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Peacock initially debuted in 2020, boasting a slate of British imported originals, including the David Schwimmer-starring Intelligence and the bold thriller The Capture, playing up its Downton Abbey connections. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, its bench wasn't very deep, and even though The Capture Season 2 was already
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PBS' biggest hit of the last decade, Downton Abbey, arrived in 2010, three years before Netflix streamed its first original, and ended in 2015, two years before Disney, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal, and Apple all jumped in with their own services. Its journey on streaming has been a microcosm of how
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Given how many options there are these days when it comes to streaming services, it's natural that some might fall through the cracks for viewers. With big names like Netflix and Hulu constantly pumping out content and niche streamers like Acorn TV and Britbox there to fill in
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Eurovision week arrives once a year in the second week of May, come hell or high water, and in some cases, war. The music competition, which is supposed to represent a peaceful Europe where the only nationalist conflict is who sang best, is being held for the first time while
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The name Jed Mecurio has essentially become synonymous with the idea of a high-octane dramatic thriller. From Bodyguard to Line of Duty, his shows are fast-paced and propulsive, full of shocking twists and compelling, if often morally gray, characters. His latest effort, Trigger Point, is set in the high-pressure world
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Police procedurals come in all stripes, from those featuring oddball duos solving mysteries together to those set in small, bucolic rural villages with the sort of minuscule population sizes that could never realistically support a rash of serial killings. But they've all got nothing on the BBC'
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Given the preponderance of streaming services that are available these days - and the breadth of Anglophile-related content spread across what feels like all of them - you might be forgiven for forgetting all about Peacock, NBC's streaming service that offers up exclusive programming in addition to next
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Former Doctor Who star David Tennant is set to headline the new Peacock drama Hide opposite his real life spouse Georgia Tennant. The pair will also executive produce the series, which is described as a thriller that's loosely based on the classic story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
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On paper, Peacock’s Noughts + Crosses should have been a buzzy summer hit – a cultural conversation starter a la Hulu’s The Handmaid's Tale that arrived at a perfect and necessary moment, pushing its viewers toward necessary conversations about issues of race and cultural privilege. In actuality, the
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Peacock's arrival marks the fourth major streaming service in eight months to debut for viewers since November of 2019. Like it's precessors, Disney+ and HBO Max, it is the product of a single company, in this case, Comcast, using its best-known brand, NBC, to create a
Downton Abbey
When Downton Abbey first debuted on Masterpiece in the winter of 2011, it was a game-changer for the longtime PBS program. The series, previously known as Masterpiece Theater, had only rebranded two seasons earlier, with a format that made program offerings more inclusive, and more contemporary. But even so, no
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Buzzy technological thriller The Capture will come to the U.S. this July as part of the launch of NBC streaming service Peacock. The series stars The Borgias' Holliday Grainger as DI Rachel Carey, a counterterrorism officer brought in to help investigate the case of a U.K. Special