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In recent years, anthology series have become increasingly popular. From prestige offerings like The White Lotus to teen juggernauts like Freeform's Cruel Summer and crime dramas like True Detective, it's a format with flexibility baked into its very DNA. They allow networks and streamers to keep
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The Pact's first season initially debuted on BBC One in the spring of 2021. The six-part thriller series was billed as "Welsh Big Little Lies" at the time of its debut by critics, with Julie Hesmondhalgh (The Trouble with Maggie Cole), Laura Fraser (Traces), Eiry Thomas
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It's a truth universally acknowledged that often real life can be a whole lot stranger (and often much, much darker) than fiction. This, of course, is a big part of the reason that the true crime genre is so enduringly popular. And the story of Irish criminal and
The Dry
The Dry is officially back in production for Season 2. The Irish-based series, starring Roisin Gallagher (The Fall) as recovering alcoholic Shiv Sheridan, is a dark comedy that streamed in the U.S. on Sundance Now in 2022 and landed eight nominations at the Irish Film and Television Awards, including
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The Dry was one of those shows initially picked up by ITV for BritBox UK as a series but not for BritBox U.S. (It debuted here on Sundance Now and AMC+.) The series, written by Nancy Harris, was developed from Element for RTÉ One and funded by the Broadcasting
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Sundance Now first announced it was picking up Clean Sweep, an Irish thriller starring Charlene McKenna (Peaky Blinders), as part of the 2023 slate in September 2022. It was part of a larger announcement of series coming to this side of the pond, including SisterS, Totally Completely Fine, and Black
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Hailed as the Irish Fleabag, SisterS wants to be equal parts caustic, heartfelt, and subversive. But in stretching in so many directions, it flattens itself nearly one-dimensional. SisterS follows two half-sisters in their thirties on a road trip across Ireland in search of their absentee father. Younger sister Sare is
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Anyone with a sister (or a friend who feels like one) knows the power of a sister story. And the best remedy for a sister-less existence is to live vicariously through the silver screen. The trailer for the new comedy-drama series SisterS promises all the laughter, tears, frustration, and love
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As AMC Networks struggles to find its footing in the new entertainment landscape, its network of niche brands is finding strength in crossing their streams. AMC+ and horror streamer Shudder have been sharing movies, BBC America feeds AMC+ and AMC, the cable channel, and Acorn TV is letting everyone taste
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Streaming service Sundance Now has released a trailer for its upcoming cold case mystery-drama Black Snow, a six-part series that is described as one part whodunit and one part coming-of-age drama. Travis Fimmel (Vikings) as cold-case detective James Cormack, charged with investigating the 25-year-old murder of a high school student
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It’s usually been European, and U.K. production studios who have benefitted from the sudden run on content brought on by the streaming wars. The gaping maw of content suction must be fed. The BBC, ITV, Canal+, RTE, Channel 4, and others have all happily stepped up to co-produce
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As noted in our end-of-year streaming service round-up, looking forward to 2023, AMC Networks is changing how it approaches the streaming business. Unlike some of its competitors, like FX, it does not have a massive monopoly company behind it. Also, it did not create a single monolith destination for its