Crime dramas have long been a staple of TV schedules, but ever since the advent of The Wire in 2002 they’ve grown in ambition and prestige, focussing on institutional dysfunction and the moral ambiguities of enforcing the law as much as the crimes themselves. The latest to grace our screens is Cardinal, a slickly made import […]
The last decade in British TV has been particularly great, especially as it coincides with a huge upswing in the quality of TV shows across the world. In a time of critical and popular worldwide successes such as Breaking Bad, Orange Is The New Black, Entourage and The Big Bang Theory, British TV has had to […]
Before we get too deeply into this, let’s just get the regenerating elephant out of the room. We know everyone knows John Simm as the Master in Doctor Who. He’s kind of impossible to forget, given the cackling glee he brought to proceedings and the fact that he made the Doctor cry. And he’s not […]
We know you’ve been counting down the days until Sarah, Cosima, Alison, and the rest of the Orphan Black gang return to our screens, and we only have a week and a day to go! (Season 2 premieres April 19.) So just to make those eight days go by as quickly as possible, here’s a […]
Let’s be fair, all science fiction is drawn from a small pot of ideas, most often based around where science fact (and cultural reality) has got to when the ideas are first minted. And the more science fiction there is, the fewer new ideas there are, and the higher the chances that some of them will […]
With BBC’s Mistresses making its way to ABC on Monday, June 3, it made us think people may want to catch up on the original show. As well, take a peek at other British shows — that have been remade in the U.S.— currently available online: 1. Mistresses Four friends find themselves tangled up in […]
Weddings. Candy. TV Drama. There are simply some things the Brits traditionally do better than Americans. In celebration of BBC America’s launch of its new Dramaville block on August 17 – beginning with the 1950s-set spy thriller The Hour – we asked readers to submit their choices for the Greatest British TV Drama of all-time. […]
More news about U.S. remakes of British shows: the executive producer of the U.S. version of The Office has thrown Harvey Keitel‘s name into the ring as a potential Steve Carell replacement as the boss of Dunder Mifflin. “He’s probably the only guy who can do it, and he’s doing TV now,” executive producer Paul […]
Archie Panjabi – British actress known for East Is East, Bend It Like Beckham, and her role as Maya on BBC AMERICA’s Life On Mars – stunned Emmy prognosticators with a surprise win for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for The Good Wife. The Mad Men ladies – Christina Hendricks and Elisabeth Moss […]
The Primetime Emmy awards are just 13 days away. Shall we look at a few of the nominees with accents? Today we start with the London-born Archie Panjabi, an Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series contender for her work as sexy, leather-clad PI Kalinda on the courtroom drama, The Good Wife. I’m actually quite […]
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