Keep calm and… Oh never mind, go ahead and whoop it up. The Downton Abbey film is now official.
Downton Abbey Film Is a Go


Keep calm and… Oh never mind, go ahead and whoop it up. The Downton Abbey film is now official.
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Thirty five titles are on the to-watch list this month, including 15 national premieres, two local debuts, and 18 more shows airing or streaming for your (binge-watching) delight.

Before you laissez les bons temps rouler on Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday, check out the new and returning British and Aussie programs this month, including a few highly-anticipated ones.

A Happy 2017 to you! Without further ado, let’s get to the shows that will help us ring in the new year and give us hours of fabulous British, Aussie, Kiwi, Canadian, and Irish TV entertainment.

Autumn is here, and with the crispness of the air and fewer hours of daylight come a bevy of British TV premieres, including some of the most highly-anticipated program returns.
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Twenty British, Irish, Australian, and Canadian series premiere nationally in the US in May, while In the Club debuts on, and Scott & Bailey and Shetland return to, public TV stations.
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No, this is not an April Fool’s joke. A whopping twenty-one series premiere in or return to the US this month, including some of the most highly-anticipated shows this year.
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Several Brit TV movies, documentaries, crime dramas and mysteries, and a sci-fi series’ holiday special from last year, make their way to US streaming services this month.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, as holiday specials, dramas, a mockumentary and rockumentary, a music-filled movie, and a proper musical, premiere on US channels and streaming services this month.

Woo hoo! Robert Carlyle’s directorial film debut, the award-winning, twisted dark comedy thriller Barney Thomson, is headed to this side of the pond!
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With November comes the start of holiday programming, but there’s still a fair number of British program premieres this month, including some must-see Brit TV titles.

Big news: Not only is Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None getting its first-ever TV treatment, the book is getting its third film adaptation, too.