A newspaper’s food columnist solves local murders in this breezy South African mystery series based on the Tannie Maria mystery novels by Sally Andrew. Set in Karoo, a stunning tourist destination, it unfolds with a blend of comedy and romance as it weaves in deeper themes including racial tension and domestic violence. Streaming on Acorn.
It may seem like a docuseries strictly for Boston basketball fans, but Celtics City captures the cultural and historical significance of the NBA by focusing on one of its most storied teams. Bill Simmons and a team from ESPN’s 30 for 30 productions weave together different eras and their social backdrops, including the role that
For the best access on the Oscars red carpet, ABC News Live has paired with OntheRedCarpet.com to capture all the arrivals, close ups, and back stories that we don’t get during the ceremony. News anchors Linsey Davis and Whit Johnson tag-team with George Pennacchio, who’s been covering entertainment for LA’s ABC7 for nearly 30 years.
Bumped up an hour this year to 7p ET/4p PT on ABC, this year’s big event will also be streamed live on Hulu for the first time. Conan O’Brien is hosting (also a first), and check out the wattage of all the star power among the presenters and performers — and your chance to win
After building an audience of 2 million+ YouTube followers, Mormon mother of six Ruby Franke ended up arrested for child abuse. Her estranged husband and two oldest kids tell their side of the story along with unseen YouTube footage and the POVs of friends and neighbors in this jaw-dropper — a revealing three-part documentary.
Kate Hudson stars as the unlikely new president of an LA Lakers-inspired basketball franchise who has to prove herself in the spotlight after her brother resigns in scandal in this Mindy Kaling-created comedy (which counts real-life Lakers execs Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis as producers). A breezy, escapist binge watch that counts Max Greenfield, Brenda
After their children were born with deformities, three British mothers from a small town in England take on the goliaths in this true story-inspired drama starring Jodie Whittaker, Brendan Coyle, Rory Kinnear, and others. The suspenseful four-part series feels like an urgent must-watch for the moment. “The result here is unexpectedly uplifting. Toxic Town’s winning,
Nominated for an Academy Award, the National Geographic documentary is an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada, which provoked a reckoning at the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. From the New York Time‘s Alissa Wilkinson: “…it’s immersive and incredibly beautiful, shot like poetry and scored by Mali Obomsawin. The result
A pair of British community police officers go undercover to infiltrate a police gang in this fresh BBC comedy that has some fun with all the murder, corruption, and systemic racism that underscores their new jobs. The comedy is broad but consistently entertains, and American audiences will find it all brand new.
Putting the civil rights movement into today’s context, HBO’s new six-part anthology docuseries anthology is an essential watch that follows in the footsteps of the powerful Eyes on the Prize series that first aired on PBS in 1987 and 1990, fundamentally shifting our collective understanding of civil rights through the stories of ordinary people who