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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-
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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-
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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
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The sheer number of U.S. streaming services can feel like a lot, from the big four (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, and HBO Max) to the mid-tier services (Hulu, Discovery+, BritBox, Acorn TV, and so forth), plus the little guys like the AMC niche offerings. However, the numbers
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Many people are probably passingly familiar with the story of British-naturalised Russian defector Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko, who was allegedly killed by radiation poisoning by the Russian government. Fewer are probably aware of the horrifically gruesome and painful way he died, the extended fallout from his alleged assassination, or the
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Many people are probably passingly familiar with the story of British-naturalised Russian defector Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko, who was allegedly killed by radiation poisoning by the Russian government. Litvinenko fled Russia with his family to the U.K. in 2000 after publicly accusing his superiors of, among other things, ordering
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Aidan Turner proved repeatedly during his time on the period drama Poldark that he could make the most stoic, closed-off leading man both appealing and sympathetic. Now that he’s finally left Nampara behind, he seems to be keen to branch out a bit as an actor, taking on
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The Irish comedy-drama The Dry first caught our attention last spring, debuting on the soon-to-be-defunct BritBox UK. (Don't worry, it's not going away-away, it's just being folded into ITVX.) Starring Roisin Gallagher (The Fall), the eight-episode limited series
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The twin projects based on the life of British-naturalised Russian defector Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko, who was allegedly killed by radiation poisoning the Russian government, now have American homes. The Benedict Cumberbatch starrer, Londongrad, had one from the initial announcement, with HBO working with Orwell Productions. Despite the Discovery+ merger
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Buzzy thriller The Suspect officially arrives in America next month on streamer Sundance Now, and if the first trailer is anything to go by, it's going to be a tense and twisty ride, asking us to question what we believe about the lead character we're watching.
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Sundance Now is one of the multiple niche titles under the larger AMC+ banner. It is part of the only streaming service that's diving up its content to serve micro-audiences rather than combine into a larger behemoth. It's also a bit of an oddity, as
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Given the plethora of streaming networks under the larger banner of AMC Networks, you might be forgiven for missing out on some of the service's more niche offerings, particularly when Acorn TV is already well known as a destination for British television fans. But, Anglophiles shouldn't