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Quirky, fan-favorite crime drama The Brokenwood Mysteries returns with an all-new season exclusively on Acorn TV in the US and Canada on Monday, April 21. Additional episodes of the series’ six-episode eleventh season drop weekly on Mondays on the platform.

Starring Neill Rea as Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd and Fern Sutherland (The Almighty Johnsons) as by-the-book Detective Kristin Sims, the captivating series sees the formidable duo and their team investigate crimes in the sleepy and secret-filled town of Brokenwood, New Zealand.

From seemingly supernatural incidents in the idyllic community of Brokenwood to mysterious murders with hidden motives, Season 11 of the series sees Shepherd and his team plunge into a web of deception, greed, and dark secrets, using less-than-conventional methods to tackle their most perplexing cases yet.

The all-new season of The Brokenwood Mysteries also sees the return of Cristina Serban Ionda (Filthy Rich) as eccentric pathologist Dr. Gina Kadinsky and...

November 16, 2019 marked a pivotal moment in the recent history of the British royal family. On that ill-fated day, the BBC’s flagship news program, Newsnight, aired an hour-long interview between journalist Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The interview, which swiftly turned the prince into a meme sensation for all the wrong reasons, ultimately led to his eventual removal from royal duties and ex-communication from public life.

Amazon’s three-part series A Very Royal Scandal, executive-produced by Maitlis and directed by Julian Jarrold, dramatizes the events leading up to, during, and following that interview. It focuses specifically on allegations that Andrew (Michael Sheen) engaged in sexual relations with a minor, who was trafficked by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (John Hopkins). Given how recent and well-documented these events are, one might wonder what a dramatization like this could add to the public record. Unfortunately, the answer is not very much.

Quick Links Beregond Became Pippin's Closest Ally Beregond Saved Faramir's Life Aragorn Decided Beregond's Fate In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Pippin befriended a Gondorian soldier named Beregond. Beregond played a pivotal role in the Siege of Minas Tirith from The Return of the King. Beregond's story exemplified the gray morality of war.

Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was famous for, among other things, its lengthy runtime. Even still, Jackson could not adapt every character and plot line from J. R. R. Tolkien's expansive novel. One such excluded character was Beregond, a Gondorian soldier whom Pippin befriended while in Minas Tirith. Earlier drafts of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King featured Ian Hughes as Beregond. However, Jackson eventually cut the Beregond subplot to streamline the story and emphasize Pippin's bond with Gandalf, so he...