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TV loves a maverick crime solver. You know the type. They aren’t officially a detective or on any police force. But somehow, they are experts on cracking the case. It’s not just a British trope either. Think ABC’s High Potential, where the cleaning woman with an extraordinarily
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TV is overflowing with detective dramas. Since the 2025-2026 TV season started at the end of May 2025, there has been Dept. Q and Untamed on Netflix; Ballard and Countdown on Prime Video; Code of Silence on Britbox; Smoke on AppleTV+... and that’s just the ones I can remember
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I have something a tad bit upsetting to share with you. It’s quite possible that you missed an entire TV series centered around Idris Elba as an action hero. It’s not entirely your fault. Hijack ran on AppleTV+ during the summer of 2023. As they say in the
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John le Carré's status as a (spy)master of espionage fiction has yet to be seriously challenged, not least because his 60-year writing career spanned one of the most eventful periods of international relations in human history – from the dawn of the '60s to the equally fractured
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This one’s for my fellow Hiddlestans! Care of an Apple TV+ free weekend, I spent six episodes of The Essex Serpent (2022) making googly eyes over Tom Hiddleston as Will Ransome, a married pastor trying to resist Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes). Based on Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel of
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The COVID-19 pandemic was a significant blow to the entertainment industry. From large-scale complications like multi-year production delays (or outright series cancellations) to subtler shifts in audience viewing habits, the repercussions are still echoing today. The long-term production delays meant networks had to adapt, whether shifting streaming-only hits to broadcast,
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I was a sitcom kid growing up. I snuck in my fair share of hour-long series when my parents weren’t looking. However, on reflection, most of what I gravitated towards were comedic, caper-based shows like Cheers, Golden Girls, Roseanne, and then eventually – thanks to PBS – Britcoms like Fawlty Towers,
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On paper, Mayflies is entirely straightforward, a weepy about two lifelong friends navigating a terminal cancer diagnosis in ways that are dignified, messy, and loving til the end. On-screen, it’s a revelation, a profoundly moving meditation on how the loves of our lives – romantic, platonic, familial — interweave with each
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It’s almost as challenging to describe There She Goes, an extraordinary show, as it is to watch. Full of black humor, anger, and sadness, it is brutally honest about the challenges of parenting a severely learning-disabled child while also being very funny. The husband-wife writing team of Shaun Pye
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Released by ITV in 2008 and originally aired on Ovation in the U.S., Lost in Austen has a terrific cast and is one of the most wacko and inventive Austen interpretations ever made. The four-part series was directed by Dan Zeff and adapted from Austen’s 1813 novel by
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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
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Editor's Note: Life is short, and Peak TV is vast. Our Better Late Than Never feature series is here to help us all catch up on some of the shows and movies we've probably all missed out on in the past year or two simply because