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BritBox to Milk the Cadbury Story in New Drama ‘Chocolate Wars’
We're Flake girls around here, so BritBox's forthcoming period drama about the Cadbury family sounds delicious.
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UKTV's 'Hit Point' Looks Like a Rollicking Good Time
UKTV's newest police drama, 'Hit Point,' might not have a streaming home in the U.S., but we're willing to bet that will change.
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'Bergerac' Season 2 Begins Filming in Jersey, Still Has No U.S. Distributor
UKTV's decision to reboot the Jersey-set British detective series Bergerac turned out to be one of the smartest decisions it made in the 2020s so far, right alongside co-producing The Marlow Murder Club with PBS' Masterpiece. Marlow Murder wound up the most popular series debut in U&
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Will There Be More 'Jack Wright'? Shocking Finale Leaves Fans Hanging
The rise of "Prestige TV" has had multiple effects on the entertainment landscape, most of which have been positive developments. High-quality literature, some of which was never considered a possibility for TV adaptations prior to the successes of Game of Thrones and Outlander in the early 2010s, began
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'I, Jack Wright's Season Finale Pulls the Ultimate Bait & Switch
Well, well, well. The biggest surprise of the I, Jack Wright finale isn’t who killed the titular character. It’s that the whole thing ended with a “to be continued.” WHAT? Apparently, the greatest trick the devil (and Chris Lang) ever pulled was getting us to believe I, Jack
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The 'Bergerac' Trailer Puts the Detective on the Case
The 2015 reboot of Poldark turned out to be the leading edge of a wave of British remakes of TV series from the 1970s and 80s, many of which were broadcast on local PBS stations during the era when the PBS mothership didn't try to control what aired
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'Bergerac' Reboot Heads to U.K. TV in 2025
Older PBS viewers may remember Bergerac, the 1980s-era detective series that made Midsomer Murders' John Nettles a household name in the U.K. Like many British mysteries of the era, Bergerac wasn't an official PBS series, but with the popularity of Masterpiece Theater's Mystery! spinoff
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The First Images From 'Bookish' Introduce an Array of Colorful Crime Solving Characters
The first images are here from Bookish, the forthcoming Alibi series that's also a charmingly refreshing new entry in the long tradition of British crime dramas about people with normal day jobs who also help solve murders on the side. As the title indicates, this time around, the
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Paul McGann Joins Alibi's 'Bookish' As US Distribution Deal Nears
Bookish may be one of the most PBS-coded shows to come out of the U.K. The series, which stars PBS fan-favorites Mark Gatiss (Moonflower Murders) and Polly Walker (Bridgerton), focuses on a gay bookshop owner in post-war London who uses his love of reading (and his easy access to
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British Actors You Should Know: Michael Kitchen
We know him best as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, in the ITV drama Foyle's War, which ran for eight series between 2002 and 2015. But Michael Kitchen has performed in all sorts of roles, from the James Bond franchise to William Shakespeare, on radio, stage, and TV,
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Alibi Drama 'Bookish' Finalizes Cast as Filming Begins
Filming has officially begun on Bookish, the latest entry in the longstanding British mystery tradition of "people with increasingly random jobs who also help the police solve murders for fun". This one, perhaps the most perfectly imagined TV take on this concept yet, focuses on a gay bookshop
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Mark Gatiss Will Play a Bookshop Owner Who Solves Crimes in Alibi Drama 'Bookish'
It is a truth universally acknowledged that in the world of British drama, you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to solve crime. No, really; in many of the U.K.'s popular dramas, you don't need to be trained as a detective or honestly