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Considering how fast a turnaround broadcast TV shows live under, it's not all that surprising that most people have no idea how long movies spend in development. Most big-name high-action thrillers can be filmed two to three years before the producers have any thought of the finished product
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Nothing keeps the Peaky Blinders down. Not even what seemed at the time to be a series ending. Word on the street is that, despite running six full seasons on Netflix and the BBC and landing a feature film continuation, the story of the Shelby clan might not be as
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From Black Mirror's humble beginnings on Channel 4 (which canceled it, only to see Netflix swoop in and turn it into one of the most famous shows of the decade) to its biggest budget streaming seasons, the series has managed to predict some of the darkest moments of
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Period costume escapist television has undergone a renaissance in the 2020s. Thanks to shows like Bridgerton and Sanditon, there's been a real movement in the last five years to be more honest about the past, with productions choosing to both write about Black history along with the typical
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Not that round numbers are more meaningful milestones than prime numbers, but it speaks to how many projects have been delayed (and for how long) that in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Five, two docudramas are reviving the story of Pan Am 103, based on the famous
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Netflix initially announced it was picking up Legends, the newest pitch for a thriller based on one of the U.K.'s high-profile heists from writer Neil Forsyth, in August 2024. Forsyth was coming off a major hit in the U.K.; his critically adored six-part, Hugh Bonneville-starring The
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It’s easy to praise Netflix’s new drama series Adolescence. Creators Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham have a skill not just for seeing a criminal drama through the “law” stage of booking and processing, but also for stewing in the stressful purgatory before the trial and “order” to explain
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If the real world feels like it's getting a little too much for you these days, don't worry, Netflix's dystopian techno-horror anthology Black Mirror is coming to make you feel at least a little better that things aren't worse. A modern-day version
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One of the best things you may not realize about Netflix is how deep the streamer's library of international original series runs. (Or precisely how many of those series are likely to appeal to Anglophiles.) Though these shows may be in languages other than English, a fair amount
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Corby is on the warpath in the second half of Netflix’s Toxic Town – we shift focus to the 2000s where the long-gestating legal case gathers steam against the town council for their negligence that poisoned local pregnant women with toxic waste. But, like a lot of landmark legal wins,
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Toxic Town is the story of the Corby Toxic Waste case, a landmark court case dubbed “the British Erin Brockovich” that has now spawned a swift, pacy Netflix miniseries that borrows not just from the formula of the crowd-pleasing Julia Roberts film, but also the 25 years of media about
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There are plenty of reasons to be annoyed with Netflix these days, from the streamer's seemingly endless price increases and questionable recommendation algorithm to its penchant for canceling series before they get a chance to grow an audience (cough Dead Boy Detectives cough) or because they're