Timothy Spall stars as a man who played a detective on TV, solving crimes in his retirement.
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One of the brightest spots of the 2020s has been the uptick in British cozy crime shows on American streaming services. Thus far in 2025, it has been an embarrassment of riches on both Acorn TV and BritBox over the last five months, including (but not limited to) Ludwig, Art
Better Late Than Never
TV loves a maverick crime solver. You know the type. They aren’t officially a detective or on any police force. But somehow, they are experts on cracking the case. It’s not just a British trope either. Think ABC’s High Potential, where the cleaning woman with an extraordinarily
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Fictional detectives always have odd names, from Arthur Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie's funny little Belgian, Poirot, who was given the first name "Hercule." Fictional TV detectives also have unusual names, such as Columbo and Matlock. The latter is what Only
BritBox
BritBox is chugging along in 2025, full steam ahead, no holds barred, cozy crime caper after cozy crime caper, with a few A-list British actors starring in horrifying thrillers in between and the occasional reality series. April highlighted all of those aspects with Ludwig, the David Mitchell-starring, “case-of-the-week mystery-crime-comedy-drama.” Now
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With the financial backing of the BBC and Robert Schildhouse as its new CEO, BritBox has a new lease on life for 2025. The U.K.-centric streamer, initially a joint project between the BBC and ITV to prevent international piracy of iPlayer and ITV's streaming service, was
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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