Telly that bridges the Pond
As we wait with bated breath for the new season of Doctor Who to premiere on the 23rd of August, BBC America has several more announcements, including the return of Orphan Black and Broadchurch and the commission of new programs.
Protests, politics, and murders are the stuff of newspaper headlines when the second series of Scottish crime drama, The Field of Blood, debuts in the US on Acorn TV.
There’s good news and bad news about ITV’s hit mystery drama, Vera. Filming has begun on the fifth series (hooray!), and actor David Leon has left the show (say it ain’t so!).
While Scotland is definitely bonnie (seriously, if you haven’t been, it’s a must-visit for any Brit TV fan), the amount of Scottish television programming available in the US is lacking compared to its English and Irish counterparts. But things are
New nurses will be joining the midwives and nuns at Nonnatus House when the hit drama Call the Midwife returns for a fourth series. And a certain narrator will be making an on-screen appearance, too.
PBS Masterpiece, which brought the original 1970s BBC adaptation of Poldark to the US, has announced that it will screen the Aidan Turner-led adaptation of the romantic saga in 2015.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but PBS is the place for stateside Brit TV fans to be on Sunday nights this autumn, because Masterpiece is bringing some of our favorite Brit TV characters back to US
For hours of aristocratic fun and hijinks, head to Acorn TV when the subscription video-on-demand service begins its exclusive screening of hit Brit comedy Blandings: Series 2 in the US next week. But wait, there’s more! Jeeves & Wooster is coming
Phryne Fisher — the most stylish of lady detectives since, well, ever — is headed back to local PBS stations, so hold onto your stylish hats because more murders and mayhem are headed your way from Down Under.
The fictional county of Midsomer hangs onto its unofficial title as “the deadliest county in England” when three new episodes of the long-running Brit mystery, Midsomer Murders, make their North American premieres on Acorn TV next month.
You’ve got to hand it to the book editors at Amazon. Out of the 271,852 listings under the online retailer’s “Mystery, Thriller & Suspense” category, they managed to cull them down to a list of the 100 Mysteries & Thrillers
If ever there was a British version of the American character, Lieutenant Columbo, DCI Vera Stanhope is it. The disheveled detective with a keen mind for solving crime returns to telly when the fourth series of the hit drama, Vera,