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Filming is underway for the next big collaboration between ITV and BritBox International, a crime thriller called Code of Silence. ITV initially commissioned the series in mid-2023 for its ITVX streaming service; BritBox boarded the project sometime between that initial announcement and the beginning of filming in October 2024, guaranteeing
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Friends, I’m at a loss as I write this recap. After Passenger’s sixth and final episode, I assumed series creator and writer Andrew Buchan had written it as a cliffhanger. But in a recent interview with TellyVisions, Buchan described it as a limited series (though he’d welcome
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BritBox’s Passenger is a difficult series to quantify. A cross-genre mash-up that blends a slow-burn mystery with small-town politics and the sort of high-tension horror that makes you nervous to turn your lights off at night, it’s an ambitious project that aims to do more than simply tell
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It seems safe to say that BritBox’s Passenger is unlike almost any other television show that’s aired this year. The six-part series hails from Andrew Buchan, probably best known to Anglophiles as grieving father Mark Latimer in the crime drama Broadchurch. But his debut screenplay couldn’t be
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ITV is wrapping up Vera with Season 14, ending the series based on the Ann Cleeves novels after fifteen years. But over on the BBC, the other Cleeves adaptation, Shetland, is still going strong despite having a rough few years since the pandemic hit. Filming delays pushed the series, which
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A dangerous game is afoot in Chadder Vale as we reach Passenger’s midpoint. Mehmet is dead, and Riya – who never claimed to be perfect and spends a not-inconsiderable amount of time showing those imperfections – refuses to let it go. She’s in the right; it’s not a suicide,
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Most of the time, the BBC and ITV make producing a hit police procedural look easy. Cast a few handsome white men as emotionally troubled mid-level cops, and then force them to confront whatever version of the world you subscribe to, whether it's the AC-12 in Line of
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ITV announced in early 2024 that Season 14 of the long-running mystery series Vera would be the final installment of the popular U.K. whodunit. Starring Brenda Blethyn as the titular DCI Vera Stanhope, the series is an adaptation of Ann Cleeves' mystery novels of the same name, conceived
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Welcome to Chadder Vale, a remote town surrounded by forest in the Lancashire hills (that’s The North, for those readers & viewers who aren’t full sickos on the topic of UK geography)! Sure, Chadder Vale experiences unexplained cold snaps seemingly year-round; the forest is extremely menacing and full
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Season 3 of The Tower concludes with a tense, thrilling episode in which Operation Perseus finally gets underway. However, first, there is the little matter of Tia’s kidnapping, which concluded last week’s installment. DS Sarah Collins is sent to Loretta’s, traumatized by Kingfisher’s brutal home invasion.
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Rumors have swirled since June 2024 about a possible reboot of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. It took until October, but the BBC and BritBox have finally released an update. The new series, Lynley, is officially heading to TV in 2025 as production begins in Ireland. Based on the Lynley Mysteries
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It's been about a month since Trigger Point Season 2 concluded on BritBox, the second season to stream on the niche British streaming service after Season 1 arrived in early 2024. Season 1 was imported directly from where it has been lost on Peacock since 2021; Season 2