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Everything Coming to BritBox & AcornTV in January 2026
Our monthly rundown of everything coming to the British-focused niche streaming services like BritBox and AcornTV, in January 2026
Lucy Lawless solves crimes in New Zealand.
Now Stream This
Our monthly rundown of everything coming to the British-focused niche streaming services like BritBox and AcornTV, in January 2026
PBS
PBS has been off cycle from the commercial TV world ever since it discovered it could have the entirety of January to itself. However, spring is still a significant part of the schedule, especially when Masterpiece has a series it genuinely believes can compete in the yearly Primetime Emmy push.
Acorn TV
AMC Networks will face its first reckoning of 2025 in mid-February, when the final numbers come in for 2024, and the parent company of the little federation of streaming services headed up by AMC+ has to admit if its strategy is working. (Signs aren't good, but we live
Exclusive
With its fourth season premiering stateside in mid-June 2024, Acorn TV’s hit series My Life Is Murder is back for another round of cozy crimes down under. The series stars Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) as retired police detective Alexa Crowe, a whip-smart and fearless powerhouse who assists the
Acorn TV
As lead actress Lucy Lawless noted in a recent interview with Telly Visions (coming later this week!), the draw of My Life Is Murder, its main character Alexa Crowe, and the cozy mystery genre as a whole is the sense that things will be “set to rights” by the end
Acorn TV
Lucy Lawless is back as Alexa Crowe, the fearless and unapologetic investigator who stars in the New Zealand-set mystery series My Life Is Murder. And this time, the trailer makes it clear she's bound and determined that everyone will know her name by the end of the two-minute
Acorn TV
Popular crime drama My Life Is Murder Season 1 only just found its way to PBS Passport for new fans to discover the series, but for those who have been watching since it debuted in 2019, there's good news about new episodes. Season 4 finally has a release
PBS
Winter has officially rolled out, at least as far as the calendar is concerned, and spring is here. April is one of the best times of the year, both outside in the sunshine and inside in the glow of the television. This is the month when the big boys roll
PBS
If March winds bring April showers, apparently, for PBS Passport, they also bring Acorns. Earlier this year, we reported that the original Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries would be streaming on PBS Passport for the first time starting April 1, 2024, with all of Season 1 arriving on the
Mystery
Lucy Lawless spent most of the 1990s a cult figure for her role as Xena, Warrior Princess, back in the old days of TV fantasy pre-Game of Thrones. She spent the aughts in another cult hit, Battlestar Galactica, as one of the Cylons (she was Number 3), which meant sometimes
Mystery
Acorn TV is getting deeper into the business of picking up shows that do well for it when the initial network that greenlit it drops the ball. The streamer, well-known among fans of shows like Ms. Fisher and Agatha Raisin, which Acorn rescued from oblivion, has announced it is taking
Culture
It's fall! The apples are bobbing, the spooky season is trending, and on streaming, everything emphasizes horror movies or Christmas. But for those looking for British TV, the best place this month is PBS, which has not one, not two, but three fan favorites arriving this month after