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It's official: Streamer Acorn TV has teamed back up with ZDF to commission a fourth season of their popular mystery series The Chelsea Detective. Filming is officially underway on the show's fourth outing, which sees star Adrian Scarborough (Killing Eve) reprising his role as Detective Inspector
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There’s great excitement in the penultimate episode of Season 4 of Acorn TV’s The Madame Blanc Mysteries when the much-beloved British TV show Antique Antics comes to Saint-Victoire. In a case of TV imitating TV, Antique Antics is highly reminiscent of Antiques Roadshow and its many other spinoffs.
Ovation
It is a truth universally acknowledged that popular mystery series can pretty much run forever. Midsomer Murders is currently shooting its twenty-fifth season. Death in Paradise has been solving crimes in a tropical paradise for fourteen seasons, and Father Brown has been balancing investigative and spiritual duties for twelve. Heck,
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If anything's a sure thing in the world of entertainment nowadays, it's murder. With procedurals of every stripe popping up everywhere, there's something for every kind of viewer, whether your taste runs to grisly true crime or more cozy series in idyllic locations where
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Filming is officially underway on the new Acorn TV and Channel 5 co-production, Murder Before Evensong. Based on the best-selling series of novels by British author and "celebrity vicar" the Reverend Richard Coles, the series is clearly meant to capitalize on the runaway success of similar mysteries featuring
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The mystery of whether we'd see more of the newly reimagined MIss Scarlet has been swiftly solved. Just days after its Season 5 finale, Masterpiece has announced that the drama has officially been renewed for a sixth outing, with production set to begin this month in Belgrade, Serbia.
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The fifth season of Miss Scarlet — the show's first with a new truncated title and without former leading man Stuart Martin — is over, and several things are true. One: Season 5 improved as it went along. Sure, the mysteries have run the gamut from "completely forgettable"
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Surprise, Miss Scarlet Season 5 is almost over. (Yes, really!) This may come as a shock to some, given that it feels as though we've barely had any time at all to adjust to this revamped incarnation of the series or to get to know the new leading
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Miss Scarlet Season 5 reaches the halfway point with the "The Thames Reaper," an hour that's far and away the best installment of this revamped new era of the show. The episode is well-balanced regarding characters and plots, and the case of the week is fascinating
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Two episodes into the newly revamped Miss Scarlet, and it's evident the show is still finding its feet in this new era. But in a season that's only six episodes long, it's unfortunate that its first third has been so...dull. If nothing else,
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The Duke is dead, long live the Duke. Though the fictional character who used to hold a spot in the series title has not shuffled off this mortal coil by the end of the Miss Scarlet Season 5 premiere, he is really most sincerely gone. It's hard to
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Reinvention happens often in the world of television. Whether for narrative or behind-the-scenes reasons, change is hard-wired into the nature of any long-running series, out of necessity if nothing else. Actors leave, storylines fizzle, platforms shift. Grantchester is in its third Hot Priest era. Miss Scarlet had to change its