A Confession

CAST: Jessica D'Arcy, Florence Howard, Lolly Jones, Darcy Vanhinsbergh
A woman has gone missing. Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher goes after the killer - even if this would mean the end of his career.

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Gentleman Jack
CREATOR: Sally Wainwright
CAST: Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle & Timothy West
In this British historical period series Anne Lister returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall. Gentlemen Jack is a BBC production.

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Manhunt
CREATOR: N/A
CAST: Martin Clunes, Claudie Blakley & Katie Lyons
A detective from the London Metropolitan Police Department, Collin Sutton is chasing a serial killer. He has started a manhunt for Levi Bellfield, a brutal serial killer.

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Good Omens
CREATOR: Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
CAST: Adria Arjona, Brian Cox, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ilan Galkoff
A tale about an upcoming Armagedon that mixes a number of popular dark fantasy figurers. Good Omens features a witch, a demon and the anti-christ. It is based on the 1990 novel by the same name.... Read more

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Hard Sun
CREATOR: N/A
CAST: Jim Sturgess, Agyness Deyn & Nikki Amuka-Bird
From the makers of cop series Luther, there is Hard Sun, in which two radically different detectives have to team up to in a pre-apocalyptic world of crime.

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RATING: 75/100

RELEASE DATE: January 6th, 2018

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Altered Carbon
CREATOR: Laeta Kalogridis
CAST: Joel Kinnaman, Martha Higareda & Chris Conner
Set in a distant future, the series envisages a technology that enables humans to sail through the experience of death just physically as their memories and experiences can be downloaded and... Read more

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RATING: 80/100

RELEASE DATE: January 4th, 2017

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Vanity Fair
CREATOR: N/A
CAST: Olivia Cooke, Tom Bateman & Claudia Jessie
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RATING: 70/100

RELEASE DATE: May 18th, 2019

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McMafia
CREATOR: Hossein Amini, James Watkins
CAST: James Norton, David Strathairn & Juliet Rylance
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend,... Read more

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RATING: /100

RELEASE DATE: May 18th, 2019

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Collateral
CREATOR: N/A
CAST: Carey Mulligan, Jeany Spark, Nicola Walker, Nathaniel Martello-White
A BBC Crime Drama starring Carey Mulligan as a detective in modern-day Britain that should give us an insight in the modern day state of the nation of the UK. It produced by BBC Two and Netflix, and... Read more

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RATING: /100

RELEASE DATE: May 18th, 2019

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Britannia
CREATOR: David Morrissey, Kelly Reilly & Nikolaj Lie Kaas
CAST: Kelly Reilly, David Morrissey & Nikolaj Lie Kaas
A huge Sky Atlantic and Amazon Video Production featuring many of British tv stars. It's an epic historic war show set in In 43 AD. It's about the fight against the Roman army and the local... Read more

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RATING: /100

RELEASE DATE: May 18th, 2019

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Gunpowder
CREATOR: Ronan Bennett, Kit Harington & Daniel West
CAST: Kit Harington, Mark Gatiss & Edward Holcroft
Game of Thrones' sweetheart Kit Harington in a great UK Series about an important part of British history. He plays the famous 17th century activist Guy Fawkes who plans to kill King James the...

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RATING: 88/100

RELEASE DATE: May 18th, 2019

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Taboo
CREATOR: Chips Hardy, Tom Hardy, Steven Knight
CAST: Tom Hardy, Jonathan Pryce & Jessie Buckley
In the beginning of the 1800's, an adventurer builds his own shipping empire. A show co-created by Tom Hardy.

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RATING: 88/100

RELEASE DATE: January 7th, 2017

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Cormoran Strike
CREATOR: N/A
CAST: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Kerr Logan, Killian Scott
A supermodel's suicide in London might be a murder. Detective Cormoran Strike is on the case in this detective tv show penned by Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. It will be the first out of a series based on three books.

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RATING: 80/100

RELEASE DATE: January 9th, 2017

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The Halcyon
CREATOR: Charlotte Jones
CAST: Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel, Britt Baron
Basically the idea of Downton Abbey but then taking place in a 1940's glamorous London five star hotel.

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RATING: 72/100

RELEASE DATE: January 2nd, 2017

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Sherlock
CREATOR: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat
CAST: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman & Rupert Graves
Sherlock is not yet another Sherlock Holmes brand rip-off. This British BBC Detective show takes the most famous fictional private detective to modern-day London, and finds an excellent form to do so. Sherlock, played by the incredibly talented Benedict Cumberbatch (now also with a great role in 12 Years a Slave), describes himself aptly as a ‘highly functional sociopath’, but as the series progresses, we find that his kind heart pierces through (perhaps a bit too much in season 3, almost de-mystifying him). Together with his loyal friend Watson, he solves incredibly complex cases in the heart of London loosely based on original Arthur Conan O’Doyle stories. Season 1 and 2 are definitely must-see detectives as they are incredibly fresh and genuine, but in season 3 in 2014 the show unfortunately moves a little too much away from the original stories, and takes too much advantage of humor and Sherlock’s sensitive side.

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RATING: 92/100

RELEASE DATE: October 24th, 2010

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Black Mirror
CREATOR: Charlie Brooker
CAST: Daniel Lapaine, Hannah John-Kamen, Michaela Coel, Beatrice Robertson-Jones
A television anthology series that shows the dark side of life and technology. Orwellian images of our future not only appear in books – BBC’s Black Mirror brilliantly paints a picture that is as shocking as it is near. Each episode introduces a new theme, cast and forecast. The dark side of life and technology is played out in near-future scenarios in which technology has quite a disputable influence. Most of these scenarios are not even fully improbable, which, along with the dramatic powerplay, constitutes it’s strength. The only bother in Black Mirror: its first episode is the best one by far, which make the following episodes seem inferior. Beyond that, an absolute must watch.

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RATING: 89/100

RELEASE DATE: December 4th, 2011

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Peaky Blinders
CREATOR: Steven Knight
CAST: Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson & Helen McCrory
BBC made something special, but despite that it looks terrific, and really takes you back to the Birmingham just after World War 1, it is also a bit clumsy and messy at times. Simply put, it does not quite live up to its promise of becoming the ‘Brummy’ version of the American Boardwalk Empire. That being said, I did really enjoy this classic more slow-paced British gangster series, and seeing that it only has six episodes in the first season of the mini-series, you can understand that it did not hit as hard as a Boardwalk Empire. Season 2 is up for release in 2014, and it would not surprise me if the show will really pick up from there. The story and the setting are incredible, so there is a lot there to be developed. Peaky Blinders is about a local Birmingham Irish gang run by the Shelby family (one of the brothers is played by the terrific Cillian Murphy) who were controlling the city with relative ease until a new Chief of police is installed, who is not afraid to fight back. The main attraction luring me in to watch this show was its creator Steven Knight, the writer of Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises (2007) about Russian gangsters.

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RATING: 88/100

RELEASE DATE: September 30th, 2014

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Doctor Who
CREATOR: Sydney Newman
CAST: Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh & Mandip Gill
The one and only sci fi cult hit! The Doctor is a Time Lord, who can travel beyond spacen and time and explores the whole wide universe, resulting in mind blowing adventures. Must see for sci fi fans.

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RATING: 88/100

RELEASE DATE: March 17th, 2006

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Downton Abbey
CREATOR: Julian Fellowes
CAST: Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith & Michelle Dockery
A portrayal of an aristocratic British family and their staff, beginning at the years before the first world war. BBC’s Downton Abbey is an enormous success – you’ve probably seen it, or at least heard of it. The decadence of the Crawley family is simply nice to look at, as are the shenanigans a level below (the staff) and the relationships between the family and their personnel. Yes, most characters are one-dimensional, and the fights and struggles are simplistic. No one really cares, apparently.

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RATING: 87/100

RELEASE DATE: January 9th, 2011

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This is England ’90
CREATOR: Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne
CAST: Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun & Stephen Graham
A miniseries derived from the film 'This is England' (2006). The show captures the rave culture and 1990 world football cup.

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RATING: 86/100

RELEASE DATE: September 13th, 2015

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The Night Manager
CREATOR: John le Carré
CAST: Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie & Olivia Colman
A night manager of a European hotel is asked to be an alias for intelligence operations.

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RATING: 82/100

RELEASE DATE: April 19th, 2016

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The Honourable Woman
CREATOR: Hugo Blick
CAST: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Andrew Buchan & Katherine Parkinson
This show clearly plays into today's hot topic of international espionage. It revolves around a woman who inherits her father’s arms business, and decides to transform it into a company that facilitates the laying of cable network between the West Bank and Israel. Grown into a role as promoter of reconciliation, she gets caught up in an international ‘maelstrom’.

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RATING: 81/100

RELEASE DATE: July 31st, 2014

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England is the one country that despite its small scale, has an answer to mindblowing stream of quality that comes from the U.S. Thanks to British television, we know Black Mirror (2011) and Downton Abbey (2010). Go England!