Movies
Everyone is familiar with William Tell, but few probably know much about him beyond the often-repeated story about the time he shot an arrow through an apple on top of his son's head. Somehow, the bit where that whole thing actually sparked a battle for Swiss independence seems
Starz
Period drama The Serpent Queen wrapped up its second season with an uber-dramatic and exceptionally bloody final installment that featured everything from a surprise pregnancy and a forced wedding to literal mass murder. "All Saints Day" is the sort of audacious, over-the-top storytelling that this show does best,
Netflix
Political thriller The Diplomat was one of Netflix's most unexpected hits in 2023. It was a welcome throwback-style drama that mixed the fast-paced dialogue of The West Wing with the political twists and turns of something like Homeland. The series stars Emmy winner Keri Russell (The Americans) as
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
BBC Newsnight's 2019 interview with England's Prince Andrew is rightly remembered as one of modern media's greatest trainwrecks. An hour-long conversation in which the prince was grilled about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and questioned about his own relationship with a
Movies
For all that it's been around for thousands of years at this point, the institution of the Catholic Church is still fascinating to many people. The Church has centuries of tradition behind it, from the colors of the vestments priests wear on particular Sundays to the prayers that
The CW
Our first look at Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) in the forthcoming historical true crime drama Joan is technically more Queen of Crime than Queen in the North, but there's no doubt that this six-part drama is one of the most intriguing British imports headed to American shores
PBS
It’s the series finale of COBRA and the final installment of Season 3’s Rebellion. In short, anything that could happen now... will. Hang on to your hats; this overstuffed episode includes big explosions inside and outside Downing Street. We pick up where we left off at the end
Paramount+
Paramount+ is prepping to drop a Curfew for the autumn of 2024. The series, which is one of the few commissioned after parent company Paramount Global, axed 95% of its in-progress slate of U.K. programming, is based on the novel After Dark by Jayne Cowie, set in a dystopian
Apple TV
The only good thing about the television industry essentially throwing the entire concept of a "limited series" out the window is that sometimes, if we're lucky, a really, really good show gets a second lease on life. Such is the case with Apple TV+'s
Disney/Hulu
Steven Knight's wildly popular Peaky Blinders changed the period drama genre, adding gritty realism and unapologetic violence to the world of a Birmingham gang family's rise to power in 1920s England. The show was so successful it ran for six seasons and has spawned a feature
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
As almost every viewer knows by now, the streaming world is a cruel mistress. From Netflix to Prime Video to Disney+, there's a veritable graveyard of promising original series gone too soon, ditched before they could find an audience. The past year or so has been ruthless in
BritBox
Whether you know it or not, you've probably heard about Britain's infamous Mitford sisters before. The family, which contained everything from Nazis and communists to journalists and satirists, was essentially the reality TV stars of their day, and the antics of the six Mitford sisters have