Telly that bridges the Pond
The UK’s Freesat Awards were held this past Tuesday, and the winners in the three categories most relevant to British TV fans in the US — Best TV Sitcom, Best TV Drama, and Best of British TV — are all
The Season One DVDs for DCI Banks, Death in Paradise, and Scott & Bailey — three of the highest-rated British TV programs that premiered exclusively on local public television stations in the US — are finally here.
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
The first Broadchurch mystery has been solved. Casting has been announced for Series 2 of the hit ITV mystery drama, ending the months-long speculation about which actors will or won’t be returning to the show whose first series was a
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
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.
Filming has begun on the fourth series of Scott & Bailey, a two-time BAFTA nominee for Best Drama Series, so it’s time to whoop it up because one of our favorite shows of 2013 will be returning to telly in
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,
Many a British crime drama can be described as noir, but few (if any) actually take viewers to Arctic climes. The chilling new series, Fortitude — starring Academy Award® nominee Stanley Tucci, Christopher Eccleston, Michael Gambon, and Jessica Raine —
A month after ITV released the first trailer for the second series of Endeavour comes news that the hit mystery will debut in the US on PBS this summer. Wahoo!
Rarely does a British program screen in the US ahead of the UK, and the same holds true for Scandinavian shows, too. However, Unit One, the 2002 International Emmy Award® winner for Best Drama, is an exception.