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When Nicola Walker left Unforgotten at the end of Season 4, fans were stunned and heartbroken. The series, a sleeper hit from 2018, had become one of the most popular female-led mystery shows in recent memory. Fans of the series will almost certainly keep tuning in; however, it left a
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There's something special about investigating a murder in beautiful places. That is why Agatha Christie put death on the Nile or small British villages where the quaint cottages mask gruesome crimes. In one of its first series to air on both BritBox US and BritBox UK, the streaming
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After two years away, Vienna Blood's return to PBS was a welcome revival for fans. The British-Austrian psychological thriller based on the Frank Tallis Liebermann novels is a new spin on the Victorian Sherlock Holmes model with a hefty dose of Freudian psychology thrown in. Set in the
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Ever since the debut of Sherlock Holmes, murder mysteries have tended to skew towards an all-male cast of characters. From Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings to Endeavour Morse and Fred Thursday, most of these series are male-centric stories, viewpoints, and attitudes. But with mystery audiences tending to skew heavily female,
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Most mystery series out of the U.K. spring from novels, whether it be the umpteenth adaptation of Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes or more offbeat fare like The Beast Must Die or Magpie Murders. But for every Grantchester and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, there's something
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It wasn't even a year ago that BritBox announced the cast for the Father Brown spinoff, The Sister Boniface Mysteries. The streaming service originally ordered the show in the weeks before the March 2020 shutdown ground filming in the U.K. to a halt. Fans knew the series
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Vienna Blood has leaned heavily into the Liebermans' Jewishness, so opening with Catholic iconography and Gregorian chant is a choice. It's due to a lecture organized by Herr Strobl (Serge Falck), and Professor Priel (David Oberkogler) attended by Mendel, Max, and Amelia, featuring Brother Stanislav (Lukas Watzl)
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BritBox's announcement of Hugh Laurie's adaptation of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? last year marked the production studio's most prominent, most expensive original to date, and the first clip looks spectacular. If the company's response is any indication, it seems
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It's been nearly a year since the announcement first came that Monumental Television, the UK producer best known for Harlots and Ghosts, had picked up the rights to adapt ML Longworth's Verlaque & Bonnet mysteries. The ten-books-and-counting series, set in Aix-en-Provence, features Antoine Verlaque, the charming
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Though it does not have an announced release date yet, Masterpiece's Susanne Simpson confirmed in January that Magpie Murders was planned for a 2022 release, probably in the second half of the year. The series stars Lesley Manville (World On Fire) as Susan Ryeland, mystery author Alan Conway&
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Streaming service AMC+ and its sister linear network, AMC, continue to share and share-alike. The niche streamer, one part British series, one part vampires, and one part zombies, has been playing around with which release strategy is most effective. It's tried weekly in tandem, weekly on streaming/then
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Vienna Blood is set in Vienna in the Edwardian era, but Victorian-style street urchins are universal in mysteries. The episode starts with one who stole a watch (Dajana Rajic). She leads the police on a merry chase through Landstrasse, ending with finding a dismembered body, missing a hand. Reinhardt is