Apple TV
His Dark Materials star Simone Kirby has joined the sprawling cast of Apple TV+’s still untitled adaptation of Edith Wharton’s classic The Buccaneers. Kirby is probably best known to American audiences for her role as scientist Dr. Mary Malone in the second season of HBO’s Phillip Pullman
Apple TV
Even though the first season of the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses just premiered on the streamer back in April of 2022, its second will be hitting our screens before the holidays and promising to go even more significant than ever before, featuring more personal threats within MI-5 and potentially
Netflix
When Netflix initially announced its streaming offerings for October, the buzzy British drama Inside Man was listed, with a release date of TBD. (Likely because the show was still airing in the U.K. at the time.) But, with the drama's conclusion on BBC One, we now know
Drama
Though cable network BBC America is still a key resource for Anglophiles given that it's the American broadcast home of Doctor Who, its influence has been waning in recent years as more and more streamers enter the crowded marketplace and almost all seem to be offering some kind
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
The second episode of Miss Scarlet & the Duke Season 2 has a little bit of everything: Eliza telling a group of judgy society women about themselves, Hattie getting the chance to help out on a case, a dash of Victorian-era history, and a satisfying mystery that's not
Drama
Filming is officially underway on the seventh season of the popular Starz drama Outlander, a time-traveling period romance based on the books by Diana Gabaldon. For those who don't know, the series follows the story of Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe), a World War II nurse who is transported
Drama
Far too many fans of period drama fans slept on Black Sails, a series that technically served as a prequel of sorts to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island but mainly was a rollicking period adventure set during the Golden Age of Pirates during the early eighteenth
BritBox
Though most Americans are probably familiar with the work of actress (and likely future Dame) Keeley Hawes from either the megapopular Netflix thriller Bodyguard in which she had positively smoking chemistry with co-star Richard Madden or the cozy PBS drama The Durrells in Corfu, where she took us on a
AMC/AMC+
The twin projects based on the life of British-naturalised Russian defector Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko, who was allegedly killed by radiation poisoning the Russian government, now have American homes. The Benedict Cumberbatch starrer, Londongrad, had one from the initial announcement, with HBO working with Orwell Productions. Despite the Discovery+ merger turbulence
Drama
PBS Distribution has acquired the rights to the buzzy French costume drama Marie Antoinette, an eight-part series that aims to take a more modern, feminist approach to the story of one of history's most infamous women, whom popular culture most often tends to remember as either a frivolous
AMC/AMC+
Although we have been gifted with several fantastic period dramas over the past few years (Bridgerton, The Spanish Princess, Becoming Elizabeth, Sanditon, Belgravia) for some reason, most of them tend to say firmly planted in one of a handful of time periods. Tudor England is always popular, with its misogynist
The Serpent Queen
Episode 5 of The Serpent Queen opens as Catherine de Medici and her favored maid Rahima stroll in the forest. In fitting with the series’ fairytale themes, the forest is so often the place where bad things happen, and where supernatural beings roam. Rahima spots a man, or a creature,