British TV – Stream On Demand

What to stream: ‘Chloe’ on Prime Video, ‘Loot’ on Apple TV+, ‘The Bear’ on Hulu, ‘Man Vs. Bee’ on Netflix

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Plus ‘The Man From Toronto’ and ‘Sing 2’ and more ‘Umbrella Academy’ on Netflix, a new ‘Beavis and Butthead’ movie on Paramount+, ‘Wildwood’ on Hulu and more.

Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle star in the 1995 mini-series

The definitive ‘Pride and Prejudice’ on HBO Max, Hulu and BritBox

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This 1995 miniseries starring Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth and Colin Firth as Mr. D’Arcy is still considered by most Austen fans as the definitive screen adaptation.

‘Danger Man’ – Patrick McGoohan is ‘Secret Agent’ John Drake, free on IMDbTV and The Roku Channel

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Before Patrick McGoohan was ‘The Prisoner,’ he was John Drake, the loyal but maverick agent of Britain’s top secret M9 security force, in this Cold War spy drama.

What to stream: ‘And Just Like That…’ and ‘Landscapers’ on HBO Max, ‘The First Wave’ on Hulu, the end of ‘The Expanse’ on Prime Video

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Plus ‘Welcome to Earth’ on Disney+, ‘The Unforgiveable’ and animated ‘Back to the Outback’ on Netflix, ‘Bloods’ on Hulu, ‘The Forever Prisoner’ on HBO Max, ‘Dear Heaven Hansen’ on VOD, and more Christmas programs.

The complete ‘Downton Abbey’ on Prime Video, Peacock, and BritBox

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Lord Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, invites you into the splendor, the ritual, and the melodrama of the British period piece set in Edwardian England.

Helen Mirren is Jane Tennison in 'Prime Suspect'

The Complete ‘Prime Suspect’ with Helen Mirren on BritBox

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Helen Mirren got the role of a lifetime playing DCI Jane Tennison, a tough, tenacious, at times brittle woman in a brutally chauvinist British police culture in a series of smart mysteries.

Ian Richardson stars in the original BBC mini-series

The original British ‘House of Cards Trilogy’ on Amazon Prime, BritBox, and Hoopla

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Ian Richardson stars in the original BBC miniseries about the most seductively ruthless politician you’ve ever had the pleasure to watch claw his way to the top (over the corpses of his rivals).

Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance as Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell in the BBC miniseries 'Wolf Hall'

‘Wolf Hall’ – power and privilege on Hoopla

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Mark Rylance stars in the advisor to King Henry VIII in this British miniseries adapted from the historical novels of Hilary Mantel.

Ben Whishaw meets a ‘London Spy’

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There is indeed a spy in London Spy (2015) but this BBC mini-series is not a traditional espionage drama. Danny (Ben Whishaw) is a club-culture young gay man with a dreary day job who meets the closeted, emotionally suppressed Alex (Edward Holcroft), a genius with numbers but awkward with people. He’s an investment banker who […]

Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston lead the cast of the mini-series 'The Night Manager'

‘The Night Manager’ – John le Carré on Amazon Prime

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The Night Manager (2016), a six-part mini-series from the BBC that played on AMC in the U.S., is a riveting adaptation of the John le Carré’s 1993 novel of illegal arms sales and government complicity and updated from the nineties drug wars on Latin America to the contemporary Middle East of the Arab Spring. Tom […]