Acorn TV
Cozy crime series tend to fall under one of three primary tropes. There's the "Secretly a Romance" series, where the "will they or won't they" of the detectives is the key to liking it, think Silent Witness since Season 14; the "
Netflix
Corby is on the warpath in the second half of Netflix’s Toxic Town – we shift focus to the 2000s where the long-gestating legal case gathers steam against the town council for their negligence that poisoned local pregnant women with toxic waste. But, like a lot of landmark legal wins,
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Toxic Town is the story of the Corby Toxic Waste case, a landmark court case dubbed “the British Erin Brockovich” that has now spawned a swift, pacy Netflix miniseries that borrows not just from the formula of the crowd-pleasing Julia Roberts film, but also the 25 years of media about
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It's finally official: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will be back for a third season. This news isn't incredibly surprising, given that almost everyone involved with the show already appeared to be proceeding as though Season 3 was a done deal in
Netflix
Netflix has traveled far from the company's original ideals when it launched House of Cards in 2013. Back then, the streaming service was all about the prestige TV game and greenlighting ambitious series no one in their right mind would have agreed to, such as agreeing to six
Netflix
Netflix initially announced Toxic Town in August 2023, during the height of the dual writers-actors strike in America. A U.K.-based series focusing on the real-life Corby Toxic Waste Case, it could technically go into production right away since it would be under the U.K.'s Actor&
PBS
A Ghost Story for Christmas initially debuted in 1971 on the BBC, a Christmas Eve anthology series of scary stories to tell in the dark while awaiting Santa. The original iteration ran for seven years, concluding in 1978. The first five adaptations were based on M.R. James' famous
Drama
As the third installment of Ridley Road begins, Vivien is woken by Elise and finds the house is in an uproar with the arrival of Colin Jordan’s glamorous wife, Francoise Dior (Romane Portail), and George Lincoln Rockwell (Stephen Hogan), leader of the American Nazi Party. Although her night with
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Vivien Epstein, now blonde Jane Carpenter, is visiting the leader of the National Socialist Party, Colin Jordan, whose bonhomie and charm can be turned off in the wink of an eye. She wants to know her boyfriend's whereabouts, Peter Fox (real name Jack Morris), and at first, Colin
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Although it’s less than twenty years after the end of World War II when Ridley Road opens, neo-Nazism is still alive and thriving under the auspices of the National Socialist Movement in the United Kingdom, targeting Jews, Black, and brown people in the alleged interests of racial purity. Its
Drama
Like many of you, I’ve been watching the HBO quasi-dystopian drama Years and Years with a combination of great affection and uncomfortable nerve-jangling anxiety. (I'll be honest binge-watching this show was out of the question, as I needed time to process each episode before moving on to
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British broadcaster Channel 4 dropped a first look clip at their upcoming new Brexit-focused drama starring British acting heavyweights Benedict Cumberbatch and Rory Kinnear. Currently titled Brexit: The Uncivil War, the drama aims to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the infamous and controversial Brexit campaign, from the perspective of both