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Two series of homicide detectives drama to shoot back-to-back; North American debut expected next winter.

North American streaming channel Acorn TV has given a two-season straight-to-series commission to London Kills, a UK-set drama from Footballers’ Wives creator Paul Marquess.

The series is currently casting and is scheduled to go into production in May. Acorn Media Enterprises, the UK-based development division of the Rlj Entertainment channel, will co-produce with Marquess’ Pgmtv.

The companies will shoot the two series – each consisting of five one-hour episodes – back-to-back, with a North American debut expected next winter.

Acorn Media International will distribute in all English-speaking...

Are you a fan of television from faraway lands?

Maybe you don't even know how much you enjoy shows produced in foreign countries because it's not crossed your mind to think about it.

A lot of the shows we watch in the Us are (dare I say it?) reboots of programming that has already aired elsewhere. While we're lucky enough to get some shows (Downton Abbey, Rosehaven, The A Word, Doctor Who), many others are left across the seas.

Some very savvy people finally got wise to the fact that for every person in the Us who loved The Killing, another might have wanted to see the original. Today I'm talking about the first of three online networks that bring to you programming from around the world.

Acorn TV is a subscription streaming service that offers world-class mysteries, dramas, comedies, and documentaries from Britain and beyond. They add programming weekly...

76 women sign open letter to commissioners that claims British drama is “overwhelmingly written by men”.

A group of more than 70 female writers has accused UK drama bosses of failing to give them opportunities to ‘graduate’ from soaps to flagship primetime shows (reports Broadcast).

In an open letter to TV drama commissioners, 76 women, whose work ranges from EastEnders and Casualty to Midsomer Murders, Hollyoaks and Us series How To Get Away With Murder, claimed British drama is “overwhelmingly written by men”.

The letter was prompted by a recent ITV drama release that set out 10 upcoming shows for 2018, but featured just one written by a woman – Gwyneth Hughes’ adaptation of Vanity Fair. The broadcaster has since announced a second series of Kate Brooke’s detective drama Bancroft.

The signatories, who include The Coroner creator Sally Abbott, writer and actress Sarah Solemani and Debbie Moon, who devised Cbbc’s Wolfblood, said there is an “untapped resource” of female writers who have cut...

She’s leaving the White House, but she’s not leaving ABC.

Scandal star Bellamy Young has lined up her next TV role, signing on to star in the ABC pilot False Profits, TVLine has learned. A comedic soap described as “Desperate Housewives meets Glengarry Glen Ross,” Profits follows a group of suburban Arizona women as they battle it out for supremacy in the multi-level cosmetics game. Young will play Laura, a single mom with two kids who’s just signed on to sell cosmetics… and has no idea what she’s in for.

Kayla Alpert (Code Black, Up All Night) will pen the pilot.

With her Bravo series Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce coming to an end, Lisa Edelstein is developing a new starring vehicle for herself with Girlfriends’ Guide former executive producer Carol Barbee and studio Universal Cable Prods. Additionally, the House alumna has been tapped for a recurring role opposite Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin on the new Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method. Edelstein is attached to star in an hourlong dramedy based on the book Confessions…...

Girlfriends star Phyllis Logan says she never planned to play housekeeper Elsie Hughes fox six years and that had she been told her run on Downton Abbey would last that long it would have given her pause. At TCA to discuss playing newly widowed Linda on Acorn TV’s Girlfriends, Logan noted she embarked on her acting career in “nineteen hundred and frozen to death” with a goal to play as many different roles as possible, including playing “old grannies and young blokes.&#8221…...

Rob Leane Kirsten Howard Mar 6, 2018

Wondering what to watch? Here’s our rundown of 2018’s new British dramas...

As we surge into 2018, the impressive amount of top-quality dramas emanating from our home-grown channels is showing no signs of decreasing.

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There are plentiful programmes you’ll want to watch and/or record for later, as Britain’s best broadcasters battle it out for your attention and affections. Here, then, is a big long list of shows to look forward to in 2018...

The Innocents

Guy Pearce stars as a mysterious character currently only known as 'Halvorson' in Netflix's new 8-part supernatural teen...

The Oscar-nominated actor is about to star in both TV comedy-drama Girlfriends, and alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger, a film about the Boston Marathon bombing. She talks about working with Weinstein and why she’d love to return to SNL

‘I’m not known as a commercial babe,” says Miranda Richardson, matter-of-factly. “But actually I thought, well, why the hell not do this for a minute, and see if I can hack it?” Richardson is talking about her upcoming primetime ITV comedy-drama Girlfriends, the latest from Kay Mellor, which follows three lifelong friends as they navigate their 50s together. But we’re also here to talk about Stronger, a weighty real-life drama about Jeff Bauman (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombings. Richardson is a tour de force as Jeff’s mother, Patty, a meddling, needy drunk who struggles to let go of her son.