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- The English. The English is one of the most critically acclaimed British TV shows of 2022, and arguably the best. It is a western TV series written and directed by Hugo Blick.
- The Essex Serpent. The Essex Serpent was not just one of the best shows that British television had to offer, but one of the best miniseries of 2022. It is based on the award-winning gothic fiction novel of the same name by Sarah Perry.
- His Dark Materials. His Dark Materials is an epic fantasy adventure television series based on the novel trilogy of the same name written by Philip Pullman.
- Everything I Know About Love. Everything I Know About Love is a seven-part TV adaptation of the memoir by British author and journalist Dolly Alderton.
From Daisy Edgar-Jones' Under The Banner Of Heaven to The Crown and Roar, these are the 2022 TV shows you don't want to miss.
The 25 best Netflix original series to stream in the UK. From ‘Squid Game’ to ‘Stranger Things’, these are the best Netflix original series. Tuesday 30 August 2022. Written by Andy Kryza.
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- Hotel Portofino
- Inside Man
- Karen Pirie
- Life After Life
- Litvinenko
- Magpie Murders
Six-part period drama Hotel Portofino, which follows the travails of a British family who open a hotel on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s, landed on streamer BritBox back in January 2022. Natascha McElhone, Anna Chancellor, Pasquale Esposito and Mark Umbers starred in this story about money, class, politics and family reputation. The series will a...
The latest BBC One drama from former Doctor Whoand Sherlockshowrunner Steven Moffat was four-part crime thriller Inside Man. The twisting story is about a death row inmate in the US and a woman who’s trapped in a cellar under an English vicarage, whose lives interlink “in the most unexpected way”. The cast was excellent and included plenty of Moffa...
A new detective brought a breath of fresh air to ITV in the form of Karen Pirie, the creation of novelist Val McDermid who’s also the literary source of ITV’s popular Wire in the Bloodforensic pathology series. The new crime drama comes adapted from the first in McDermid’s five-book series The Distant Echo by Harlots and Save Me Too’s Emer Kenny. I...
Kate Atkinson’s 2013 novel Life After Life is a masterpiece of imaginative fiction, so it’s no surprise that BBC One snapped up a TV adaptation. It’s the story of Ursula, a woman with the extraordinary power to keep being continually reborn into new and alternative versions of her life after she dies. Seemingly insignificant changes to people and c...
Becoming known as ‘the man who solved his own murder’, in 2006 former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko spent the 22 days it took him to die from polonium poisoning helping the Metropolitan Police with their investigation. After his Emmy Award-winning performance as serial killer Dennis Nilsen in Des, David Tennant is going from killer to victim as ...
One of a slate of original drama commissions for UK streamer BritBox, Anthony Horowitz adapted for screen his own murder mystery novel Magpie Murders, the first of the writer’s Susan Ryeland series. Lesley Manville plays literary editor Ryeland (Manville), with Spall playing her client’s fictional 1950s detective Atticus Pünd. It was a dream cast f...
- Heartstopper. From beloved webcomic to graphic novel to Netflix series, Heartstopper was a truly sweet teen romance that stole our hearts this year. English writer and illustrator Alice Oseman extracted the characters of her Tapas/Webtoon/Tumblr hit 2016 webcomic and found real-life ambassadors for them — namely Charlie Spring (Joe Locke) and Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) — in the screen adaptation directed by Euros Lyn.
- Top Boy (Season 4) Ronan Bennett's Top Boy amped it right up for a brutal, powerful, excellent fourth season (Season 2 of the Netflix reboot). London drug dealers Dushane (Ashley Walters) and Sully (Kane Robinson) returned for a huge new chapter alongside rival Jamie (Micheal Ward), fresh out of prison and back with his Summerhouse gang.
- Bridgerton (Season 2) Bridgeton's opening season was so popular that the follow-up was always going to have big shoes to fill. Luckily Shonda Rhimes and Chris Van Dusen's period romance performs once again, this time following Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) as he navigates a complex love triangle with sisters Kate (Simone Ashley) and Edwina Sharma (Charithra Chandran).
- His Dark Materials (Season 3) The BBC's underrated, ambitious adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels has been an emotional ride, and the third season brought the series to a heartbreaking conclusion.
Jan 3, 2022 · From Peaky Blinders to Derry Girls to Gangs of London, Happy Valley and His Dark Materials and more, here are the British TV shows we're excited to see return in 2022.
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