All Creatures Great and Small
It's official: We'll once again be headed back to the picturesque Yorkshire Dales this winter for a brand new season of All Creatures Great and Small. This news is unlikely to come as a surprise to most viewers, who have essentially adopted the popular period drama
Acorn TV
Acorn TV’s The Chelsea Detective is back for a second season, and the good news is that it’s better than ever. Season 2 still offers complex plots but features a tighter feel, fewer yawning holes, and a diverse cast that includes several much-loved stars of British TV, all
Drama
it's official: We'll be heading back to Granite Harbour for another round of crime-solving next year. The popular Scotland-set police procedural starring Romario Simpson (Small Axe) and Hannah Donaldson (Annika) has been renewed for a second season. The series' first installment follows the story of
Starz
One of the best parts of British television is that, eventually, all of your faves are going to work with one another. It's just the nature of the business — that ongoing joke about there only being a dozen actors at work in the U.K. at any given
Showtrial
In recent years, anthology series have become increasingly popular. From prestige offerings like The White Lotus to teen juggernauts like Freeform's Cruel Summer and crime dramas like True Detective, it's a format with flexibility baked into its very DNA. They allow networks and streamers to keep
The Gilded Age
Julian Fellowes' ambitious American-set period drama The Gilded Age is finally set to return this Fall, dropping us back into the highly entertaining (and seemingly neverending) battle between the old money snobs and nouveau richer strivers of late-nineteenth-century New York. And while Fellowes' American answer to Downton Abbey
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
We all support women's rights. But sometimes, it's an awful lot of fun to support women's wrongs. This seems to be the basic theory behind Prime Video's upcoming revenge thriller Wilderness, which sees a betrayed wife contemplate how best to punish the
BritBox
BritBox has scooped up two series for Fall 2023. One is The Sixth Commandment, a critically-acclaimed hit from the BBC; the other, This England, is a highly-anticipated title heading to Sky UK. Both come headlined by some of the biggest names in British acting, with Timothy Spall (Spencer) and Anne
World On Fire
It's been four years since the first season of World War II drama World on Fire premiered, promising to reinvent the way we tell stories of the war by focusing on the day-to-day lives of the ordinary people fighting, dying, and trying to survive during it. Its sprawling
PBS
When Hotel Portofino was initially announced in the spring of 2022 as coming to PBS, it was billed as a sort of Downton Abbey on the Italian coast, with an upper-class British family escaping the dreary post-World War I landscape up north to open a luxury hotel in the series&
Classics Revisited
When considering the basic idea of a period drama, there are a few obvious examples that pretty much everyone cites as the pinnacle of the genre, series which stand as the ultimate ideal of what these sorts of historical stories are supposed to be and do. The original Brideshead Revisited.
Movies
As of this writing, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are ongoing, but awards season is still on, with hopes that by the time the red carpets roll out in January 2024, there will be stars to walk them. The unofficial kick-off of awards season begins with the back-to-back international film