May brings the premieres of 24 new series, seasons, specials, and films from the UK, Canada, and Ireland to the US.
British TV Premieres in May 2023: Happy Valley, The Rising, The Tower & More

May brings the premieres of 24 new series, seasons, specials, and films from the UK, Canada, and Ireland to the US.
Summer’s here and the time is right for tuning into new and returning crime thrillers, documentaries, mysteries, period dramas, and sci-fi series, plus a competition show, from the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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.
Following up on Part 1 about our favorite 2014 Brit TV debuts, we look today at the programs that returned to this side of the pond with their second, third, etc. seasons.
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!
It’s been nearly 25 years since the the award-winning crime drama Prime Suspect premiered, and seven since its last installment first screened. Since then, plenty of fans on both sides of the pond have wanted to see more of DCI
Whodunits will be burning up the PBS summer schedule when Masterpiece: Mystery! follows up the final season of Inspector Lewis, the Inspector Morse spin-off, with the first series of the Morse prequel Endeavour.