Telly that bridges the Pond
Doc Martin fans, it’s time to do a happy dance, because the hit dramedy’s new series is set to premiere on both sides of the pond soon, and Acorn TV has just announced when for the US.
After speaking with a friend in Morocco, where temps are around 115° F at night (!), highs in the 90s here don’t seem so bad, especially when we can chill out with some fab British, Irish, Australian, and Canadian series
Sky 1, Sky plc’s flagship pay TV channel in the UK and Ireland, has renewed its focus and upped its investment in original programming, and at least some of its shows are headed to the US.
Viewers in the UK have more new dramas to look forward to, including the prequel to one of the best crime dramas ever to have graced tellys on both sides of the pond, and another starring a Downton Abbey alum.
Hello June, the month that practically every US Brit TV fan has been waiting for, given the premieres of several highly-anticipated new series and the return of many viewer favorites.
Stateside Brendan Coyle and Miranda Raison fans, rejoice. Spotless, the British/French co-production that is taking France by storm right now, is headed to the US.
It’s time to wrap the maypole and begin watching the more than dozen British TV shows premiering in the US this month, including The Fixer, Mr. Sloane, the third and final season of Moone Boy, and the second season of
The critically-acclaimed UK series, Mr. Sloane, is set to have its US national broadcast premiere on KCET and Link TV, and series creator Robert B. Weide chatted with me about his bringing it from concept to screen. (Yowzah!)
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.
It’s time to go to back the (fictional) island of Saint-Marie, where fun in the sun mixes with dark secrets and murders. Near-perfect murders until DI Humphrey Goodman has his aha moments. Yes, it’s time for the fourth season of
Stateside viewers will be able to bid farewell to Derek Noakes soon, when Netflix begins streaming the final one-off episode of Derek, the NTA-nominated series for Best Comedy.
Namaste, Brit TV fans. Just in time to get your binge-watch on this weekend is the newly-arrived, fabulous comedy-drama, The Indian Doctor, starring Sanjeev Bhaskar.