Some of your favorite British dramas will cross over to the dark side in 2019
In the interest of trying to appeal to a wider audience, several of your favorite series will venture into the arena of darker storylines this year.
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Benedict Cumberbatch added to ‘Good Omens’ as the voice of Satan
He’ll square off against Frances McDormand as the voice of God in the long-anticipated adaptation of the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel.
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More death in paradise as ‘The Mallorca Files’ screens at BBC Showcase 2019
‘The Mallorca Files’ shows, once again, that paradise isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, with more death than the law allows.
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A severed hand and a bag of body parts — must be the return of ‘Shetland’!
The island community of Shetland is once again rocked with the opening of season 5, this time with a brand-new case involving a severed hand and a bag of body parts found by a lone jogger on the beach.
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More blood, guts and brilliant forensic work headed our way as BBC commissions ‘Silent Witness’ S23
Before series 22 could even fade to black earlier this week, the BBC confirmed it had commissioned another series of the critically acclaimed, award winning British crime drama series.
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‘Broken’ starring Sean Bean emerges from BBC Showcase as another must-see TV drama
I have to believe if you looked up words like “gritty,” “powerful” or “gripping” in the dictionary, you would find the episode listings for ‘Broken.’
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Shaun Evans returns as DS Endeavour Morse when series 6 premieres June 16 on PBS
Shaun Evans is back at it both in front of and behind the camera as Endeavour returns for its 6th series beginning Sunday, June 16 at 9pET / 8pCT on PBS (February 10 on ITV). Sporting a new look complete with a moustache sadly indicative of the time period, Evans will put his directorial mark on […]
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Bodyguard’s Keeley Hawes returns to MI5 in Channel 4’s period spy drama ‘Traitors’
Venturing into Nicola Walker territory in my book, the greatness that is Keeley Hawes returns next month in a new spy drama from Channel 4, Traitors. The former Spooks, Ashes to Ashes, Durrells in Corfu, Upstairs Downstairs, Line of Duty, Bodyguard star will play Priscilla, a woman working as a member of the Civil Service following the Labour Party’s […]
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MODUS comes to PBS as first offering from Channel 4’s Walter Presents
PBS’ PBS Distribution unit recently struck a deal with British streaming service Walter Presents, which last year launched in the U.S. as an SVOD product, to add more than 300 hours of international drama series to its PBS Masterpiece channel on Amazon’s Prime Video Channels. Started in January 2016 as a co-venture between Britain’s Channel 4, […]
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The power of television on display as ‘Call the Midwife’ shines spotlight on sickle cell disease
Series 8 of Call the Midwife premiered last Sunday (January 13) on BBC One and, by all accounts, fans of the series are in for the proverbial bicycle ride of their lives. Never a series to shy away from difficult subject matter, this year is certainly going to be no exception. Having already dealt with the […]
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