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Mysteries and crime-solving stories are a source of comfort, a combination of seeing someone competent in charge of righting wrongs, bringing order out of chaos by revealing the murderer hidden amongst our ranks. It's not surprising that the chaos of the last decade has led to the latest
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Move over, Slough House. Slow Horses isn't going to be the only destination for law enforcement derelicts and misfits on the proverbial television block. Netflix's forthcoming crime drama Dept. Q will follow the investigations of a newly formed cold case unit that's so second-tier
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The average American reader is probably not very familiar with Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen or his wildly popular series of thrillers, the Department Q series, initially titled Afdeling Q in Danish. Currently at ten books, with the last one published in 2022, Netflix acquired the rights to produce the first-ever
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While Disney+ and Netflix were announcing release dates for their respective high-end British shows for 2024, Sky Film's The Radleys was having a splendid debut on the movie side of the Edinburgh Film Festival. The TV movie adaptation of Matt Haig's hit novel of the same
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The supernatural black comedy The Radleys finally has reared its head and bared its teeth for the first time since June 2023, when the film was first announced. Based on the popular novel of the same name by Matt Haig, the story follows the titular Radley family — parents Peter and
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Netflix first announced it had secured the rights to make a television adaptation of Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q mystery novel just under a year ago, in April 2023, along with a slew of other U.K.-based projects at the time. Unlike some other projects announced during
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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
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Damian Lewis is the sort of actor one tends to associate with prestige drama --- he won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his starring role in the spy thriller Homeland, but his career has spanned series ranging from period dramas (Wolf Hall) to adaptations of literary classics (A
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This month, the sixth season of the wildly popular British police procedural Line of Duty made its American debut on BritBox. Each series features a guest star who finds themselves in hot water with the show’s anti-corruption unit helmed by Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar). Joining the ranks of
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When Line of Duty first started airing in 2012 on BBC Two, it was a hit right out of the gate. Written and created by Jed Mercurio, it was the latest in a string of high-profile projects from the writer that ran the gamut from the ultra-realistic hospital drama Cardiac
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The Child in Time is one of those dramas that doesn’t turn out to be quite the story you think it is. On the surface, it’s a tale about a lost child. But, it also isn’t, in the most basic sense. The drama isn’t about the