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Most people know Cary Grant as the debonair romantic lead of such films as His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby or the famous scene of him chased by an airplane in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. But the British-American actor, born Archibald Alec Leach in January 1904,
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BritBox released the three-episode Murder In Provence back in February of 2022, but most viewers could be forgiven for missing it at the time. The year 2022 has been an overwhelming wave of television, and the all-at-once drop of the series meant it was only a blip on the radar.
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ITV's The Tower didn't make a big splash in the US when BritBox picked it up last December. But the three-part crime thriller drama was a critical darling, with the all-too-rare 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on Kate London's debut novel, Post
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When Robert Thorogood's British–French crime drama Death in Paradise debuted in 2011, Ben Miller, best known for Primeval, starred as the primary detective Detective Inspector Richard Poole. Poole arrived on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie to investigate the murder of a British police officer and
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ITV's crime drama, The Bay, initially premiered in 2019, centered around Detective Sergeant Lisa Armstrong (Morven Christie), a Family Liaison Officer (FLO) in the fictional West Lancashire Police Service. The six-part miniseries wasn't a massive hit, but the numbers were respectable enough that ITV eventually commissioned
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Until recently, getting TV series from across the pond usually meant imports from the U.K.'s two largest networks: the BBC and ITV. Since the proliferation of streaming services in recent years, the competition has caused American production studios to branch out to Channel 4, Channel 5, and
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Britbox has officially set the date for its next true crime original: The Barking Murders is set to arrive on the streaming service this June. The three-part drama tells the story of notorious Essex serial rapist and murderer Stephen Port, who drugged and killed four gay men in London in
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BritBox US has become more of an originals player in the past couple of years; however, the streaming service was initially conceived in 2016 as a way to provide legal British content directly to consumers who were already VPNing ITV and iPlayer in the states. It has always carried simulcasts
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The Queen's Jubilee doesn't officially take place until the weekend of June 2, 2022, the 70th anniversary of her coronation. But that hasn't stopped the U.K. from celebrating ever since Feb. 6 hit, the day Elizabeth II ascended the throne. It's
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With only a few days left in April, the final pieces of the May streaming schedules are coming together, with a slew of release dates for the coming month. It's a crowded schedule from shows like Ridley Road on May 1 to Pistol on May 31st, with movies
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When asked if I would be interested in writing about the most recent screen incarnation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? I jumped at the chance. The casting announcements alone made watching this mini-series must-see TV for me. What Anglophile wouldn’t want to
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BritBox only just started producing original content in mid-2020, but its shows are already making waves. From the initial four titles, including AMC's The Beast Must Die and PBS' upcoming Magpie Murders, these series star A-list British talent or are fan-driven favorites like the 2021 renewal of