Paramount+
Though Jodie Whittaker officially turned over the keys to the TARDIS last fall, the actress isn't slowing down any after leaving the world of Doctor Who behind. She'll next star in the Paramount+ drama One Night, a hard-hitting mystery about female friendships and the three women
Peacock
Trigger Point was one of several British acquisitions picked up by Peacock in 2022 to expand its footprint in the streaming world. Had the streaming service a better edge in the market, the series could've been the breakthrough title the struggling service needed. Unfortunately, it didn't
BritBox
The Confessions of Frannie Langton is one of the most original period dramas you’ll watch this year. One part murder mystery, one part historical drama, and one part queer romance, it’s a series that touches on all manner of themes along the intersection of race, gender, class, and
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding's classic eighteenth-century novel Tom Jones: A Foundling is one of the first works of literature that can rightly be called a novel as modern readers understand it, yet its story is much less frequently adapted than stories by several of the later authors his work influenced,
MGM+
Julian Fellowes' follow-ups to Downton Abbey have struggled to follow in the wake of global success. Though Belgravia didn't spend a decade in development hell moving from platform to platform like The Gilded Age or attempt to make Americans care about English footballing history like The English
Drama
The BBC had a run of hit programming during the 2021-2022 TV season, with Vigil, The Tourist, Time, and The Responder all received as critical darlings with high viewer ratings. All four were renewed in a batch drop announcement in May 2022, despite both Time and The Tourist being designed
BritBox
It's possible, perhaps even likely, that you haven't heard of the period drama The Confessions of Frannie Langton, which arrives on BritBox in early March. But this four-part series may be one of the best shows — of any genre — you'll see on television this
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
It is a truth universally acknowledged within the entertainment industry that even the most "limited" sorts of limited series aren't necessarily so limited in most cases. (Even if it takes them a better part of a decade to return.) Particularly if they're based on
Apple TV
No genre may be more saturated with diplomatic anxieties than the spy thriller, and seven years since Britain voted to leave the European Union, lots of recent series have touched on the U.K.’s new standing in the continent. It makes sense why — it’s a genre featuring international
Call the Midwife
As springtime approaches, some things feel inevitable. The cherry blossoms are gearing up to bloom here in the D.C. area, your allergies are most likely gearing up to ruin your life wherever you happen to be living, and it's almost time for another season of the heartwarming
FX
Though Great Expectations is not Charles Dickens' most frequently adapted work --- that honor goes to A Christmas Carol, which has been dramatized and remixed countless times for virtually every medium and performance genre --- but it may well be the work whose original text American audiences are most
BritBox
The U.K. has homegrown celebrities who never make it to the U.S. market. Chief among them are footballers who easily reach U.K. A-list status but never bend it like David Beckham or marry up to someone like Victoria, the one-time pop sensation Posh Spice. Most marry childhood