Talk about noir. The BAFTA-nominated drama Southcliffe is dark, gloomy, bleak — a binge-watching version of rubbernecking.
British Drama Southcliffe Now Screening in the US
PBS Sets 2015 Dates for Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife
PBS made several program announcements during the Summer 2014 TCA Press Tour yesterday, not the least of which were about the British shows scheduled for 2015.
Neighbours: Australian Serial Returns to the US
G’day, Aussie TV fans. It is a good day, because the long-running Australian serial, Neighbours, has moved back to the US from the land down under.
British TV News Bits: BBC America Edition
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.
New Endeavour, Last Tango in Halifax, Vicious This Sunday
PBS is the place for back-to-back Brit TV this Sunday, when the public television network premieres the second series of both the beloved family drama Last Tango in Halifax and popular mystery drama Endeavour and the first series of hit
Freesat Awards 2014: The Winners to Watch in the US
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
New Cast Members for Call the Midwife
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.
Confirmed: New Poldark Adaptation to Air in the US on PBS
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.
PBS Masterpiece Fall 2014: Marple, Lewis, the Darcys, and Worricker
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
Must-See Brit TV on DVD: The Worricker Trilogy Starring Bill Nighy
Wanting more, waiting, score! That sums up this Bill Nighy fan’s post-Page Eight experience — being in a holding pattern for more than two and a half years until the second and third installments of The Worricker Trilogy were screened
Breathless Brings ’60s Style and Drama to US Screens
For a period drama whose key characters are mostly the doctors and nurses of a hospital gynecology ward, Breathless is not a medical drama in the usual sense, and it is anything but sterile.
The Rise of TV from Down Under [UPDATED]
The British “invasion” of American television has become an entrenched and still-growing part of the stateside viewing landscape, but another invasion is also taking audiences by storm, and this time it’s Australian.