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This installment of Hotel Portofino picks up where last week's episode left off, with Billy's injured friend relocated from the kitchen to an outbuilding. Anish is called upon in a medical capacity; Constance beckoned to tend to the wounded man. A thunderstorm has whipped up, and
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Time has indeed run out for The Time Traveler's Wife. HBO has announced that their prestige adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's best-selling novel will not be getting a Season 2, news that likely comes as a major disappointment to some given that its supposedly "limited"
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Several months after it last aired an episode, ITV announced that its heartwarming series The Larkins will officially return for a second season. The show's first outing was a reasonably decent ratings hit for the U.K. network, averaging around 4 million viewers an episode, with even more
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With the rise of the hit Line of Duty, and Jed Mercutio's Hat Trick Productions pumping out fast-paced police procedurals to great acclaim, it's little wonder the U.K. airwaves may feel a little dominated by law enforcement cases and crime stories. These shows always seek
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If it feels like we've covered Apple TV+ a lot in the past few weeks, it's because we have. The streaming service is rapidly becoming a destination location for fans of British and British-adjacent entertainment content: Hot on the heels of the conclusion of its very
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Despite the rush of romance to streaming in the wake of Bridgerton, real-life LGBTQ+ love stories are still few and far between in the mainstream. Besides shows like Gentleman Jack on HBO, most are content to stick with fictionalized series like Heartstopper or Love, Victor. But Amazon is going all
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Hotel Portofino opens with a surprising reveal. Hotel proprietress Bella and her husband Cecil have engaged in some marital activity the night before. While Mr. Ainsworth seems quite pleased with their evening of passion and assumes all is forgiven, Bella is irritable and has misgivings about what, on her part,
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Netflix U.K.'s newest series will take on David Nicholl's hit novel, One Day. The 2009 romance, in which each chapter covers the same date in consecutive years over a twenty-year span, traces the romance between Dexter and Emma, who first hooked up in 1988. Over
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In recent months, Apple TV+ has slowly been upping its game regarding British and British-adjacent streaming content with shows like Slow Horses, Trying, and Ted Lasso (which feels made for Anglophiles, even if it's technically American.) The Tom Hiddleston-led The Essex Serpent was its first foray into period
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Jane Austen adaptations are a staple on PBS Masterpiece. Though Sanditon is the latest Austen story to hit it big thanks to public media, it's hardly the only one. From Mansfield Park (2008) to Sense & Sensibility (2008) and Northanger Abbey (1983 and 2007) to Emma (2009), it&
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ITV's crime drama, The Bay, initially premiered in 2019, centered around Detective Sergeant Lisa Armstrong (Morven Christie), a Family Liaison Officer (FLO) in the fictional West Lancashire Police Service. The six-part miniseries wasn't a massive hit, but the numbers were respectable enough that ITV eventually commissioned
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Doctor Who alum Jenna Coleman has compiled a wide-ranging resume since she left the TARDIS starring in everything from costume dramas (Victoria) to true-crime historicals (The Serpent), prestige dramas (The Cry), and high fantasy (Netflix's forthcoming The Sandman). But next up for her is something completely different: A