Acorn TV: Last News

Xena and Gabrielle are together again in New Zealand — albeit in a modern-day setting. Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor, who played Xena and her loyal sidekick Gabrielle in the iconic series “Xena: Warrior Princess,” have reunited for the Season 2 finale of “My Life Is Murder,” Lawless’ whimsical series on Acorn TV.It’s the first time they’ve appeared together on-camera since “Xena” ended in 2001.

bicycle-riding DI Max Arnold (Adrian Scarborough).But being the newbie in a series now in its second season on Acorn TV wasn’t too difficult for Emme, a veteran of UK crimefighting procedurals including “Bloodlands” and “Dublin Murders” who said she “loves the genre” — but is also “a massive comedy fan.”“What I particularly love about anything I watch is … when you get to know who’re you’re watching on screen, even if it’s driven very much by action or comedy,” she said. “Getting to peel the layers off of people on screen and the stories behind them is what I’m drawn to regardless of [the genre].“That’s what I loved exploring with Layla and Max and the rest of the [‘Chelsea Detective’] team — who these people are inside aside from the serious crimes they solve.”The four-episode second season of “The Chelsea Detective” picks up, thematically, from Season 1, with the dyslexic, coffee-drinking Max Arnold — who lives on a houseboat on the Thames — solving murders in the fashionable, wealthy area of West London.

It wasn’t hard for James Purefoy to convince his fellow actor and pal, Dominic West, to join him in Portugal for “The Wine Show.”“I asked him if he could do it because we were having a scheduling conflict with [series regular] Matthew Goode,” Purefoy, 57, told The Post. “I left him a voice message: ‘OK, this could be the best job offer you ever had.

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