Telly that bridges the Pond
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.
By my count, 215 new programs and program seasons from the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada premiered stateside in 2016. Of them, here are my picks for the best 20 that were brand-spanking-new to the US.
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.
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.
“In like a lion, out like a lamb?” Not for British TV in the US, because this month is chock-full of must-watch premieres of new and returning shows, plus lots of Irish programs, too!
Well, here’s a first for stateside Irish TV fans. And an addictive bit of craic it is, too. It’s Red Rock, the award-winning soap opera from the Emerald Isle.
Happy New Year! It’s the 1st of January, which means Sherlock: The Abominable Bride! And there’s much more British TV screening in the US during the rest of the month, too!
One hundred thirty TV shows from British Commonwealth territories and Ireland were new to the US in 2015, and selecting my fifteen favorites of the year took some doing.
Stateside fans of cooking, baking, and food competition shows, this is for you. A list of 26 programs from lands across the pond and Down Under that will bring out the foodie in you.
SundanceTV has got it going on in co-productions on both sides of the pond and internationally, and now it’s added two more titles to its slate.
“[T]he history of Irish castles is the history of Ireland itself.” And with Tales of Irish Castles, viewers get a fascinating lesson about the country as told through its castles.
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