Fans of Reverend Richard Coles' Canon Clement Mysteries will be thrilled to know the series is headed to the small screen. Acorn TV and Channel 5 are in the process of co-producing an adaptation of the first book in the series, Murder Before Evensong. The book follows Canon Daniel Clement, a rector who finds himself involved in a murder case when the cousin of a church patron is found stabbed in the neck. Since its 2022 release, Coles has written two further books in the series: A Death in...
2 days ago • 2 min read
A few people have emailed recently to ask whether we'll be doing a new British TV Streaming Guide soon, and the answer is YES. We're just waiting on details from a couple more streaming networks before we wrap things up and get it submitted for Amazon's approval. With any luck, it will be live and ready for purchase by Thanksgiving weekend. When it's ready, you'll be the first to know. What we're... Watching: The Marlow Murder Club - I hate waiting for weekly episodes to drop, so I waited...
3 days ago • 4 min read
Ever since the new Rebus adaptation premiered on ViaPlay last week, we've gotten a lot of emails like... "Okay, I've subscribed to ViaPlay for Rebus - what else should I watch while I have it?" Why would I subscribe to a service for one show? Do they have anything else worth watching? And of course, we received a few messages that were just venting about how many streaming services you need to watch all the good British shows - which we understand (though as a news site, we can't do anything...
7 days ago • 5 min read
First off, we want to wish a very happy Veterans' Day (or Remembrance Day) to all our readers who served their countries, and to all our readers who are thinking of a special veteran today. If the occasion has you thinking of shows and movies about WWI and WW2, we recommend checking out these great posts by contributor Liberty White: British WWI Movies & TV Shows British WWII Movies & TV Shows Yesterday marked 30 years since the premiere of Vicar of Dibley - easily one of the best British TV...
9 days ago • 4 min read
Many of our readers will have read the Thursday Murder Club books, which follow a group of four people in a retirement community who have a weekly club dedicated to discussing (and eventually, solving) murders. In speaking with other mystery readers, however, I've noticed that many don't realise the setting, Coopers Chase, was loosely based on the real life community that author Richard Osman's mum calls home. If you're curious to learn more about the "real Coopers Chase", you can check out...
10 days ago • 2 min read
Today marks the US premiere of the brand-new Rebus adaptation - and it's a binge premiere. I know a lot of people have been disappointed it's only on ViaPlay, but the good news is that Amazon offers a free 7-day trial HERE, and they have a ton of other great shows (mostly Scandinavian) that most non-ViaPlay subscribers probably won't have seen. The Edinburgh-based series follows a slightly younger Rebus (played by Richard Rankin) as he investigates a criminal conflict that turns surprisingly...
13 days ago • 4 min read
Whether writing a police procedural, a high-tech thriller, or a historical novel, it's not uncommon for authors to spend a great deal of time doing research to add authenticity to their work. Most of the time, that means a quick Google search or maybe an interview with a subject matter expert. In some cases, though, the problem is that nobody has ever done the research. That's exactly the problem author CJ Sansom ran into when writing Sovereign (the third book in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor...
15 days ago • 3 min read
Happy Halloween! For those lovely readers who are handing out candy tonight, we've included a section at the end full of British shows which are still enjoyable with lots of pausing and interruptions - shows that don't require intense and constant concentration. Thank you to all of you who are out there making the holiday a little more magical for the kids of your area! What we're... Watching: Great British Ghosts - Host Michaela Strachan (Winterwatch) takes us to all sorts of haunted...
20 days ago • 3 min read
We'll make this a quick one - just an update about what's coming this week, the new Acorn TV lineup for November, and a few spooky recommendations. What we're... Watching: Travels by Narrowboat - This is one of those lovely "background shows" where you can just leave it on as you do other things, occasionally checking in to watch a particularly scenic or interesting bit. As I was putting together a post on Acorn TV's November schedule, I saw they were adding a new narrowboat series later in...
24 days ago • 4 min read