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—BritBox has been on a roll since early 2024; the BBC never managed to launch its own standalone streaming service (sorry, BBC Select), but when given one that's already on a successful track, the British Broadcaster certainly knows how to program it effectively. The uptick in premium series
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It was back in September 2024 when the BBC announced it was commissioning a new series from Jimmy McGovern, the man behind the award-winning anthology series, Time. McGovern, who is famous in the U.K. for his shows that delve into the British criminal justice system and its shortcomings in
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It’s always the ones you least suspect, as the season finale of Ludwig kicks off with a shocking plot twist. The previous episode ended with Holly calling Lucy, saying she needed to speak to her about her husband. But if you thought we would see that meeting, you were
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How do you solve an unsolvable puzzle? That’s the case Ludwig is trying to crack in Season 1’s penultimate episode. Ludwig and Carter are called to investigate the apparent suicide of a private school headmaster, Mr. Durose (Christopher Parramore). The case resonates with Ludwig because it’s where
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By his own admission, Ludwig is “quite the legend” in the puzzle-making field. But he has one puzzle — reverse chess — that never quite took off. “Nobody could ever solve them,” Ludwig laments. But finally! Finally! Reverse chess gets its moment to shine in Ludwig's fourth episode. In this
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The third episode of Ludwig starts off with the discovery of a dead body inside a church belonging to Megan (Ella Bruccoleri), a 21-year-old American tour guide who was murdered on the last stop of the Cambridge tour she gives every day. Ludwig and Carter set about interviewing everyone who
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TV loves a maverick crime solver. ABC has a hit with High Potential, which finds cleaning woman Morgan Gillory (Kaitlin Gillory) using her extraordinary IQ and memory retention to solve crimes in Los Angeles. Over at CBS, the title character in Elsbeth (Carrie Preston), leverages her quirky powers of observation
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We haven’t even reached the Spring Equinox yet, and David Mitchell is already having a great 2025, with one brand-new murder mystery series set to debut as he’s shooting episodes for another new series, an as-yet-untitled sketch comedy show with his longtime collaborator Robert Webb. Ludwig will arrive
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Though most people are probably familiar with Apple TV+ because of singular hits like Ted Lasso or Severance, the streamer has a relatively significant catalog of excellent original dramas that get much less attention (and which far fewer people have heard of). One of its absolute best is For All
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Most Americans probably first encountered That Mitchell & Webb Look in syndication on BBC America in the early 2010s or streaming on Hulu and Netflix in the twenty-teens. Titular stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb were already quite popular in the U.K., first breaking out with The Mitchell and
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David Mitchell’s latest project, Ludwig, is a genre mashup series that technically falls under the category of a police procedural but is more a little bit of everything, considering that the lead is a well-known comedian. Referred to by the BBC as a “case-of-the-week mystery-crime-comedy-drama,” the series’ first season
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Netflix and the BBC have confirmed that the popular teen thriller A Good Girl's Guide to Murder will be back for another round of teenage crime-solving. The series' first season introduced Pippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi, a young true crime enthusiast who becomes convinced her small town's