Today’s Hump Day news edition features three of our favorite UK crime dramas, including an Emmy winner, a BAFTA nominee, and an IFTA nominee.
Brit TV News Bits: Sherlock, Scott & Bailey, George Gently
Monroe: Series 2 of Brit Medical Drama Debuts in the US
Hospital drama Monroe is headed back to the US to delight fans of the genre and actor James Nesbitt when its second and final series premieres next week.
Brit TV News Bits: The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses
Fans of Shakespeare and The Hollow Crown, rejoice! BBC Two has announced its commission of the Bard-based follow-up, The Hollow Crown: The Wars Of The Roses.
Blackpool, Bluestone 42, and More New Brit TV Additions Exclusively on Hulu Plus
There are several new (to the US) and exclusive British TV programs that have been added to the Hulu Plus catalogue, and all of them are streaming now.
Outlander Renewed for Season 2
More of the much-loved “Outlander” book series will be adapted for the small screen, as Starz announced that its fantasy series Outlander has been greenlit for a second season.
New Series of Brit Hit New Tricks Debuting Soon
The Met’s UCOS team will be heating up more cold cases when the BBC’s long-running crime dramedy New Tricks returns for its eleventh series.
Happy Valley: Hit BBC One Drama to Premiere in the US Exclusively on Netflix
Netflix has scored another British TV exclusive. This time “the world’s leading Internet TV network” is bringing the hit BBC One crime thriller Happy Valley to its subscribers in the US and Canada.
P.G. Wodehouse-Based Britcom Blandings Coming to Local Public TV Stations [UPDATED]
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With a hooey here and a hooey there, the hit Britcom Blandings (featuring pig in residence The Empress) will be making its way to local public TV stations this month.
British Drama Southcliffe Now Screening in the US
Talk about noir. The BAFTA-nominated drama Southcliffe is dark, gloomy, bleak — a binge-watching version of rubbernecking.
David Suchet on Being Poirot: Special Premiering on Public TV
The stateside Summer of Poirot kicked off last Sunday with “The Big Four,” and how merveilleux was it to see David Suchet return to the screen as our favorite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. But there is more of Suchet in
Secret State: Thriller Could Have Been Ripped from Headlines
Political maneuvering for power. Big business and big money interests in government. Conspiracy theories that could bring a nation to war — again. Sound familiar? Welcome to Secret State.
Martin Clunes Is “The Man Who Lost His Head”
About a month before ITV debuted the third series of Doc Martin, it screened a delightful made-for-TV movie — The Man Who Lost His Head — that starred the doc himself, Martin Clunes. And starting next week, local public television