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Netflix
The world of period drama is steadily getting bigger. Not only are we (finally!) getting more stories focused on British periods outside of the Regency (Mary & George, Monstrous Beauty), lavish foreign dramas are rapidly picking up the slack when it comes to historical dramas set outside the United Kingdom.
Netflix
Netflix’s hit show and star-maker Sex Education will graduate for good this fall, with its upcoming fourth season to be its last. Netflix announced the end of the show with a Season 4 trailer and a heartfelt letter to fans from series creator Laurie Nunn. Even before the
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In case you were missing them, we’ve got a new streaming documentary to tell a buzzy story from pop culture past that’s also endorsed by the central subjects and estates and fundamentally uncritical of any of the information they offer – but this time it’s about WHAM!, so
Champion
Netflix used the long Juneteenth weekend to debut its yearly marketing extravaganza, the ridiculously-named Tudum, and drop release dates and photos (and a trailer or two) from its upcoming series. However, one upcoming series got left off the menu, the brand new co-production Champion, which Netflix is doing
Bridgerton
The success of Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story has been a highlight of the romance franchise, proving that there are plenty of stories in the tank to be told about the various members of the ton in the Bridgerton universe. However, the series' main trunk is the various members
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The Crown no longer holds the record as the most ambitious series a streaming service has ever greenlit (that title has been taken by Max's declared ten-season sight-unseen Potter series). However, it remains one of the pinnacles of Netflix's early ambitions. Six seasons, three
Netflix
Surprise --- our long wait for more Black Mirror is almost over, and sooner than most of us likely expected. Although Netflix announced back in April that Season 6 of the award-winning sci-fi drama would premiere in June, the streaming service has only just confirmed the specific release date.
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Succession is a borderline Britsh series, written by Brits and starring Brian Cox and Matthew MacFadyen, but also a bunch of Americans and produced by HBO. However, it also has a secret Australian in the mix, Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv Roy. Snook's performance as the only daughter
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Once upon a time (because the best posts about romances always start that way), when an American show was a hit with audiences, that meant it would run for years. M*A*S*H, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends; all ran for a decade or more. When Game of Thrones hit the
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When Bridgerton originally premiered during the holiday season of 2020, it was a bit of a radical piece of television. TV mega-producer Shonda Rhimes took the classic Regency romance novel, and instead of bowdlerizing it the way "Women's Television" romances on Lifetime and Hallmark Channel
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Less than two weeks after its premiere, Netflix has renewed its popular political drama The Diplomat for a second season. The contemporary political drama stars award-winning actress Keri Russell (The Americans) as Kate Wyler, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, who must immediately handle an
Heartstopper
For anyone who missed the Heartstopper train when the show swept the internet last spring, now is the time to hop on board. Heartstopper’s second season will be released this summer, followed by Red, White & Royal Blue, another queer rom-com page-to-screen adaptation that is sure