on BBC America in the early 2010s or streaming on Hulu and Netflix in the twenty-teens. Titular stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb were already quite popular in the U.K., first breaking out with The Mitchell and
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'Ludwig' Season 1 Uncovers a Debut Date on BritBox
David Mitchell’s latest project, Ludwig, is a genre mashup series that technically falls under the category of a police procedural but is more a little bit of everything, considering that the lead is a well-known comedian. Referred to by the BBC as a “case-of-the-week mystery-crime-comedy-drama,” the series’ first season
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BritBox's 2025 Slate Kicks Off with 'Vera' Season 14
Since the BBC bought ITV out of its half of BritBox International nearly a year ago in February 2024, there have been changes afoot. The BBC promised it would not alter the programming strategy or really interfere with BritBox's decision-making; after all, Aunty Beeb had tried and failed