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In the new Peacock limited series Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, actor Colin Firth (The Staircase) takes on the challenge of portraying Dr. Jim Swire, the grieving father and tireless advocate for justice in the aftermath of the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which killed 243 passengers,
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From antiquity to the Blitz, monarchs to suffragists, presenter Lucy Worsley’s British history expertise knows no bounds. Though she began her career as a curator and inspector of historic buildings, her passion for making history accessible to the public landed her first documentary appearance in 2009’s Inside the
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A second season seemed unlikely when Bad Sisters ended in 2022. Based on the Belgian series Clan (retitled The Out Laws for U.K. audiences), which only aired a single season when it was released on the Flemish language network VTM, the Garvey sisters had banded together to help the
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Acorn TV’s new three-part crime drama Inspector Ellis is in the classic mold of engrossing, emotionally nuanced series such as Morse and Dalgleish, with the welcome and long-overdue update of being led by a Black woman. Veteran stage and screen actress Sharon D Clarke (Doctor Who) brings a compelling
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BritBox’s Passenger is a difficult series to quantify. A cross-genre mash-up that blends a slow-burn mystery with small-town politics and the sort of high-tension horror that makes you nervous to turn your lights off at night, it’s an ambitious project that aims to do more than simply tell
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It seems safe to say that BritBox’s Passenger is unlike almost any other television show that’s aired this year. The six-part series hails from Andrew Buchan, probably best known to Anglophiles as grieving father Mark Latimer in the crime drama Broadchurch. But his debut screenplay couldn’t be
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Our reintroduction to the world of Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) in Moonflower Murders, the follow-up to Magpie Murders, brings brand new characters into the mix, and perhaps none is more memorable than Madeline Cain, played to perky perfection by Pippa Bennett-Warner. In the story within a story, Miss Cain inhabits
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Whether you read his books or were introduced to shows he created like Collision or Foyle’s War, Anthony Horowitz is a name you should recognize. His early YA titles led to writing the explosively popular teen spy series known as the Alex Rider novels, which he later adapted to
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There's a new jewel thief in town, and she's not afraid to take you for all you are worth. Joan is based on a true story and introduces the world to Joan Hannington (Sophie Turner) – if you haven't read the real-life Joan's
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"Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" takes on new meaning in the upcoming ITV and CW drama Joan. Sophie Turner stars in the co-production that will begin airing on CW in October 2024, starring as Joan Hannington, a 1980s-ra mother-turned-jewel thief. The series starts when Joan
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Cush Jumbo, who starred in The Good Wife, its spin-off The Good Fight, and most recently Criminal Record, tackles a completely different role in her new podcast Origins with Cush Jumbo: She plays herself. But it’s not as unlikely a career turn as one might think. “I’m a
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In the course of Trigger Point’s second season, bomb disposal officer Lana (Vicky McClure) saw the love of her life fall to his death, a woman with a bomb collar around her neck explode seconds before Lana could save her, and terrorists plant a bomb in her parents’ house.