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'Blue Lights' Season 4 to Bring Back Season 1 Fan Favorite
BritBox's sleeper hit 'Blue Lights' has started production on Season 4, and there are several faces, both new and old, heading to Belfast.
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Ireland's answer to 'The Wire', this smart copaganda series tackles life on the streets of Belfast.
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'Blue Lights' Season 3 Will Begin Ride Alongs in November
The 2020s began with a reckoning over shows that glorify law enforcement, but instead of changing the landscape, the five years that followed seem to have only doubled down on such things. There are more Law & Order shows than ever, and dozens of shows with alphabet soup levels of
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'Blue Lights' Season 3 Trailer Brings Complications & Cupcakes
The 2020s will be remembered for many things. However, one small part of the entertainment landscape will probably end up overlooked: the sharp increase in murder mysteries and police procedural television in the Western world. From true crime to dramatic thrillers to cozy crime, these shows, referred to in the
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'Mr Bates' Creator Talks Season 2 After BAFTA Win
PBS did something deeply unusual during the 2023-2024 TV season. Normally, schedules are set months in advance, and in the case of something like Masterpiece, where premiere dates are dictated by when the show airs in the U.K., there's a lot of shifting around of series to
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'Rivals' & 'Slow Horses' Go Head to Head in TV BAFTA Nominations
The 2024-2025 TV season is quickly wrapping up, as the next few weeks will be the debuts of all sorts of shows looking for a little awards love, at least here in the States. The Emmy Awards, the U.S.' official national television honors, are one of the few
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'Blue Lights' Announces High-Profile Castings for Season 3
It’s rare for the BBC to greenlight more than one season at a time, and certainly not before the current one has aired, which is why the announcement the network was giving Blue Lights a third and fourth season before Season 2 arrived in early 2024 was a bit
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BritBox's 2025 Slate Kicks Off with 'Vera' Season 14
Since the BBC bought ITV out of its half of BritBox International nearly a year ago in February 2024, there have been changes afoot. The BBC promised it would not alter the programming strategy or really interfere with BritBox's decision-making; after all, Aunty Beeb had tried and failed
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'Blue Lights' Creators On Viewing The Troubles from All Sides & Season 3 Ideas
In its second season, the engrossing cop shop/found family drama Blue Lights has continued to delve deeply and sensitively into daily life among the officers of a Belfast police precinct. This season’s overarching plot directly addresses the continuing echoes of The Troubles, the sectarian civil war that tore
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Action, Humor, and Heart: A ‘Blue Lights’ Recipe For Success Brewed Up in Belfast
The first and most important thing you need to know about Blue Lights – returning for its second 6-episode season on BritBox this week – is Belfast. It’s set in Belfast, its co-creators and writers are Belfast natives, it stars actors from the greater Belfast metropolitan area, and it’s about
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'Blue Lights' Season 2 Builds on Its Relevancy
The acclaimed police procedural Blue Lights launches its second season on BritBox as part of the BBC's first moves to take the already successful streaming service and hyper-fuel it with some of the British Broadcasting Corporation's high-profile critical hits. Kicking the new drive to bring in
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'Blue Lights' Season 2 Lands June Premiere on BritBox
The BBC's new cop dramady, Blue Lights, was a surprise hit when it debuted in the U.K. in 2023. Set in the Belfast frontline response unit, the series' first order of business was always going to have to square convincing its audiences to watch a piece
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'Blue Lights' Season 2 Introduces New Team Members
Blue Lights Season 2 has officially landed an April 2024 release in the U.K. for the highly anticipated second season. The series, which launched its debut season on BBC One in the final week of March 2023, has been one of the BBC's biggest police procedurals in