Van der Valk
Van Der Valk Season 3 began filming before the show broadcast Season 2 on PBS and considering the pandemic-enforced delay between Seasons 1 and 2, that was understandable. However, fans were shocked when the first image was released two months after Season 2’s conclusion, revealing substantial cast turnover. Fan
PBS
Filming has officially begun on Season 2 of lauded police procedural D.I. Ray, and Detective Inspector Rachita Ray has returned to Birmingham for another season of mystery and intrigue. The ITV series stars Parminder Nagra as Detective Inspector Rachita Ray, a newly promoted and tenacious officer who combats crime
Acorn TV
It's been over a year since Signora Volpe was initially released on Acorn TV in May 2022. The Italian-set series is about disillusioned British spy Sylvia Fox (Emilia Fox), who attempts to retire to the Mediterranean and reconnect with her family, only to have those plans disrupted by
PBS
Winter is PBS' season of period dramas, with the likes of All Creatures Great & Small, Miss Scarlet & The Duke, and Vienna Blood to warm viewers' hearts during the cold nights. Conversely, the summer is a time for mysteries and thrillers; since 2015, PBS has traded off
Acorn TV
The "cozy crime" mystery series is one of British TV's most popular genres. Police procedurals, in general, have been popular since back in the radio days, but sometimes it feels like BritBox and Acorn TV are stuffed so full of them it's hard to
The Bay
ITV's The Bay didn't have the most promising start in 2019. Though the police procedural series, which began with Morven Christie (Grantchester) in the lead role as DS (later DC) Lisa Armstrong, did decent numbers in the U.K. when it debuted and was renewed quickly,
Acorn TV
The 76th Cannes Film Festival is on in France right now, with the Cannes market in full swing, as films get scooped up by studios for release, and movies in competition hope to set themselves up for award season come fall 2023. But while the A-listers are walking the seashore,
Sundance Now
Sundance Now first announced it was picking up Clean Sweep, an Irish thriller starring Charlene McKenna (Peaky Blinders), as part of the 2023 slate in September 2022. It was part of a larger announcement of series coming to this side of the pond, including SisterS, Totally Completely Fine, and Black
Paramount+
Despite the WGA strike, Paramount+ is continuing with announcing projects heading into production. The latest, which the American production studio will make exclusively under its U.K. arm (and therefore with the WGGB, which is not on strike), is The Castaways, based on British author Lucy Clarke's best-selling
Acorn TV
After several false starts, Acorn TV’s Cannes Confidential finally has a premiere date stateside. The series was commissioned just before the pandemic shut down the world in 2020, heralded as the first English-language procedural drama produced and set in the Cote d’Azur since the 1970s. Unfortunately for Acron
Acorn TV
Dalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a controversial barrister, although her death isn’t the first we see in this two-part adaptation of P. D. James’s novel A Certain Justice. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her home, and Adam and DS Kate Miskin arrest her
Movies
Nuala Ellwood's 2017 debut novel My Sister's Bones was a surprise bestseller right out of the gate. The story of a veteran Iraq and Syrian war reporter suffering from PTSD heading home to Kent after a long stint in Aleppo after the passing of her mother