Playing Niceis a thriller about a malicious, powerful man consumed with violent, repressed urges. This is simple, classic Gothic material, handled without awareness of style or the pleasures of genre fiction.
Great Slaughter reveals its murderous side at the divisive and unusually scary Scarecrow Festival, which holds the town in a straw-filled stranglehold in Sister Boniface Mysteries Season 4.
Death by Lightning, the Netflix historical drama about the assassination of American President James Garfield, will premiere on the streamer in November.
In a coup for public broadcasting, PBS has acquired the rights to the Channel 4 drama Brian & Maggie, about the BBC interview that brought down Margaret Thatcher.