Telly that bridges the Pond
The UK’s Freesat Awards were held this past Tuesday, and the winners in the three categories most relevant to British TV fans in the US — Best TV Sitcom, Best TV Drama, and Best of British TV — are all
What do you get when you combine one boozer of a cop, his missing wife, and his obsession with an amnesiac? The gripping British psychological thriller Amnesia, which has finally made its way to US broadcasters courtesy of local public
Not to put too fine a point on it, but PBS is the place for stateside Brit TV fans to be on Sunday nights this autumn, because Masterpiece is bringing some of our favorite Brit TV characters back to US
Wanting more, waiting, score! That sums up this Bill Nighy fan’s post-Page Eight experience — being in a holding pattern for more than two and a half years until the second and third installments of The Worricker Trilogy were screened
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: