PBS MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Creator and writer Anthony Horowitz on new mystery mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/15/2024
MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS key art | ©2024 PBS/ Eleventh Hour Films

The six-episode MOONFLOWER MURDERS premieres on PBS MASTERPIECE on Sunday, September 15. This is a sequel to 2022’s series MAGPIE MURDERS. Both are adapted from bestselling mystery novels of the same titles by Anthony Horowitz, who also wrote all the teleplays, and serves as one of the series’ executive producers. In MAGPIE MURDERS, present-day London book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville, Oscar-nominated for her performance in 2017’s PHANTOM THREAD) searched the unpublished manuscript of one of her authors, Alan Conway (Conleth Hill of GAME OF THRONES), for clues to his murder. At the same time, we saw the story of Alan’s […]Read On »


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THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON: Creator Sara Collins on new Britbox miniseries – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/10/2023
THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON Key Art | ©2023 Britbox

THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON is a four-part British miniseries, which premieres on BritBox on March 8. Based on the novel by Sara Collins, THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON stars Karla-Simone Spence as Frannie, a young, educated Black Jamaican woman who is brought to England in the 1820s. Technically free, Frannie’s gender and race both make it next to impossible for her to refuse employment as a maid in the London household of wealthy George Benham (Stephen Campbell Moore). Then Frannie falls in love with George’s wife Marguerite (Sophie Cookson). Marguerite reciprocates Frannie’s feelings, though their romance is necessarily cloaked […]Read On »


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CROSSFIRE: Creator Louise Doughty gives the scoop on the new Britbox mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/06/2023
CROSSFIRE Key Art | ©2022 Britbox

In creator Louise Doughty’s CROSSFIRE miniseries, originally on BBC1 in the U.K. and now streaming in its three-part entirety on Britbox in North America, we know at the start that something terrible has happened, but at first, not what it is, or who has been lost. Keeley Hawes stars as Jo, a resident of Leicester, England. Jo currently advises on security issues at a department store. She is married to Jason (Lee Inglesby); they have two little boys together, plus Jo’s daughter Amara (Shalisha James-Davis) from a previous marriage. Jo invites her best friends Miriam (Josette Simon) and Abhi (Anneika […]Read On »


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KAREN PIRIE: Series creator and actor Emer Kenny on new Britbox murder mystery – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/24/2022
Emer Kenny in FATHER BROWN | ©2022 BBC Studios/Gary Moyes

Karen Pirie is a young police detective who is the protagonist in a series of mysteries by bestselling Scottish novelist Val McDermid. Emer Kenny has now adapted the books for British television in the ITV series KAREN PIRIE, starring Lauren Lyle in the title role. The first season of KAREN PIRIE is now available in the U.S. as three ninety-minute episodes on Britbox. The story moves back and forth between 1996, when a young Scottish barmaid is murdered, and 2021, when Karen is put in charge of a cold case squad investigating the still-unsolved crime. The situation becomes more difficult […]Read On »


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SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES: Actress Lorna Watson and executive producer Will Trotter on new Britbox series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/09/2022
Lorna Watson in SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES - Season 1 | ©2022 Britbox

SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES makes its Britbox debut on February 8. The ten-episode first season is a spinoff of the ongoing FATHER BROWN, now in its tenth season. While FATHER BROWN is based on the works of novelist G.K. Chesterton, SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES follows the nun played by Lorna Watson, who originally appeared in a 2013 FATHER BROWN episode written by Jude Tindall. In SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES, we’re in the small English village of Great Slaughter in 1962. Sister Boniface now assists local police inspector Sam Gillespie (played by Max Brown). They are joined by frequently flummoxed newcomer Detective Sergeant Felix […]Read On »


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LINE OF DUTY: Creator Jed Mercurio on Season 6 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/16/2021
Kelly Macdonald is Joanne Davidson in LINE OF DUTY - Season 6 | ©2021 World Productions/Steffan Hill

LINE OF DUTY is now streaming its sixth season on Britbox in the U.S., with new episodes dropping on Tuesdays. (All five previous seasons are available.) When the Season Six finale of LINE OF DUTY ran on the BBC earlier this year, it was the highest-rated show in the U.K. of the twenty-first century. Viewers of LINE OF DUTY will easily understand the appeal. The twist-filled police drama, which aired its first season in 2012, deals with an internal affairs division, called “anti-corruption” or “AC” in England. LINE OF DUTY follows one such department in the English Midlands, AC-12, tasked […]Read On »


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GRACE: Novelist and executive producer Peter James on the transition from book to small screen – Exclusive Interview – Part 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/27/2021
John Simm and Richie Campbell in GRACE | ©2021 Britbox

In Part 2 of our exclusive phone interview with novelist/executive producer Peter James, he talks more about GRACE. The new British series, starring John Simm as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, is streaming its two-telefilm first season on Britbox in the U.S. ASSIGNMENT X: In DEAD SIMPLE, Roy Grace is assigned to the Cold Case unit, but winds up working on a current case. Is he working on cold cases or current cases throughout the bulk of the series? PETER JAMES: Almost entirely, he’s working on current cases. There are a couple of books where his cold case knowledge comes in […]Read On »


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GRACE: Novelist and executive producer Peter James on Britbox detective series – Exclusive Interview – Part 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/26/2021
GRACE Key Art | ©2021 Britbox

GRACE, starring John Simm in the title role, is a new U.K. detective series. Its first season, consisting of two telefilms, DEAD SIMPLE and LOOKING GOOD DEAD, is now available in North America on Britbox. GRACE is based on the award-winning, long-running series of novels (seventeen and counting) by prolific author/producer Peter James, who serves as an executive producer on the TV series. The novels and TV edition revolve around Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of Brighton, England. Grace works on solving both new crimes and cold cases while continuing to investigate the sudden, unexplained disappearance of his wife years earlier. […]Read On »


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KATE & KOJI: Actor Jimmy Akingbola on new Britbox comedy and TED LASSO – Exclusive i\Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/14/2021
Jimmy Akingbola in KATE & KOJI | ©2021 Britbox

KATE & KOJI has its North American premiere on the streaming service Britbox on Tuesday, April 13. The half-hour comedy ran its first season last year on ITV, and has already been renewed for a second season. Jimmy Akingbola stars as Koji, opposite Brenda Blethyn’s Kate. Kate is the stuck-in-her-ways proprietor of a small English seaside café. Koji is a doctor from West Africa who is not allowed to practice medicine – or do any other paying work – while he waits for his asylum application to be processed. The two are unlikely comrades, but when Kate discovers an upside […]Read On »


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HONOUR: Executive producer Liza Marshall on new British film – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/25/2021
Keeley Hawes in HONOUR| ©2021 Britbox

HONOUR is a fact-based drama that follows the investigation, led by British police detective Caroline Goode (played by Keeley Hawes, also one of the executive producers) into the 2006 disappearance of Banaz Mahmod (Buket Kamur). Goode’s inquiry leads her to learn about the disturbing practice of “honor killings,” which consist of men murdering women, often family members, for perceived infractions against patriarchal culture. HONOUR executive producer Liza Marshall has an extensive career in both narrative and documentary films and television. Her previous work includes the RED RIDING films, WELCOME TO THE PUNCH, SPRINGSTEEN AND I, TABOO, and RIVIERA. Speaking by […]Read On »


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