Telly that bridges the Pond
If the new supernatural thriller Penny Dreadful is on your want-to-watch list, but you don’t have a subscription to Showtime, here’s your chance to catch the first episode in its entirety — legally and gratis.
You’ve got to hand it to the book editors at Amazon. Out of the 271,852 listings under the online retailer’s “Mystery, Thriller & Suspense” category, they managed to cull them down to a list of the 100 Mysteries & Thrillers
The Doctor is a lawyer. That is, Doctor Who‘s Tenth Doctor, David Tennant, portrays a barrister whose charmed life becomes a living nightmare in the suspense thriller, The Escape Artist, which debuts in the US this summer.
BBC Two is marking its 50th year, and guess who gets the anniversary present? We do! The gift? Not one but two more series of the critically-acclaimed and viewer-favorite crime drama Line of Duty. Woot!
In the realm of crime dramas, noir is the new black, and the latest series of Line of Duty is as dark and gripping from start to finish as any of the Nordic Noir programs that have crossed the fjords.
A new crime drama is headed to the US, one in which murder is mingled with other menaces in war-torn London. And it is coming to PBS next month.
Fans of the intense police-corruption drama Line of Duty can look forward to watching the second series in the not-too-distant future on both sides of the pond.
Viewers were treated to some of the best British TV the UK had to offer in 2013, and like you, we had our favorites, such as these:
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.
The highly-anticipated new comedy-thriller, The Wrong Mans, premiered in the UK last night, and will soon be making its stateside premiere as a Hulu Original Series.
Following up on yesterday’s Hulu-related posts, today we delve into the wide array of programs making their way to the ever-expanding British TV catalog at Hulu Plus.
The Fall 2013 television season has barely kicked off, and already there’s much to look forward to in 2014. One series that sounds intriguing as all get-out is Penny Dreadful, for which Showtime just signed British actress Billie Piper.