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TV loves a maverick crime solver. ABC has a hit with High Potential, which finds cleaning woman Morgan Gillory (Kaitlin Gillory) using her extraordinary IQ and memory retention to solve crimes in Los Angeles. Over at CBS, the title character in Elsbeth (Carrie Preston), leverages her quirky powers of observation
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Unlike the U.S., which stretches 3000 miles across (not counting the extra non-contiguous states), the U.K. still can create monocultural dominance in their entertainment ecosystem on the regular, with series like The Great British Baking Show and Mr. Bates vs the Post Office able to pull in double-digit
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Left Bank Pictures made its name as the studio that pitched and sold The Crown to Netflix in 2014. But the streaming service that once took swings at prestige glory by greenlighting six seasons, sight-unseen, of ripped-from-the-headlines royal drama has changed in the last decade. While an Edward-based Crown spinoff
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We haven’t even reached the Spring Equinox yet, and David Mitchell is already having a great 2025, with one brand-new murder mystery series set to debut as he’s shooting episodes for another new series, an as-yet-untitled sketch comedy show with his longtime collaborator Robert Webb. Ludwig will arrive
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BritBox and ITV have released a selection of first-look images from the first season of the new crime thriller Code of Silence. First announced in mid-2024, the groundbreaking series may sound like a middle-of-the-road spy caper, but the "Silence" in the title refers not to secrecy but to
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I don't know about the rest of the world, but I did not hear the word "peri-menopause" until I was already north of 35; since crossing the invisible boundary into early cronehood, all of these symptoms no one ever bothered to mention suddenly started showing up.
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The BBC has finally announced the return date for Beyond Paradise, the successful spinoff series of Death in Paradise, where former St. Marie detective DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) solves crimes much closer to home in Shipton Abbott in Devon, where his partner-in-life Martha Lloyd (Sally Bretton) hails from. After
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As a show rolling into its 62nd year, Doctor Who has a few singular issues due to its long run. The most obvious is the number of seasons, as the program has started over with Season 1 twice since its original 1963 debut; slightly less well known is the "
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The current rage in TV dramas seems to fall into one of two categories: post-apocalyptic-style survival or pre-apocalyptic paranoia. The former is defined by shows like The Last Of Us starring future OBE Bella Ramsay; the latter by Severance, where whatever the hell is going on, you certainly aren'
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The collapse of Paramount, once a production studio so mighty its name was shorthand for the Supreme Court case that broke up the studio system, has primarily manifested in the U.S. in not-so-obvious ways. They're all small-time complaints that add to a portrait of dysfunction and incompetence,
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In 2013, actor Sir David Suchet hung up the mustache and accent and retired from the role of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot after twenty-five years of playing the character on screen. However, his enthusiasm for the Queen of Crime, author Agatha Christie (1890–1976) has never dimmed, and a decade
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Douglas is Cancelled, the new four-part series premiering on BritBox, is not the show you are expecting. It’s billed as a treatise on social media's capricious and damaging nature. Instead, it is the “me too” experience brought to horrific life. It is a blistering condemnation of what