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With Doctor Who's much-ballyhooed move to the greener ($$$) pastures of Disney+, Luther decamping for Netflix, and Holby City and many soaps older favorites now on BritBox, there have been few reasons to pay attention to BBC America. Sure, it still has fantastic nature content — Attenborough and Planet Earth
Sundance Now
Almost everyone has heard of Jack the Ripper, the Victorian murderer who killed five women in the Whitechapel district of London in the late 1800s. But relatively few people probably know much about the notorious killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper, whose name is a nod to the infamous murderer
Acorn TV
Harry Wild was perhaps the least likely series to be a breakout hit for Acorn TV. Starring Jane Seymour, a British actress best known for her role as an American in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, this extremely formulaic cozy mystery did not seem like it was primed for take-off, especially
BBC America
David Attenborough was already an institution unto himself when he was originally knighted in 1985 after his groundbreaking documentary series Life series became a breakout hit on the BBC and PBS in the early 1980s. He then redoubled that place in history with his second groundbreaking series, Planet Earth, not
Sundance Now
Sundance Now first announced its forthcoming original series Far North back in September 2022, the same time AMC+ announced it was putting VV James’ Sanctuary into preproduction. At the time, both were slated for 2023 and perhaps, unsurprisingly, that was a little ambitious. Sanctuary debuted the first week of January
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Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale is at the halfway point of the season, and already there have been major revelations about the ugliness of the town hiding beneath the surface. While the facts coming to light are enough to make one's hair stand on end, perhaps the
AMC/AMC+
It's been nearly two years since Americans have heard anything about the star-studded Irish series Kin, Peter McKenna's gangland drama about the Kinsella clan and matriarch Amanda's (Maria Doyle Kennedy) success coup to bring down drug lord Eamon Cunningham (Ciaran Hinds) after his men
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AMC+'s shows about contemporary magic have been headlined by adaptations of the American Anne Rice novels Interview with a Vampire and Mayfair Witches. But the European old world is where many of those tales originate from, so it's not surprising that the latest offering, streaming jointly
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In Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, the small and affluent UK town of Sanctuary is rocked by the death of the most popular teen boy. The series explores grief, trauma, power, and fear against a backdrop where magic and witchcraft exist but are not entirely accepted. Magic is often used
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In the AMC+/Sundance Now limited series Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, the small UK town of Sanctuary is home to “registered” witch Sarah Fenn (Elaine Cassidy) in a reality where magic is real and witchcraft is regulated by the law. Based on the novel by V. V. James, a
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The top-rated BBC series Being Human, originally aired from 2008 until 2013, has finally found its way to streaming, first on BritBox and now on AMC+. Created by Toby Whithouse, whose earlier work included 2001's Bridget Jones’ Diary, the creative team originally intended the series to be about
Sundance Now
Witch hunts, whether literal or figurative, are based on generally fear. Fear of the other, of the non-Christian, fear of anything that's too different or strange. And, historically, whether we're talking about 14th century Europe or 17th century America, they're almost always about women.