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Season 1 of D.I. Ray has all the comfortable hallmarks of a classic police procedural, a fresh perspective, and a compelling protagonist. That said, it also has plenty of room to improve. With the show quickly renewed for Season 2 by ITV in November 2022, the network has recognized
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The Good Friday Agreement, signed in April 1998 and ratified by both Ireland and Northern Ireland by popular vote a month later in May 1998, marked the end of a long and turbulent history between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, which had been actively violent for the
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Unforgotten Season 5 might be arriving first on PBS in the fall of 2023, to introduce a new DCI now that Nicola Walker has left the series. But Walker's detecting skills won't be far behind. The debut of the second season of Walker's new
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Based on the 2018 Sunday Times bestseller novel of the same name by Louise Candlish, Our House was adapted by Simon Ashdown (Eastenders) and directed by Sheree Folkson (Bridgerton) for Red Planet Pictures/ITV back in 2022. The four-episode show originally debuted on PBS Passport for members in May
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Van der Valk skipped a year between Seasons 1 and 2 due to pandemic-induced filming delays, airing in September 2020 and September 2022, respectively. However, Season 3 will have no such difficulties, with new episodes arriving right on time for September 2023. The series is even bumping its usual
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Due to the ineffable whims of scheduling, the last two episodes of Grantchester Season 8 arrived together, airing back-to-back on PBS Masterpiece as a two-hour block. And, while that particularly broadcast decision was perhaps an unintentional one, the pairing of the final two episodes of the season
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The Ridley cold open features Ridley fast asleep on the couch, dreaming the house is on fire. It was only a dream; the man responsible for the fire, Michael Flannery, is locked up, unable to see his mother in her final hours. It's too late now; she'
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Though it appears that while Sean Bean (Time) won't be part of World on Fire when the period drama returns for its second season later this year, fans of the BAFTA winner will still be able to catch him on PBS this Fall. He's starring opposite
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The ghost of Nicola Walker's Cassie Stuart was always going to hang heavy over Unforgotten's fifth season, as the series attempts to carry on after Stuart's death via a car crash. It also doesn't help that Walker already jumped to a new
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To no one’s surprise, DI Rachita Ray survived the shooting at the end of the last episode unscathed, and she’s back to finish what she started in the season finale of D.I. Ray. This episode is best served with the knowledge that D.I. Ray has already
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Even if Masterpiece hadn't already announced that Tom Brittney would be leaving Grantchester at the end of this season, at this point, I think most of us would be expecting it. (Though, admittedly, I do appreciate the powers that be confirming that the show will continue with Whitstable
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Professor T already had multiple foreign language versions available when Walter Presents chose it as part of the first set of English language remakes for the newly minted Eagle Eye Drama. The original Belgian series ran three seasons from 2015-2018, starring Koen De Bouw as Jasper Teerlinck, aka Professor