For the first time ever, Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Foyle’s War will be on the ballot for Emmy® Awards voters to consider as nominees, thanks to Acorn TV.
Acorn TV Submits Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Foyle’s War Finales for Emmy® Awards


For the first time ever, Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Foyle’s War will be on the ballot for Emmy® Awards voters to consider as nominees, thanks to Acorn TV.

The Royal Shakespeare Company is currently performing the multiple 2015 awards-nominated Wolf Hall: Parts One & Two on Broadway, so get your theatre on in New York City, and with a promotion code for reduced priced tickets to boot.
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American television networks have been announcing the new and returning programs for their 2015/2016 primetime schedules, several of which feature British actors in lead or supporting roles.

No Showtime subscription? No problem. At least not for the opener of Penny Dreadful: Season 2, which is streaming now and for free in advance of the season premiere next month.

Cue the creepy theremin music, because the worldwide hit Brit mystery, Midsomer Murders, is returning for its eighteenth outing.

“The river did come to me, straight into my arms…” And it will do again, as Sky and Pivot have renewed Fortitude, the crime thriller that’s become a worldwide hit, for a second season, just ahead of the Season 1

Hump days don’t get any better than this! ITV has commissioned a ninth series of Inspector Lewis. Need I say more?

The nominees for the 2015 BAFTA TV Awards were announced today, with two actors receiving their respective fifth and sixth BAFTA nominations, and four dramas receiving three nominations each.

No amount of grumpiness on the part of Dr. Martin Ellingham can keep Doc Martin fans, a.k.a. Clunatics, away from the hit comedy-drama that is now filming its seventh series.

Fantastic! Allons-y! Geronimo! (12th Doctor’s catchphrase here!) The year of our Time Lord, 2015, marks tens year since the Doctor Who reboot series landed on telly, and BBC Worldwide is celebrating by offering Whovians a special bundle of goodies at

Vera, the hit crime drama starring Brenda Blethyn, returns to UK telly with its fifth series in a few days, and before you know it, it’ll be screening in the US. Oh, and there’s news about Series 6, too.

Now this is what I call a fabulous way to start the week: news from ITV that the third series of the hit mystery drama, Endeavour, is in production.