Telly that bridges the Pond
British Royals have been the subjects of documentaries for more than a century, perhaps none more so than Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana, whose strained and troubled relationship is the focus of Diana vs The Queen.
The newest series of the hit crime drama, George Gently, has been available for streaming in the US since it debuted on Acorn TV three weeks ago. However, if your preferred or only means of watching it is broadcast television,
Money. Power. Sex. Scandal. All this and more has been dramatized in the British TV series, Hotel Babylon, but for a real-life look at what really goes on behind closed doors at some of the swankiest hotels in the world, there
Keeping a stiff upper lip might be the quintessentially English way of handling a crisis, but for noted author P.G. Wodehouse, doing so backfired on him during World War II. The biopic, Wodehouse in Exile, tells the story of how
New Tricks is back with its tenth series, and members of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) have more to deal with than cold case investigations, the results of which mean the team will never be the same
Death in Paradise, the hit Brit whodunit, is coming back to local PBS and independent public television stations with a third series, a new detective inspector, and eight new mysteries for him to solve. Ain’t life in Brit TV land
Rounding out this weeks’s news of programs coming to local PBS stations is Hebburn, the British Comedy Guide’s 2013 winner for Best New TV Sitcom, which will be back with its second season.
The 2012 Olympic Games may be over, but the laughs will soon be starting when a select few PBS stations begin airing the Hugh Bonneville-led ensemble cast comedy, Twenty Twelve.
Local public television stations have their own British invasion going on. In addition to airing PBS programs and exclusively premiering some of the best dramas out of the UK in the US (e.g. DCI Banks, Scott & Bailey, etc.), many
Headlines are made when a member of the British monarchy gets wed or gives birth. In advance of Prince George’s birth, the documentary film Born to Royalty was made, and Royal watchers in the US who missed seeing it in
Every once in a while, a television show comes along that just clicks. Such is the case with Frankie, the latest British drama to come to local PBS stations.
Before there was Netflix’s Primetime Emmy®-nominated House of Cards, there was the original House of Cards from the BBC, one of the British Film Institute’s “BFI TV 100,” a list of the best British television programs to have ever aired.