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One of the coolest and most beloved sub-genres for thriller, action, and drama fans is the spy genre and there’s a good reason. In a spy film or series, we get complicated and cool characters who put their lives on the line by going against numerous people and instead of always letting their guns talk they use more covert tactics, which are always thrilling to watch. So, Prime Video being what it is, it has a large library of content and also some of the best spy shows you can find and that’s what inspired us to compile a list of the best spy shows you can watch on Prime Video right now.

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Chuck is a spy action comedy-drama series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The NBC series follows the story of Chuck Bartowski,...

Death In Paradise returns to our screens in February, and the BBC have released plot and cast details.

Death In Paradise has been one of the BBC’s most successful dramas in recent years. Created by Robert Thorogood in 2011, the show’s thirteenth series is about to hit our screens. It has seen Ben Miller, Kris Marshall, Ardal O’Hanlon and current detective Ralf Little solve a remarkably high number of murders for such a small Caribbean island.

Last year, Marshall’s character Humphrey Goodman starred in spin-off Beyond Paradise, which paired him with Not Going Out star Sally Bretton and relocated the action to Cornwall. Proving popular with viewers, it recently returned for a Christmas special and a second series will be broadcast this year.

A further spin off, entitled Return to Paradise was announced last year, with action taking place in Australia.

Death In Paradise itself is back for a new series,...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Boxing Day”), Alistair Petrie (“Sex Education”), Romola Garai (“The Hour”) have joined BBC drama series “The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies.”

Rounding out the cast are Rebekah Staton (“Raised by Wolves”), Derek Jacobi (“Last Tango in Halifax”), Julian Barratt (“The Mighty Boosh”), Karl Johnson (“Hot Fuzz”) and Ellie Haddington (“Enola Holmes”).

Robbie McKillop (“Guilt”) and Nicole Charles (“Hair Power: Me and My Afro”) will split directing duties on the series, which was created and written by Penelope Skinner and Ginny Skinner.

Production has already begun on the series, which will be distributed internationally by BBC Studios.

“This is the story of two very different women and the conman they have in common; a dark, funny, and unpredictable thriller about three remarkable characters trapped in a tangled triangle of complexly layered half-truths and lies of epic proportions,” reads the logline.

The series is produced by...

Surge Trailer — Aneil Karia‘s Surge (2020) UK movie trailer has been released by BritFlicks. The Surge trailer stars Ben Whishaw, Ellie Haddington, Jasmine Jobson, Laurence Spellman, Ryan McKen, Stacha Hicks, Bradley Taylor, Muna Otaru, Ray Calleja, Bogdan Kominowski, and Lucy Thackeray. Crew Rupert Jones, Rita Kalnejais, and Aneil Karia wrote the screenplay for Surge. Tujiko [...]

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"The police are looking for you." Opening this week in cinemas in the UK is this week is this intense British thriller titled Surge, set in London following a man who begins to fall apart over 24 hours. This premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival last year and was instantly compared to Joker, but it doesn't really have that kind of vibe. Surge "is a stripped back thriller about a man who goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation." Ben Whishaw stars, with Ellie Haddington and Jasmine Jobson. It's an eerie, slow burn film that builds to a boil and tries to make a point, but overall feels muddled in its attempts to make that point. But it is uncomfortable filmmaking and tries be honest so I respect that it gives us something more than just another expected story. This trailer came out months ago but we just caught up with it now.

As Joseph (Ben Whishaw) sits at the table with his parents (Ellie Haddington and Ian Gelder), he puts his mouth to a glass. He wraps his lips around the rim as his breathing starts to heave. The others continue eating; he starts to lock his jaw. Then the glass cracks. He’s done this before a lot but never like this, and when he finds himself spitting blood into the bathroom sink with his mom screaming on the other side of the door, it seems that his tics have finally caught up with him.

That’s not to say he’s ever been a lax guy, but, to put it lightly, some things are getting to him. There are too many people, not enough manners. It’s too loud outside his apartment, too quiet inside his own head. It seems that only his job as an airport checkpoint officer grants...

There’s mannered, there’s manic, and then there’s the malfunctioning pinball-machine delirium that Ben Whishaw brings to “Surge”: a blinking, buzzing, flashing clatter of hyper-accelerated impulses, chicken-fried synapses and staggered hypnic jerks that never culminate in sleep. You wouldn’t expect stillness from a film called “Surge,” and in that respect only does Whishaw zig where you expect him to zig — to say nothing of his character, a humdrum airport worker who one day snaps in spectacularly feral fashion, embarking on the unlikeliest of London crime sprees. It’s quite a performance, sure to exhilarate some and aggravate others, and it joins the dots of Aneil Karia’s stylish if somewhat overstimulated debut feature while adding several disconnected ones of its own.

A rare shot of genuinely frenzied energy in British genre cinema, “Surge” seems likely to prompt comparisons to the recent work of Benny and Josh Safdie — in particular,...

Exclusive: Protagonist Pictures has boarded world sales on Sundance-bound drama-thriller Surge, starring Ben Whishaw. Here’s a first look at the buzzed-about UK film.

Whishaw stars as a man trapped in a soulless job, living a life devoid of emotion and meaning. After an impulsive act of rebellion, he unleashes a wilder version of himself and is propelled on a reckless journey though London, ultimately experiencing what it feels like to be alive.

Produced by Julia Godzinskaya and Sophie Vickers of The Witch and The Other Lamb outfit Rooks Nest and co-produced by Scott O’Donnell, the movie marks the feature debut of UK director Aneil Karia who recently shot the closing three episodes of Netflix series Top Boy.

Before that, Karia directed the opening block of Pure, produced by Drama Republic for Channel 4, and in 2016 his short Work was BAFTA and Bifa-nominated.

Also among cast are Ian Gelder...

The Foyle's War TV show on ITV was cancelled after eight seasons, because of rising production costs. Creator Anthony Horowitz tells Digital Spy he was ready for the British detective drama series to end. In the Us, some seasons of Foyle's War aired on PBS. The complete Foyle's War TV series is available for streaming on Acorn.TV (but Acorn's series numbering is confusing).

Foyle's War is set during and after World War II, with the eighth and final season set in 1947. Michael Kitchen stars as detective Christopher Foyle. The Doyle's War TV series cast also includes: Honeysuckle Weeks, Ellie Haddington, Tim McMullan, Daniel Weyman, Jeremy Swift, Rupert Vansittart, and Hermione Gulliford.

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ITV has announced that Foyle's War will end after its current series.

The long-running period drama starring Michael Kitchen will air its final episode on Sunday (January 18) at 8pm.

The final episode 'Elise' will see Christopher Foyle (Kitchen) solving his final ever case in the two-hour special. It will feature Foyle looking into Hilda Pierce's (Ellie Haddington) secret role during the war, following an assassination attempt on her life.

Writer and creator Anthony Horowitz said: "It feels a terrible wrench to say goodbye to characters I've lived with for more than 15 years. But the truth is that I'm not sure there are any more stories to tell and anyway it was always my intention to end on a high note and I think this year's episodes are the very best we've done.

"I'm proud of what we've achieved with Foyle's War and I'm very grateful to the audience that has...

Foyle’s War The Eternity Ring

Filming has begun on the ninth season of Foyle’s War. Michael Kitchen returns to play the stoical title character in Anthony Horowitz’s British TV classic. The three new films also feature returning cast members such as Honeysuckle Weeks, Ellie Haddington and Daniel Weyman. Big name guest stars include John Mahoney (Frasier, Hot In Cleveland), Richard Lintern (Silent Witness), Nigel Lindsay (Four Lions), Jaime Winstone (Mad Dogs) and William Postlethwaite (Midsomer Murders). As with season eight, the new series centers around events at the outset of the Cold War. These include the creation of the state of Israel and the hunt for those who allied themselves with the Nazis. Foyle’s War season nine will air in both the UK and USA in early 2015.

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Foyle’s War Set 7 is a treat for fans of the long-running series, but a possible sour note as well, as our titular investigator actually moves outside the titular conflict. We not only move outside the setting of the show, but into a new world of Foyle’s efforts, and apparently a new theory of the character as well. Call it progress, I suppose, but some fans may find themselves in for a surprise when taking on this new Foyle.

What started out as a very interesting look at an investigator of unusual calm working in a backdrop of World War II outside the normal focus of the war, has now gone post-War, and sees our hero pressed into service with MI5. From not exactly police to not exactly spy, Foyle finds himself involved in ever more curious exploits which leaves us with little remaining familiar except the star and the title.

Foyle’s War was considered one of the best British mysteries on television, but was cancelled in 2007. Three years passed and three more episodes, known as Foyle’s War Set 7 were filmed and broadcast on PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!” The show’s creator Anthony Horowitz has set the show in the town of Hastings, on the south coast of England. World War II may be over but the Cold War simmers. Dcs Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen, Out of Africa) has retired from police work when Britain’s secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright (Honeysuckle Weeks – My Brother Tom), Foyle faces new—but no less deadly—threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence The Foyle’s War series is terrific entertainment that incorporates real historical events into the episodes. Foyle always gets his man (or woman as the case...

Foyle’s War The Eternity Ring

Kieran Kinsella

Foyle’s War returns to the U.S. this September in three all-new adventures that you can watch across a variety of different platforms. The new series is set just after the end of World War II, and Foyle is doing his bit to detect and prevent communist infiltration in the UK. Honeysuckle Weeks, Tim McMullen, Ellie Haddington and Daniel Weyman are among the other big name actors who are set to appear in the new series.

The Episodes

The new season kicks off with a complex spy thriller titled The Eternity Ring. The action begins in the New Mexico desert in 1945 as a team of scientists witness the detonation of an atomic bomb. Fast forward one year, and the Soviet Nkvd are on the trail of Aleksei Gorin — a clerk who has been stealing documents from the Soviet’s London embassy.

Hollywood legends. Scary French mysteries. Typically British seaside comedies. We're trotting across the globe for this week's edition of Must-See TV, and the best bit is you don't even have to leave your sofa!

And with the sun shining brightly, we imagine many of your minds will be drifting back to the glorious summer of 2012 and the majesty of the London Olympics.

Luckily for those feeling nostalgic, the Beeb will be screening the London Anniversary Games, which marks one year since the Olympic Opening Ceremony. Coverage from the Olympic Stadium kicks off Friday, July 26 at 7.30pm on BBC Two.

Burton and Taylor: Monday (July 22) at 9pm on BBC Four

Helena Bonham Carter is out to smother all painful memories of Lindsay Lohan in Liz & Dick, as she gives surely a far more accomplished performance of the late, great Elizabeth Taylor in this new feature-length BBC Four drama.

Dominic West stars as Richard Burton,...

TV questions - you asked them. Answers - we got them. Now all we've got to do is tell you them here in our ever-popular (with our mums) Tube Talk Q&A.

This week we've got exclusive Glee scoop from the Monte Carlo TV Festival, return dates for Community and CSI: NY, and a whole lot more. Read on for the details...

I'm so sad that Glee's over! Any scoop on the new season?

In case you hadn't noticed, half of the Tube Talk team have been off sunning it up in Monaco this week at the 53rd Monte Carlo TV Festival (we're not bitter... not at all). While there we've managed to get plenty of scoop on Mr Selfridge, Chicago Fire, Revolution, Grimm and Criminal Minds, which you really should check out when you have a sec.

And, as luck would have it, we also got to sit...

Foyle’s War Acorn Media PBS

Acorn Media acquired the rights to Foyle’s War earlier this year and the first episodes of the Acorn era are set to air on PBS Masterpiece Theatre next summer. Michael Kitchen returns to play the title character who is now focusing his attentions on espionage. The new series is set just after the end of World War II, and Foyle is doing his bit to detect and prevent communist infiltration in the UK. Honeysuckle Weeks, Tim McMullen, Ellie Haddington and Daniel Weyman are among the other big name actors who are set to appear in the three two-hour long stories.

Downton Abbey’s Rebecca Eaton is executive producer and she is setting expectations high by claiming that “loyal American fans will be thrilled.” Eleventh Hour Films are producing the drama for PBS and fans can whet their appetites by taking in Foyle’s...

An adaptation and completion of Charles Dickens’s last novel, Edwin Drood, left unfinished at the halfway mark at his death on 9 June 1870, comes to BBC2 on Tuesday 10th January 2012.

A strange, disturbing and modern tale about drugs, stalking and darkness visible, The Mystery of Edwin Drood by writer Gwyneth Hughes is a two-part psychological thriller about a provincial choirmaster’s obsession with 17-year-old Rosa Bud and the lengths he will go to to attain her.

Matthew Rhys stars as John Jasper, Tamzin Merchant (represented by Curtis Brown) as Rosa Bud, with 22 year old Freddie Fox (represented by Tavistock Wood) as Edwin Drood.

Tamzin, from Brighton, played Daenerys in the Game of Thrones pilot and starred as Katherine Howard in the series The Tudors. Freddie, graduated from Guildhall drama school in 2010, and was recently seen in Any Human Heart and The Shadow Line. Tamzin and Freddie are now dating, after...

Right now, I'm disturbed by a hubbub outside the window. A whopping great tractor is trying and failing to park in a cul-de-sac just over the road. No great surprise about that in theory – except that I've seen bigger cul-de-sacs in Trumpton. Tractor guy's already getting grief from a couple of creaky old codgers waving their fists aloft like he's just threatened to crush their cottages to rubble with his clunky vehicle.

What's this got to do with Doctor Who, I hear you cry. Well now, it just so happens that I've reached the last story of the 2007 season, no less: the equivalent of an old school six-parter. A big finale that brings back The Doctor's wretched nemesis, The Master, who's now wreaking havoc in two forms: an apparently genial old fossil on a futuristic planet and then in a younger version who's evidently been living on a crash diet of chocolates,...

Royle Family duo Craig Cash and Ralf Little have reunited for new Sky1 sitcom The Cafe. Cash has directed the series, which is based around a family business in Weston-super-Mare, run by a mother, grandmother and daughter on the seafront. June Watson, Ellie Haddington and Michelle Terry take on the lead roles of Mary, Carol and Sarah. Little, who has written the script with Michelle Terry (Reunited), plays Sarah's ex-boyfriend Richard who is a musician by night and care home worker by day. Daniel Ings is cast as successful events manager and former love rival John, who returns to Weston and ruffles some feathers. David Troughton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jack Roth, Kevin Trainor and Seeta Indrani are also among the cast. Cash's previous award-winning TV credits include The Royle Family, Early (more)...

Outfest

Things and people aren't always as they seem in "Lawless Heart", a poignant, intriguingly constructed film about love and loss set in Great Britain's scenic Essex countryside.

Using a funeral as a jump-off point, writer-directors Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger ("Boyfriends") follow the emotional journeys of a trio of male protagonists through three very different perspectives.

First, there's Dan (Bill Nighy), a devoted husband and father whose fidelity is put to the test when he meets an engaging French woman (Clementine Celarie) while attending the funeral of his wife's (Ellie Haddington) gay brother.

Then, there's Nick (Tom Hollander), the grieving boyfriend of Dan's restaurateur brother-in-law who finds himself increasingly attracted to the colorful Charlie (a terrific Sukie Smith), a supermarket checkout girl whom he first met when she passed out on his bed during a party at his house.

Finally, there's Tim (Douglas Henshall), Dan's cousin who has returned home after traveling the world for eight years. Temporarily bunking at Nick Place,'s the ne'er-do-well Tim becomes smitten with Leah (Josephine Butler), a dress shop proprietor who still has feelings for Tim's adopted brother, David, with whom she had an affair.

While it might all sound a trifle soapy on paper, Hunter and Hunsinger, not to mention their uniformly skilled cast, keep the various relationships grounded and tangle-free while fleshing them out with some gentle humor and incisive observations.

The result is a lyrical, affecting survey of modern romance with a decidedly English accent.