BritBox
Your mileage may vary on whether you think that right now --- in the wake of the political DEI backlash and the spiraling of the #MeToo movement --- is the moment to release what is essentially a workplace dramedy about cancel culture. Not to mention one that hails from Steven
Movies
The calendar gods (and Sony Pictures) have given us all the greatest gift of 2025 — the third cinematic adventure of Paddington Bear. Paddington in Peru is the very much needed and appreciated next chapter about the life and times of this very kind bear with a marmalade sandwich habit. This
PBS
One of the biggest series of 2023 in the U.K. was the BBC series The Gold. Initially imagined as a limited series, the six-part small-screen dramatization of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery was a star-studded affair, full of PBS favorites, as is befitting of a show that retold the
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first few months of the year are a slog. Don't believe me? A U.K. psychologist came up with a whole formula to prove that January 24 is the most depressing day of the year, thanks to the combination of
BritBox
BritBox has snapped up the buzzy ITV comedy drama Douglas Is Cancelled for its spring line-up, the latest project from former Doctor Who and Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat, which aims to explore sexism, professional gender politics, social media, and cancel culture. It arrives at a timely moment when it seems
PBS
For the second time in 2024, there is good news on the streaming wars front, as those succeeding services start pulling away from those that will not. As I recently noted in our Gangs of London Season 3 post, this is a frustrating time for TV fans when series that
Movies
Before the advent of streaming, TV and movies ran on a cycle. Networks produced new episodes of their shows from September to May, with a long holiday break and summers off. Movies dropped their blockbusters at the top of the summer and mid-July, with the awards bait arriving from September
Showtime
Paramount may not last too much longer under the current configuration as Skydance finishes the long process of merging the two companies. But until then, Paramount+ will continue randomly debuting series greenlit by those who have long since been fired or counting the days until they join those ranks. Most
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Paddington Bear, the star of the best franchise in theaters in the 2010s, is finally back on the big screen after a seven-year absence in the first trailer for Paddington in Peru. It’s a Cinderella story of family films; when BBC Films said they were resurrecting the country’s
Apple TV
Hitch up your skirts and saddle your ponies; Dick Turpin rides at... well, not dawn; he's a man who likes breakfast and also travels during reasonable hours. However, despite his inability to be an early bird (who wants to eat worms anyway?), the entirely SEO-unfriendly The Completely Made-Up
Movies
The problem with writing about the forthcoming third Downton Abbey movie is that there's not much to write about. The newest installment of what has become a surprisingly long-lived feature film series since the first Downton Abbey movie was a blockbuster in 2019 began filming in the waning
ITV
ITV has released a first look at its upcoming comedy-drama series Douglas Is Cancelled, a star-studded show with an impeccable pedigree and a seriously questionable premise. In the year of our Lord 2024, do we really need a workplace comedy-drama about cancel culture? We're all about to find