PBS Announces Filming for 'Winter' Is Underway
The newest British police procedural heading to PBS, 'Winter,' based on the French series 'Balthazar,' rounds out its cast as filming commences.
The newest British police procedural heading to PBS, 'Winter,' based on the French series 'Balthazar,' rounds out its cast as filming commences.
Disney/Hulu
Surprise! Another popular British series is crossing the pond this month to stream on Hulu with relatively little promotional fanfare. The streaming service has acquired the high-octane thriller Red Eye and will release the series as a binge drop before the end of July 2025. The streamer is also releasing
Netflix
Netflix initially stumbled into success with U.K. audiences on New Year's Day in 2022, when the streaming service released its miniseries adaptation of Harlan Coben's Stay Close on New Year's Eve 2021 and discovered half of the U.K. had tuned in to
Netflix
People underestimated Netflix when it started making original programming because they mistook the streaming service for wanting to be HBO (or, at the time, AMC or FX). However, from the beginning, Netflix's goal was to replace TV. Not just TV in the U.S., but in every country;
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Netflix's dive into adaptations of Harlan Coben thriller novels, resetting them in the U.K. and starring British actors, has been a slam dunk in terms of viewership, especially the English-language ones. The last two releases, Stay Close and Fool Me Once, released on New Year's
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Netflix continues to expand its Harlan Coben library of adaptations heading into 2024. Though the writer is American (he hails from New Jersey), his novels slide easily into the mold of U.K. crime thrillers, and since the streaming service signed an overall deal with his production company Final Twist
Drama
For most of us, overnight flights are a nightmare at the best of times. From the cramped conditions and disorienting time changes to the fact that it's almost impossible to sleep, red eyes are the worst. And that's without dealing with high-stakes threats involving murder and
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In case you forgot that Brian De Palma doesn’t make movies anymore, Netflix has produced an erotic thriller called Obsession, and it ranks somewhere above 365 Days and somewhere below – well, maybe nothing; erotic thrillers aren’t exactly Netflix’s specialty. The psycho-sexual adultery tale unfolds in four brief
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Though actor Richard Armitage is an almost universally beloved figure among Anglophiles (North and South is an absolutely perfect period drama and we should say so!), in the past few years he hasn't been on our screens all that much. Sure he's done a ton of
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As part of our new "Classics Revisited" series, we're taking a look back at some of our favorite series and movies from days gone by. Next up: The 2004 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South, which happens to be one of