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General British TV Discussion thread 2025

These seem to fill up more when we discuss all British shows......

This one sounds interesting, and has hottie Matthew Lewis.

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by Anonymousreply 24July 15, 2025 9:20 PM

Matthew Lewis.....sigh

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by Anonymousreply 1January 4, 2025 10:26 PM

New (2024) miniseries on Britbox: "Protection," about a police officer who works in the Witness Protection program. Stars Siobhan Finneran (that bitch O'Brien from "Downton") with a horrendous blonde wig. And the always-cunty Katherine Kelly. Superhot Jonathan Cake shows up as well.

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by Anonymousreply 2January 6, 2025 3:44 PM

NYT recommended a 4-episode miniseries about a TV host who gets canceled with Hugh Bonneville in the starring role. Has anybody here seen it and, if so, is it worth watching?

by Anonymousreply 3January 6, 2025 4:33 PM

I've seen it, r3. I think it's called "Douglas is Cancelled". Great performances and snappy, but it turns very preachy in the last episode or two about men and micro-agressions.

by Anonymousreply 4January 6, 2025 8:47 PM

Didn't Hugh get cancelled when some underling of his pegged him in the butt?

by Anonymousreply 5January 6, 2025 9:47 PM

New series "Patience" premiered stateside tonight. From what I've seen so far, it appears to be a rehash of the French show "Astrid."

Also beginning tonight is Season 10 of "Grantshire."

by Anonymousreply 6June 16, 2025 12:30 AM

^ "Grantchester"

Oy!

by Anonymousreply 7June 16, 2025 12:32 AM

I'd do him.

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by Anonymousreply 8June 16, 2025 1:38 AM

Acorn is getting ambitious with their original detective shows. They’ve just debuted anothernew series, “Art Detectives” starring Stephen Moyer of “True Blood” fame, as DI who investigates art-related thefts and murders.

Totally formula and by-the-book but a nice Sunday evening’s entertainment. Each case is solved in an hour, so the mysteries aren’t very complex. The first two episodes have dropped.

by Anonymousreply 9June 16, 2025 1:50 AM

I'm eagerly anticipating that show on the Mitford sisters that should be coming to Britbox relatively soon.

by Anonymousreply 10June 16, 2025 1:52 AM

Is S10 of "Grantchester" premiering in the UK? Because it ain't on PBS yet.

by Anonymousreply 11June 16, 2025 2:46 AM

R11 - Grantchester is starting tonight on PBS.

by Anonymousreply 12June 16, 2025 2:52 AM

That episode of Patience whizzed by fast.

by Anonymousreply 13June 16, 2025 4:19 AM

Who does the hair and wigs on Grantchester? Because Rishi's poufy hair NEVER moves. It's like Ken doll hair (but not nearly as plastic-looking as Mrs. C's). And I can let his anachronistic beard go, but NOT the neck beard.

The mysteries have become insipid (strippers! Easter fetes!) and the solutions easy to guess, so I just look at the show's production values. I do covet Rishi's little sports car, though.

And now Geordie's son likes dresses, and Leonard's about one sherry away from an AA meeting. Great...

by Anonymousreply 14July 3, 2025 8:32 PM

I really, really dislike what they did to the woman character, Geordie’s assistant. (Forget her name). Larry was a dumb nut and neither she nor Geordie had any use for him but now he’s suddenly smarter and fiancé material. Ugh.

by Anonymousreply 15July 3, 2025 8:58 PM

[quote]After more than a decade, it's been announced that Grantchester will end with Season 11

Thank goodness they're finally putting us out of our misery.

by Anonymousreply 16July 9, 2025 2:55 PM

[quote] Didn't Hugh get cancelled when some underling of his pegged him in the butt?

Nah, that was a celebrity prostitute and he has paid a mint in super injunctions so it is not mentioned in England.

by Anonymousreply 17July 9, 2025 3:00 PM

[quote] After more than a decade, it's been announced that Grantchester will end with Season 11

Such a shame James Norton and many other aged out of James Bond.

by Anonymousreply 18July 9, 2025 3:01 PM

[quote] Didn't Hugh get cancelled when some underling of his pegged him in the butt?

I would've done it for free and been more discrete.

by Anonymousreply 19July 9, 2025 3:10 PM

So Alphy's Big Secret is that he... was left at an orphanage as an infant? Well, thanks for putting Rishi in a tank top for a few minutes (nice guns, padre...). I'm sure that's all we'll get now, when back when the show was good (well, better) James Norton and Robson Green went swimming in the river.

by Anonymousreply 20July 9, 2025 5:42 PM

Oh, dear, R19. The word is DISCREET .

by Anonymousreply 21July 9, 2025 7:59 PM

Oof, that last episode of Grantchester was BAD. There was no mystery as to whodunit -- it had to be father and son because there was no one else it could have been other than the main cast. So let's fill some time with a lot of blather about fathers never telling their sons they loved them, with a side of matrimonial nonsense for Larry and Miss Scott. If I were Dickens I'd run away.

by Anonymousreply 22July 15, 2025 8:04 PM

DEPT. Q

Scottish Police drama set in Edinburgh. Carl is a top rated detective who is traumatized after a violent incident and is also an asshole. It's holding my interest so far.

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by Anonymousreply 23July 15, 2025 8:57 PM

Two threads for you. One is Dept Q and the other is Alexej Manvelov.

Just search for DEPT Q

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by Anonymousreply 24July 15, 2025 9:20 PM
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