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If you enjoyed Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders, you’re in luck - because PBS has just announced a premiere date for the third and final part of the trilogy, Marble Hall Murders.
The season will air beginning September 6th on Masterpiece, and there will be six episodes in total. For more details + first look images, you can read more HERE. We’ve also included a lengthy and interesting video interview with writer/creator Anthony Horowitz that he did for Barnes & Noble around the release of the book.
What we’re…
Watching: Into the Blue - I loved English novelist Robert Goddard’s novel The Fine Art of Invisible Detection, so when I realized this film was based on another one of his novels and it stars John Thaw… I was sold. Thaw plays a man living in Greece on a sort of permanent holiday/exile. When a guest at the villa disappears, however, he’s the top suspect. He has to use what little information he has to figure out what really happened. It’s an older film, made just a few years before Thaw died.
Reading: The Mudlarker’s Club by Jane Riley - If you’re a fan of Detectorists, you may also be familiar with the practice of mudlarking - which is a bit like metal detecting, but it’s done in and along bodies of water, especially the Thames. It used to be done out of necessity and poverty, but these days it’s often just a fun pastime - frequently involving magnets or metal detectors. Anyway, this book is about a small community of mudlarkers who bond over their shared adventures - and at time of writing, it remains just 99 cents.
We’ve just opened up pre-orders for the upcoming 11th edition of the British TV Streaming Guide, and we expect the first print run to arrive here in early May (with shipment the next business day). Pre-ordering guarantees your copy from the first batch.
~230 pages cover 25 US-based streaming services, telling you which British TV shows are available on each and what they're about. No need to give yourself carpal tunnel clicking through endless on-screen menus.
An alphabetised index for when you know the name of the show, but not the streaming service.
Size 12 font! It adds a bit to our printing/shipping costs and makes the book longer, but let's be real - most of our readers are 50+, and nobody wants to be squinting at prescription bottle-sized print.
Each edition has bonus features in back. This time, we look at under-the-radar and interesting early appearances by well-known British actors.
A "Renewals & Cancellations" section that offers status updates about which shows are returning (or not).
UNDER-RATED BRITISH TV & FILM RECOMMENDATIONS
Most of us have times where life gets quiet for a while and new release schedules just aren’t keeping up - so if you find yourself in need of something a little different, here are a few more recommendations outside the usual:
Designing the Hebrides - This fun lifestyle series follows a man running an interior design business in the Hebrides Islands of Scotland. Also available on Tubi.
White Dragon - John Simm stars as Professor Jonah Mulray, a man whose wife is killed in a car crash in Hong Kong. Despite a fear of flying that has kept him from going there in the past, he goes to identify her body - and finds himself drawn into a conspiracy that suggests there’s more to the death.
The More You Ignore Me - Mark Addy, Jo Brand, Sheridan Smith, Sheila Hancock, and Sally Phillips star in this 1980s period drama about a music-obsessed teenager coming of age in rural England. Also available to stream on Tubi, Pluto TV, and Plex.
Moving On - Created by Jimmy McGovern, this anthology series features individual dramas about people at turning points in their lives. Not every one is great, but with 65 in total, there’s a little something for everyone - and some of the UK’s finest acting talent has appeared over the 12 season run. Also available on Tubi, Peacock, and Plex.
Coroner - This one’s Canadian, but if you enjoy forensics-focused crime dramas with female leads, it’s well worth checking out. Not to be confused with the equally delightful British series The Coroner. Also available on Hulu and Peacock.
Saxondale - This rare British comedy is one I’ve never seen before on US streaming services - but if you’re a fan of Steve Coogan, Ruth Jones, or Ben Miller, it’s well worth the reasonable fee to buy it (season 1 is listed as $1.99 per episode or $5.99 total at time of writing, and season 2 is slightly less). The series follows a former roadie who now runs a pest control business.
The Road Dance - At the dawn of WWI, a young woman in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides sees her life changed forever when she’s attacked as the local men prepare to go off to battle. Also on Tubi, Plex, and Fawesome.
Living - Bill Nighy stars as a bored London bureaucrat during the 1950s - but his life changes when he gets an unfortunate diagnoses that prompts him to take drastic, out of character actions.
Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport - This SHOULD be a lot more boring than it actually is - but it’s actually weirdly fascinating, and great to have on as “background” when you’re doing something else.
Susan Calman’s Grand Day Out - Susan Calman is a Scottish lawyer-turned-comedian, and she’s easily one of the most entertaining travel show guides in recent years. We’ve mentioned this one before, but Amazon recently added season 5, so if it’s one you enjoyed in the past, you can now access episodes set in the Channel Islands, Nottinghamshire, West Yorkshire, the Irish coast, and more (they’re charging for the episodes, but if they’re significantly cheaper if you don’t mind standard definition instead of HD).
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