This email will be a bit shorter than usual, but considering the number of messages we get on this topic, I'm guessing many of you will be as excited about it as we were...

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​Shakespeare & Hathaway is returning for series 5!

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We'd been hearing rumours for a while, but it was officially confirmed by the BBC this morning. Filming is in progress now, and you can read everything we know so far HERE.

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Need to check on the status of other British TV shows? You can check our status update database HERE.

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In the meantime, we know our US readers (which is most of you) are coming up on a particularly nasty election, so if you need something similarly light and fun to watch, we have several recommendation lists that might help...

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• ​9 of the Most Delightfully Absurd British TV Mystery Premises​
• ​30+ of the Best British TV Cozy Mysteries​
• ​17+ of the Best British Mysteries Set in Quaint English Villages​
• ​29 British TV Shows Featuring Church & the Clergy (a couple of these are darker, but most are pretty light and life-affirming)

​Acorn TV's October 2024 Lineup - A Candice Renoir Halloween special? Yes, that's exactly what you're seeing in the photo above - and what you can look forward to on Acorn TV next month (along with a new season of Whitstable Pearl and plenty more!)

New & Upcoming

• On PBS Masterpiece, Sundays are currently bringing new episodes of a few great crime dramas - Ridley, Van der Valk, and Moonflower Murders.
• On BritBox, September 26th brings season 3 of The Tower.
  • ​BritBox October 2024 schedule & descriptions​
  • ​BritBox September 2024 schedule & descriptions​​
• On Acorn TV, Monday the 23rd brings the two-part thriller Bon Voyage, a new episode of The Long Shadow and the dark comedy film How to Murder Your Wife.
  • ​Acorn TV October 2024 schedule & descriptions​
  • ​Acorn TV September 2024 schedule & descriptions​
• On Apple TV+, new episodes of season 4 of the spy thriller Slow Horses continue weekly through October 2nd.
• On Shudder, horror fans can check out the upcoming Irish film Oddity on September 27th. When a woman is murdered at the remote country house she shares with her husband, suspicion falls on the local mental institution where her husband is a doctor. A year later, her blind and psychic twin sister comes to visit, seeking revenge.

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​View all the brand-new British TV premieres in the US for September 2024 HERE​

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More to Read...

​350+ British TV Show Status Updates - Need to check on the status of your favourite British TV show from the last 4-5 years? This is the place to do it (and you might just get ideas for more to watch).

​House of Edinburgh's Chocolate Chip Shortbread Fingers - I don't drink a lot of tea in summer, but with the weather getting colder, I'm re-stocking my supplies of shortbread and Taylor's of Harrogate tea - and these were delicious.

​14 New British Crime Novels for Autumn 2024 - Plenty of great murder-y books to enjoy as the nights grow longer...

A Few More Viewing Ideas...

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• ​The Goes Wrong Show - Easily one of the most underrated recent British comedies, this series follows members of a fictitious theatre company where everything goes wrong, all the time.
• ​Wilderness - Jenna Coleman (Victoria) stars in this 2023 thriller about a couple on an American road trip - except one has very different plans about what's going to happen.
• ​The Job Lot - Sarah Hadland (Miranda) and Russell Tovey (Flesh & Blood) star in this sitcom about people who work at a Midlands job centre (a place that helps the unemployed find work).
• ​The Secret of Crickley Hall - Many will have seen this ghostly 2012 miniseries, but if you haven't, a creepy autumn night is the perfect time to binge it. Suranne Jones (Vincent), Douglas Henshall (Shetland) and Tom Ellis (Miranda) star.
• ​Ethel & Ernest - Based on a true story by Raymond Briggs (The Snowman) about his parents, this animated film sees Brenda Blethyn and Jim Broadbent performing the voices of Ethel and Ernest, an ordinary couple who meet in 1928 and spend a wonderfully ordinary life together - she as a housewife and clerk, he as a milkman.
• ​Frank of Ireland - 33-year-old Frank lives with his mum and struggles to get much of anything right, but he's trying - and that's what this show is about.
• ​Joanna Lumley's Britain - Previously available only on BBC Select, this fun travel series is now free to stream via Prime or Freevee.

Luella Shakespeare: [after noticing that Sebastian is wearing a Shakespearean costume] I didn't think you were performing tonight.

Sebastian Brudenell: I'm not. I just haven't done any laundry for a while.

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​Shakespeare & Hathaway​

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