Telly that bridges the Pond
![British TV to Watch in May 2016: Line of Duty, Penny Dreadful, Wallander & LOTS More [UPDATED]](https://thebritishtvplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/British-TV-Shows-to-Watch-in-May-2016-600x300.jpg "British TV to Watch in May 2016: Line of Duty, Penny Dreadful, Wallander & LOTS More [UPDATED]")
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.
Get ready to get your binge-watch on, because Line of Duty is back and its better-than-ever third series is set to premiere in the US this weekend.
In a bit of reverse engineering of sorts, Lifetime will premiere the hit British comedy, Catastrophe, currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video in the US.
Among the Entertainment and Children’s programs winners of the 75th Peabody Awards is Wolf Hall, the historical drama starring Oscar® winner Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.
BBC One has announced that Pearl Mackie will play Bill, the new companion to Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord in Doctor Who.
When it comes to streaming video services, stateside consumers have choices galore. And according to Consumer Reports ratings, Acorn TV tops all VoD services in the overall score.
Did Netflix triple-dog-dare Amazon? Because Amazon is now offering Prime Video as a standalone monthly subscription in the US, mere weeks before Netflix starts rolling out its higher subscription price.
![Casting News: Sean Bean, Karla Crome, Philip Glenister, Steven Mackintosh, Olivia Williams [UPDATED]](https://thebritishtvplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/British-TV-Casting-News-1-600x300.jpg "Casting News: Sean Bean, Karla Crome, Philip Glenister, Steven Mackintosh, Olivia Williams [UPDATED]")
Several of British TV and film’s favorite actors, including Sean Bean, Karla Crome, Philip Glenister, Steven Mackintosh, and Olivia Williams, are starring in new television series. Find out which others are costarring alongside them.
Season 3 of hit crime drama Broadchurch begins filming soon, with several actors joining David Tennant, Olivia Colman, and others of the returning cast for the show’s final outing.
Hulu scored the exclusive US SVoD rights to the awesome, award-nominated drama-comedy, My Mad fat Diary, and is streaming the complete series as of today.
On both sides of the pond, fans of Grantchester can’t get enough of this hit Brit mystery. So ITV and PBS are bringing us more!
Acorn, the RLJ Entertainment brand that brings some of the best British TV to the US, has acquired the television, digital, and home entertainment rights to the highly-anticipated new espionage drama, The Secret Agent, from Content Television.