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January 2025 has already had a very rough start. Destructive California wildfires, the death of creative legends, tech bros gone wild, freezing cold snaps ... Can Punxsutawney Phil just see his shadow now so there’s a mass excuse for us all to hide in our “burrows” for six more weeks?
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After a disappointing debut, streaming service MGM+ announced it wouldn't bring its Bernard Cornwell adaptation The Winter King back for a second season. This news probably didn't register for that many people at the time, given how few likely even knew MGM+ existed, let alone that
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Fear not, Sam Heughan fans. Just as the Starz drama Outlander Season 7, Part 2 comes to a close, Heughan’s contemporary domestic thriller, The Couple Next Door, will debut on Starz. Loosely adapted from the Dutch series New Neighbours, the six-part series first aired at the end of 2023
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“A fully-developed bromance” flourishing as they face “trying to solve a major crime at the end of the Austrian Empire.” That’s how Vienna Blood star Juergen Maurer describes the relationship between his character, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, and Dr. Max Liebermann as the pre-Great War mystery series’s fourth (and
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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