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The Ipcress File was a smash hit when it debuted on ITV in March 2022, holding its own in the ratings against Peaky Blinders' final season. Fans have known for a while that the series had been picked up over here by AMC Networks and was planned for a
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When Orphan Black premiered in March 2013 on BBC America, it was not expected to be a significant hit. The Canadian series starring the then little-known actress Tatiana Maslany was presented as a contemporary series about a British con artist living in Toronto named Sarah Manning. In a time when
Comedy
British TV comedy has a long history and a serious fandom. From Monty Python to Red Dwarf, the mere phrase "British comedy" comes with weighty lineage and a reputation to uphold. Even newer shows like The Office and Fleabag leave long shadows that other series have to fight
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Peaky Blinders' sixth and final season may be the big Sunday night series on the BBC right now. However, it's got up-and-coming competition as ITV has debuted The Ipcress File opposite it, the new series based on the Len Deighton novel, which became a global bestseller after
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The rise of prestige TV has mirrored the comeback of genre shows, especially in the wake of the success of Game of Thrones. At first, it was just a spate of British (or British-esque) fantasy series adaptations, from Outlander to His Dark Materials, but as the 2020s go on, the
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AMC Networks announced this week that its crime drama Kin will officially return for a second season. The first season of the gangland saga aired on premium service AMC+ in the Fall of 2021 and was one of the platform's biggest new series launches of the year, earning
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As the TV year takes shape, it's time for several series from across the pond that weren't cross-pond co-productions to find homes on American broadcast and streaming. The latest pair is The Suspect and Showtrial, a couple of titles from ITV Studios, which will come over
Mystery
Happy Valley Season 2 aired back in 2016, two years after the show's initial debut on the BBC. The series, which stars Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango in Halifax) as Sgt Catherine Cawood and James Norton (Grantchester) as the man who raped her daughter and drove her to suicide,
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When ITV announced in 2020 it was remaking the 1965 film The Ipcress File into a TV series, it was one of the hottest announcements in a cold year for both film and TV. Based on Len Deighton's 1962 debut novel The IPCRESS File, the original film starred
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AMC+ is still part of the upstart set of services that arrived in the second wave of the streaming wars. However, its niche seems to be British-set dramas, fantasy shows about vampires, and the occasional insistence The Walking Dead is still relevant. (Spoiler alert, not so much on that last
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For the better part of 500 years, we've been obsessed with the story of Anne Boleyn. Queen of England in her own right, her life is largely remembered for the facts of her death - and her inability to give her insane husband King Henry VIII a male
Sci-Fi
All good things must come to an end, and such is the case for supernatural romance A Discovery of Witches. The popular fantasy romance, which follows the story of forbidden love between a vampire and a witch, will return for its final run of episodes in January of 2022, joining