Movies
It was mid-March 2024 when Imelda Staunton broke the embargo on the third Downton Abbey film, confirming a third (and she claimed "final") movie was in the works. Staunton was not in the original show's cast, but her long-time husband, Jim Carter, starred as the butler,
BBC
If the Olympics are coming around again, then so are the inevitable questions: “Will there be more W1A to go with them?” The comedy series, which initially began as a one-off film Twenty-Twelve, a BBC Four mockumentary, following the BBC’s attempts at organizing the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,
Classics Revisited
After the success of their 1994 production of Middlemarch, director Tom Hooper collaborated with Andrew Davies on George Eliot’s last book, Daniel Deronda. Set in her present day, when it just happened that Britain had a flamboyantly Jewish prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, it was initially published as a magazine
Apple TV
The newest streaming comedy that wants to steal your heart (literally) is The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, not to be confused with any of the many preceding shows and movies that share its eponymous origins. Of course, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin isn’t wholly made-up.
Apple TV
The 2024 Winter Television Critics Association press tour kicked off on February 5, 2024, the first major TV presentation since the end of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023. Apple TV+ kicked off the event with a full slate of upcoming series and returning hits it had lined up
Apple TV
It's been nearly two years since Apple TV+ first announced Noel Fielding would be trading in on his American fame from hosting The Great British Baking Show to land a spot in the Apple TV+ roster of comedy shows. Though Fielding was known among British comedy aficionados for
Better Late Than Never
Released by ITV in 2008 and originally aired on Ovation in the U.S., Lost in Austen has a terrific cast and is one of the most wacko and inventive Austen interpretations ever made. The four-part series was directed by Dan Zeff and adapted from Austen’s 1813 novel by
Paramount+
Paramount+ had high hopes pinned to The Gold when it launched in September 2023. The streaming service had good reason to believe that, of the 50+ international dramas it had commissioned in the year since July 2022 when it announced it was aiming to appeal to a global market, this
Comedy
Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) and Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy) are set to star in Douglas Is Cancelled, a four-part dramedy series from former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat. Set in the world of television news, the series will explore cancel culture, gender politics and social media when a
Actors and Actresses
Talented British actor Hugh Bonneville’s most recent role is as Detective Brian Boyce in true-crime drama, The Gold, the latest BBC-Paramount co-production that led of Paramount+'s international slate. It’s a long way from Downton Abbey, but then Bonneville has never allowed himself to be typecast, although
Paramount+
Paramount+ is entering the world of international programming with a splash. The streamer, which is probably best known in the United States as the home of the Star Trek franchise and those number-named Yellowstone prequels, has been busy in recent months greenlighting all manner of foreign content, from British dramas
Paramount+
When Paramount+ initially announced ambitious plans to put 50 international titles into production by the end of 2022, it surprised streaming service experts, for whom the service was badly late and awkwardly managed. The lateness wasn't the service's fault, as parent companies CBS and Viacom struggled