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Masterpiece's regular lineup was delayed in 2021 due to ongoing lockdowns and shutdowns related to the coronavirus pandemic, causing most of the familiar titles fans know and love to debut in the latter half of the year. That left room in spring and summer for a few experimental
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Noel Fielding was already a known comedian in the U.K., famous for being part of the sketch comedy troupe The Mighty Boosh, though anglophilic Americans probably knew him best from his role on The IT Crowd. But it was Channel 4 tapping him as part of The Great British
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Despite what you may have heard, Netflix is not dead. The streaming service is still head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to a subscriber user base, and though the vast majority of its ~60 originals that it churns out every month may be utter junk, it is
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Admittedly, many American Anglophiles likely have a rather idyllic conception of Britain's National Health Service. It's true, the NHS is probably a model for the kind of open-door health system that many of us wish we had here in the United States, but because we often
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Prime Video's latest comedy The Outlaws is one part crime caper and one part heartwarming found family romp. The six-part series follows the story of seven strangers assigned to work together in the same Bristol community payback group as part of their sentencing for the various petty crimes
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Perhaps the reason that Prime Video seems to have struggled with how to market its new crime caper The Outlaws is that it's a show that isn't anything like what you'd expect it to be. (In the best possible ways.) The six-episode series, which
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British TV comedy has a long history and a serious fandom. From Monty Python to Red Dwarf, the mere phrase "British comedy" comes with weighty lineage and a reputation to uphold. Even newer shows like The Office and Fleabag leave long shadows that other series have to fight
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Disney+ recently made a radical adjustment to its programming standards in the U.S., putting serious parental controls in for the first time. Now a second radical change is coming to the streaming service, in the form of British programming mainstream audiences might actually want to watch, starting with a
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Catherine Tate became a household name in America due to her one-two punch of starring as a Doctor Who companion and then on the U.S. remake of The Office. Before that, she was a major star in the U.K., due to the success of The Catherine Tate Show.
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Prime Video has set the official U.S. airdate for The Outlaws, a comedy about a disparate group of criminals thrown together while competing a community service assignment. (Think Misfits, but without the whole addition suddenly they all get superpowers thing.) Set in Bristol, the six-episode first season follows the
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The HBO Max comedy Starstruck was one of the best series on television in 2021, albeit one that far too few people have actually seen. The frothy, Notting Hill-esque rom-com follows the story of a struggling millennial named Jessie (Rose Matafeo) whose life is thrown into chaos when her handsome
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The French comedy Call My Agent! debuted in October 2015 and became a bigger hit than initially anticipated. The series stars Camille Cottin, Thibault de Montalembert, Grégory Montel, and Liliane Rovère as four talent agents, Andréa, Mathias, Gabriel, and Arlette. The team runs the company ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr), juggling