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It's been almost two years since we first reported Natalie Dormer (The Tudors) would lead the South African crime thriller White Lies. At the time, the news came not long after the debut of the South African mystery series Recipes for Love & Murder on Acorn TV; it
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Australia's leading streaming service, Stan, initially commissioned Black Snow as a standalone miniseries in 2022, with Travis Finnel (Dune: Prophecy) attached to lead the crime drama as Detective James Cormack. Billed as a "coming-of-age whodunit," Season 1 focused on a 1990s-era small-town
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It took over two years for the newest adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos to arrive in the U.S. after it aired and streamed on SkyMax in mid-2022, doubling the length of its title along the way to become The Midwich Cuckoos: Villiage of the Damned (possibly as a
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Nicole Kidman first discussed adapting Liane Moriarty's The Last Anniversary in 2019, near the end of the pre-pandemic era. She was coming off the success of Big Little Lies, based on Moriarty's best-selling novel, followed by the whodunit thriller The Undoing, both of which
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One of the BBC's more surprising hits during the lockdown era was Showtrial, a five-episode series that, while not particularly subtle in its themes, was a propulsively watchable legal drama, diving into the kind of case that gets called "Trial of the Century," even when
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Streamers Sundance Now and Acorn TV are joining forces to bring the seven-part British sci-fi horror series The Midwich Cuckoos to the U.S. just in time for spooky season. Based on the perennially popular 1957 John Wyndham novel of the same name, the show originally aired on
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Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale, the Sundance Now (and AMC+) original series based on the VV James novel Sanctuary, will return for a second season. The surprise announcement came in mid-August 2024, over six months since the show's original January debut. Despite the tiny viewership numbers
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When TV drama series focus on hot-button issues, there is a tendency to distill things into a simple formula. One side is Good, the other Bad; we are supposed to root for the former. Even amid prestige TV's height, with anti-heroes all the rage, someone is
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If you’re looking for a sexy, BIPOC-led, mile-a-minute witch series set in present-day North England – something audiences should always be looking for at all times – you could do a lot worse than Domino Day: Lone Witch. The six-part first season (a second season has
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Witchy BBC Three supernatural drama Domino Day will make its way to America this month on Sundance Now and AMC+. The series, which is being rebranded Domino Day: Lone Witch for its U.S. debut in order to give audiences a more immediate understanding of what the show is about,
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The Western Australian series Scrublands is officially coming back for a second season, as Australian streaming service Stan releases the first image now that filming is underway. Based on Chris Hammer’s debut novel of the same name, the series was one of those lost in the niche streaming services
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Showtrial made a huge splash when it debuted in the fall of 2021 on the BBC. The five-part series had a relatively simple premise: every few years, a new "Crime of the Century" grips the nation, so instead of waiting for the next major trial to hit