Acorn TV
Happy Murdoch Mysteries Day for all who celebrate. The show's current season (Season 18) debuted in October 2024 on the CBC in Canada and on the little-watched cable channel Ovation in the U.S. (which has a free streamer that viewers can find, where all episodes have been
Acorn TV
AMC Networks will face its first reckoning of 2025 in mid-February, when the final numbers come in for 2024, and the parent company of the little federation of streaming services headed up by AMC+ has to admit if its strategy is working. (Signs aren't good, but we live
Acorn TV
Murdoch Mysteries’ eighteen seasons may seem paltry next to shows like the U.K.’s Midsomer Murders (Season 25) or Silent Witness (Season 28). However, on this side of the pond, it’s nearly legendary as Canada’s longest-running scripted one-hour drama series. The period mystery series first debuted in
Acorn TV
We're a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and 2025 looks like it's about to become a cultural tipping point in most significant areas of Western life. One of those places is the entertainment landscape: Paramount+ will be sold to Skydance, Netflix just yanked
AMC/AMC+
Most Americans are unaware of the Sky series Gangs of London, despite the show initially debuting five years ago in April 2020 and now gearing up to debut its third season in March 2025. While not nearly as egregious as, say, Rogue Heroes being lost on MGM+, from its first
BBC America
David Attenborough’s new series, Planet Earth: Asia (simply titled Asia in the U.K.), is a thrilling, gorgeous paean to the earth’s largest continent. Four years in the making, Asia explores the continent in depth for the first time, including its thousands of miles of coastline, three oceans,
Starz
It hasn't even been a whole month since the start of 2025, and already, there are streaming services that are desperately trying not to be the next to collapse in the face of a changing entertainment landscape. January kicked off with two of the most vulnerable companies still
Acorn TV
Just under a year ago, the New Zealand-set detective series A Remarkable Place to Die was launched at the 2024 London Screenings, alerting most TV executives to its existence. The four feature-length-episode limited series, made by Screentime New Zealand with Real Film Berlin, was already destined for TVNZ and ZDF,
Sundance Now
For all that Sundance Now and the little federation of small-time streaming services it dwells among with its AMC Nertwork's brethren, it is a valuable platform, as is Acorn TV, which is why it is so irritating that both streaming services are consistently undermarketed. BritBox, after all, has
Acorn TV
We are a full quarter of the way into the 21st century. However, not everyone is quick to embrace the future, not even in television, even though most would assume those who work with filming tech would be the first to adopt any new technology bandwagon. Murdoch Mysteries is a
AMC/AMC+
Sharon Horgan's Bad Sisters is one of the closest things Apple TV+ has to a hit comedy since Ted Lasso ended. However, it's far from Horgan's first show or her first to cross the pond to America. Horgan moved into producing in 2014, and
Sundance Now
The dark comedy series The Dry is one of those shows that's survived a lot of upheaval as the U.K. streaming wars have forced British production studios and platforms to figure out where they stand. Unlike America, where our broadcast networks are all commercial, and their ratings