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Dec 16, 2021 · The series is known for its top drawer cameos and actors lined up for the British version include “Harry Potter’s” Helena Bonham Carter, “Bridgerton” star Phoebe Dynevor, David Oyelowo ...
- Slow Horses
- The Ipcress File
- Magpie Murders
- The Essex Serpent
- Sister Boniface Mysteries
- Sherwood
- Signora Volpe
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- This Is Going to Hurt
- Chloe
While this list is in no particular order, if we had to pick a “best new British TV show of 2022”, Slow Horses would certainly be a contender. Based on British author Mick Herron's Slough House series, this tale of spies who've screwed up has already been renewed for seasons 2, 3, and4. Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the head of Slough House. D...
This cold war spy thriller is loosely based on both the 1962 Len Deighton novel and the 1965 film, adopting elements of each. In it, an ex-smuggler turned spy finds himself in the middle of an undercover mission involving kidnapped and brainwashed scientists. Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders), Tom Hollander (Rev), and Lucy Boynton (Miss Potter) star. You c...
This mystery-within-a-mystery is based on Foyle's Warcreator Anthony Horowitz's novel by the same name. It follows a book editor called Susan Ryeland who's trying to get the final chapters of her deceased author's last DI Attitcus Pünd mystery novel. As she's trying to get answers about the book, she'll find herself thrust into another mystery – th...
Based on Sarah Perry's novel of the same name, this gothic miniseries follows a widow in Victorian London (played by Claire Danes) as she moves to Essex to investigate stories of a serpent in a small village. A young girl's corpse has been found, chewed up. An elaborate system of netting is designed to capture the beast, but it's destroyed. In spit...
This Father Brownspin-off follows a Vespa-driving, crime-solving, Cotswold-dwelling nun – a character from an early season of the Cotswold-based series. Lorna Watson reprises her role as Sister Boniface. Slightly removed from the Father Browntimeline, this one's set in the 1960s. It's a time period when police forensics were still quite primitive, ...
David Morrissey (The Walking Dead) stars in this crime drama inspired by real life murders in Nottinghamshire, England back in 2004. Set in a small mining village, it begins with the murder of a former union activist, Gary Jackson. In time, the police begin to suspect there's a connection between the miner's strike and Jackson's interest in covert ...
Signora Volpe introduces us to Sylvia Fox (Emilia Fox, Silent Witness), an attractive and intelligent 40-something woman who works at the MI6 headquarters in London. As she heads off to Italy to celebrate the wedding of her niece Alice, we see that she's disillusioned with her career and perhaps having a bit of a mid-life crisis. Arriving in Italy,...
Based on Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 novel of the same name, this romantic fantasy series was adapted and written by Steven Moffatt (Doctor Who). It follows the unconventional romance of Clare Abshire and Henry DeTamble, a man who suffers from a genetic disorder that causes him to sporadically time travel. As a young girl, Clare meets an older Henry ...
Based on former doctor Adam Kay's memoirs, this one focuses on the lives of junior doctors working in an NHS hospital's obstetrics and gynaecology ward. Though a bit gruesome and certainly not to everyone's taste, it's a realistic look at the effects the work has on the young doctors who dedicate their lives to helping others. Ben Whishaw stars as ...
This six-part psychological thriller follows Becky Green (Erin Doherty, The Crown), an unhappy young woman who becomes obsessed with the life and suicide of her estranged childhood friend Chloe. Because this is a psychological thriller, she doesn't get therapy or work on her own life so she can drop the unhealthy attachment. Instead, she creates a ...
Jan 3, 2023 · These are the new British TV shows we welcomed last year, and where to stream them. If police drama remains the bedrock of British TV commissions, with 2022 having welcomed crime series...
- 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.
Heartstopper: Created by Alice Oseman. With Joe Locke, Kit Connor, William Gao, Yasmin Finney. Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.
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Jan 12, 2023 · So without further ado, here are the top 15 British TV shows of 2022. 15 Heartstopper. Netflix. Nothing beats good TV like a romantic coming-of-age story. Heartstopper is a British LGBTQ+...
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Dec 29, 2022 · The Best British TV Shows of 2022. Looking for UK TV recommendations? We polled our writers for their most loved British TV shows of the year!
