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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.

supports HTML5 videoIf you’re an Ice Age fan, this video of Scrat finally getting his acorn will melt your heart.The last-ever short from Blue Sky Studios was released this week before the animation studio closes down.The much-loved adorable squirrel was a fan favourite in the original franchise and has even appeared in his own shorts.However, one thing he always had trouble with was safely hiding an acorn.The unlucky sabre-toothed creature has always been dedicated to capturing a nut, but his pursuit has seemed never-ending at times as something always goes wrong.But now, in the final Blue Sky animation, he succeeds in what is truly a wholesome piece of cinema.Scrat manages to find the nut, clutches it close to his chest, and holds it high above his head, on guard for someone to steal it or for something catastrophic to happen as it normally does.However, nothingcatastrophic does happen, so he is finally able to eat his precious nut in peace, after which he skips off to conquer his next challenge.Understandably, fans have been emotional wrecks following the release of the animation by Blue Sky, which has been viewed over eight million times.Tweeting the clip, they wrote: ‘In the final days of @BlueSkyStudios, a small team of artists came together to do one final shot. This shot is a farewell, a send-off on our own terms —— Blue Sky Studios.’‘Not me crying over Scrat finally eating his acorn,’ one emosh fan responded.‘This is gold.

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.

UFO exactly 56 years ago.The parade, organised by the Volunteer Fire Department, attracts a large number of UFO enthusiasts for a weekend of festivities.But paranormal researchers and experts on UFOs and Bigfoot who are honoured speakers take their subjects very seriously..Kecksburg, also known as “Pennsylvania’s Roswell,” marks the 56th anniversary of what has become known as “The Kecksburg Incident."On December 9, 1965, a fireball flashed across the sky above northeastern North America and was spotted from as far away as Indiana, New York, Virginia, and Ontario.

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 the pair of women, gained loyal followers because of the lesbian/queer undertones that weren't as commonly depicted on TV at the time.  Fast forward 20 years and the real-life friends have returned in the light-hearted mystery series, produced by

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. spy who becomes a sleuth in Italy in “Signora Volpe,” a detective drama commissioned by AMC Networks’ Acorn TV that will start shooting in Italy in May.The show comprising three 90-minute installments is being produced by ITV Studios-backed production company Route 24, with Italy’s ITV-owned Cattleya providing the Italian production service. “Signora Volpe” is created and written by Rachel Cuperman and Sally Griffiths (“Midsomer Murders) who are also its executive producers.

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. It’s targeted to debut in 2022 across all Acorn markets, which include the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Spain and Portugal.Created and co-written by David Logan (“Lost Christmas”), “Harry Wild” is produced and distributed by Dynamic Television.Seymour, who had a long run on CBS in “Dr.

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 a Scandinavian edge.Enter Norwegian filmmaker Øystein Karlsen, whose writing/directing credits include hit dark comedy dramas “DAG,” “Exit” and “Lilyhammer,” who was duly drafted in to adapt Julie Wassmer’s series of seaside mystery novels.

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. premiere rights to the new season of “Midsomer Murders” from distributor All3media International.Acorn TV will premiere the first two feature-length episodes of season 22 from April 19 and will bow the remaining four episodes this fall after production concludes.In “Midsomer Murders,” detective chief Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) and detective sergeant Winter (Nick Hendrix) investigate homicides, blackmail, greed and betrayal in England’s most murderous county.

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.