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EXCLUSIVE: Signora Volpe is heading back to Italy.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ Acorn TV and Channel 5 are serving up a third season of The Madame Blanc Mysteries.

EXCLUSIVE: Acorn TV and ZDF mystery drama series The Chelsea Detective has a new co-lead for its second season.

EXCLUSIVE: Line of Duty star Craig Parkinson, Gurjeet Singh (Ackley Bridge) and Naana Agyei-Ampadu, Death in Paradise are joining Acorn TV’s four-part mystery drama Mrs Sidhu Investigates. Meera Syal is fronting the four-part series as a crime-solving Indian chef, having voiced the eponymous sleuth in a popular BBC Radio 4 series of the same name.

The AMC Networks family has renewed a pair of shows.

More of P.D. James’ murder mysteries will be turned into TV dramas after AMC Networks’ Acorn TV and Paramount Global-owned broadcaster Channel 5 handed drama series Dalgliesh a two-season renewal.

K.J. Yossman British detective drama “Dalgliesh” is set to return after getting a second season order from AMC Networks’ Acorn TV and Channel 5.The second season, which will consist of six episodes, will be based on three more P.D.

Sadly, for many people in the US, you probably recognize actor Stephen Graham most from his recent performance in the 2021 hit, “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” as a San Francisco police detective hot on the trail of Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy). But for decades now, Graham has consistently proven to be one of the most interesting actors working today, and for his latest film, “Help,” he stars opposite another big name, Jodie Comer.

EXCLUSIVE: Acorn TV has commissioned a second series of UK crime drama Whitstable Pearl and the show has been sold by distributor Cineflix Rights to a wealth of international buyers.

Manori Ravindran International EditorChannel 4 drama “Help,” starring Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham, has been picked up by Acorn TV for the U.S., Variety can reveal.The critically acclaimed single drama, written by “His Dark Materials” and “Enola Holmes” writer Jack Thorne, will premiere on the service in the U.S. and Canada in early 2022.“Help” is a searing commentary on the U.K.

'Xena: Warrior Princess" co-stars Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor are reuniting on Acorn TV’s "My Life is Murder." The two actresses, who were previously on the fan-favorite '90s fantasy series for six seasons together, have not appeared opposite each other since "Xena"s series finale in 2001.  Lawless, 53, played Xena, a skilled warrior, while O'Connor, 50, played her right-hand woman and best friend Gabrielle.Together they battled monsters and evil across the fictional world.  The show, and

Cocktail star Bryan Brown and War & Peace’s Greta Scacchi are to play two strangers trekking on the road in the Australian outback in a new Australian drama series.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentBritish actor Emilia Fox (“Silent Witness”) is set to star as a disillusioned U.K.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Jane Seymour has signed on to star in and co-executive produce a new Irish mystery thriller for Acorn TV, AMC Networks’ streamer that focuses on British content.“Harry Wild” is set to go into production next month in Dublin.

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress Jane Seymour is to star in and executive produce the latest original series for AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV, taking the title role in Irish mystery thriller Harry Wild.

Ann-Marie Corvin Made by “Marcella” producerBuccaneer Media as an original for AMC’s BritBox rival Acorn TV, “Whitstable Pearl” has all the ingredients of a travel-friendly crime series with a female lead in a picturesque English town.And while the six part, 45-minute series slots in neatly with the streamer’s other small town crime canon, including Cotswold’s based “Agatha Raisin” and “Queens of Mystery,” Buccaneer execs Tony Wood and Anna Burns were keen to give the seaside town of Whitstable

Acorn/Sundance Acquire ‘The Drowning’ AMC Networks streamers Acorn TV and Sundance Now have swooped for the U.S. and Canadian rights to four-part identity thriller The Drowning.

Naman Ramachandran AMC Networks’ British programming-focused streamer Acorn TV has acquired exclusive SVOD and U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has found its latest British crime series in the shape of Adrian Scarborough starrer The Chelsea Detective, which is created and co-written by Peter Fincham, the man who originally greenlit Downton Abbey for ITV.

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Acorn TV greenlights “Queens of Mystery” season two; NATPE Budapest confirms in-person event in August; Lionsgate Play unveils “U-Special” — its second original series in India; ITV commissions relationship drama “You & Me”; Dave Johns joins the cast of “I’m Still Ethan”; and Mexico’s Dopamine creates a new in-house entertainment team.AMC Networks-owned streaming platform Acorn TV has renewed its Primetime Emmy-nominated British crime series “Queens of

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has renewed its darkly comic British crime series Queens Of Mystery for a second season, with production already underway in Kent, south-east England.

Naman Ramachandran U.K.-based distributor DCD Rights has acquired international distribution rights, excluding Australia, for the third and final season of drama series “Jack Irish.”DCD has already pre-sold North America to AMC Networks’ streamer Acorn TV.The third season, titled “Jack Irish: Hell Bent,” sees Guy Pearce (“A Christmas Carol,” “Mildred Pierce”) return in the eponymous role of the criminal lawyer turned troubleshooter, and the cast also includes Marta Dusseldorp (“Stateless”),

Australian Thriller Gets North America Deal

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has teamed with New Zealand broadcaster TVNZ to commission its latest original — a romantic comedy set on a Kiwi vineyard, led by The Crown star Charles Edwards and Wanted actress Rebecca Gibney.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Howard Charles, star of Amazon’s The Widow and CBS’s The Red Line, has been cast as the co-lead in Acorn TV’s British-made crime drama Whitstable Pearl.Charles, who will next feature in Netflix’s Shadow And Bone, will star alongside After Life actress Kerry Godliman in the six-part Buccaneer Media adaptation of Julie Wassmer’s The Whitstable Pearl Mystery novels.The series follows big-hearted restaurant owner Pearl Nolan (Godliman) who sets up a

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: AMC streamer Acorn TV and ViacomCBS’s UK network Channel 5 are to further cement their forays into original drama by co-producing an adaptation of P.D.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Acorn TV’s push into originals is continuing at pace after the AMC Networks streamer commissioned Buccaneer Media, the producer behind ITV/Netflix’s Anna Friel hit Marcella, to adapt Julie Wassmer’s The Whitstable Pearl Mystery novels into a series.Deadline hears that Buccaneer has been developing a six-part series for a number of months and has signed up Kerry Godliman, the star of Ricky Gervais’ Netflix comedy After Life, to headline the

Naman Ramachandran AMC Networks’ streaming service Acorn TV has acquired exclusive U.S.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: AMC streamer Acorn TV has unveiled its second original in the space of a week, boarding the crime drama Cannes Confidential.Penned by Midsomer Murders and Van der Valk writer Chris Murray, the eight-part series is a romantic procedural that blends comedy, mystery and crime detection with a heart-warming love story — all against the backdrop of the Cote d’Azur.Deadline first revealed that Murray — who has also written for Acorn series Agatha Raisin —

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has commissioned a second season of Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries after licensing the first season of the Australian crime drama.The show, originally brought to Acorn subscribers last year, is a spin-off of Australian broadcaster ABC’s series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.

He added: “As with other services, this service will only be brought online when there is a confidence it can be delivered with a high degree of safety.“If there is any change to the identified risk which means it cannot be delivered safely, such as a further wave of coronavirus, then any service may once again be suspended in response to those dangers.”

more streaming services than anyone can handle right now, especially now that HBO Max and Peacock are officially in the mix, but sometimes having a lot of choices isn't a bad thing, especially when it means you can subscribe to a niche streaming service featuring nothing but your beloved British and international programming.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has landed the North American rights to BBC One’s estranged family comedy The Other One, which stars BAFTA-winning Avenue 5 actress Rebecca Front.Acorn TV, which has also acquired The Other One in the Netherlands, will premiere the Tiger Aspect show on August 10 in the U.S.

By Jake Kanter

Acorn TV, AMC Networks' streaming service focusing on British dramas and comedies, has set out plans for its U.K. launch.

Acorn TV, AMC Network’s British programming focused streamer, is to launch in the U.K. at the end of the month.