After years away from her isolated hometown, DI Cadi John returns to help her sisters care for their ailing father. Paired with the capable but overloaded DS Owen Vaughan, she soon begins investigating a young woman’s suspicious drowning. Acorn Media”s Hidden: Series 1 will be released (DVD Only) on November 13th.
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Acorn Media’s Triple BAFTA-Winning Comedy The Detectorists Coming to Home Video!
The triple BAFTA-winning British comedy The Detectorists follows two misfit friends and metal-detecting enthusiasts as they scour the English countryside for treasure. The Detectorists: Complete Collection (DVD only) will be released on November 13th by Acorn Media. Details follow.
Keeping Faith: Series 1 – Eight Hours of Slow Burn Panic!
Lawyer, wife and mother Faith (Eve Myles, Victoria, Broadchurch, Torchwood) fights to find the truth behind the sudden and unexpected disappearance of her husband.
DVD REVIEW: Pie in the Sky: Series 2 – A Mystery Doesn’t Have to be About Murder to Entertain!
The ten episodes that comprise Series [season] Two of Pie in the Sky originally aired in the winter of 1995. Such is the show’s writing, direction and acting that it remains as entertaining now as it was then. The series stars Richard Griffiths [best know as Harry Potter’s Uncle Vernon] as Henry Crabbe; a semi-retired […]
DVD REVIEW: A Mind to Kill – CSI’s Ancestor and Just as Intriguing!
Half-a-dozen years, or so, before CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered, a little Welsh series called A Mind to Kill presented us with Detective Inspector Noah Bain [Philip Madoc], a Welsh cop who headed a team that used a combination of cutting edge forensics technology and his own unique thought processes and instincts to solve murders.
TVonDVD: Callan – Set 2: British Cold War Spy Series is Chilling!
Beginning in 1967, Callan, starring Edward Woodward – best known for The Equalizer and the original The Wicker Man – portrayed David Callan on a spy series that was as dark as the Cold War. Callan was, as he puts it, “a sergeant who was promoted to private,” before he was forced out of the […]
TVonDVD: Life On Mars: Series 2 – Coma Boy, Time Traveller or Nutter?
When Manchester Detective Chief Inspector Sam Tyler [John Simm] woke up after being struck by a car in 2006, he found himself in the Manchester of 1973, newly assigned to that year’s version of his old station – and bumped down in rank to Detective Inspector. Worse, in the old school world of 1973, his […]
TVonDVD – Murdoch Mysteries: Season One – British Cozy Meets Forensics in Canada!
Based on a series of novels by Maureen Jennings, the Canadian Murdoch Mysteries is a delightful mix of several types of classic styles – the British cozy, Sherlock Holmes and forensics shows like CSI. Set in Victorian era Toronto, the series mixes historical fact with dramatic – and occasionally, whimsical – fiction. The series, which […]
DVD REVIEW: Trial & Retribution, Set 3 – Linda La Plante’s Other Great Series!
It comes to me as no surprise that Linda La Plante’s Trail & retribution is a quality series. After all, this is the woman who created Prime Suspect. This collection of six episodes of Trail & Retribution feature David Haymer as Detective Chief Superintendent Mike Walker, Victoria Smurfit as Detective Inspector Roisin Conner, and Dorian […]
DVD REVIEW: Murphy’s Law: Series 1 – An Undercover Cop of a Different Kind!
With all the attention being given to police and military undercover series [NCIS: Los Angeles and Dark blue among them], it’s refreshing to see the British series Murphy’s Law getting a DVD release in North America. It’s plain from the opening moments of the first series’ [season’s] first ep, Murphy’s Law, that transplanted Irish cop […]
DVD REVIEW: Traffik: Remastered 20th Anniversary Edition – Masterful Mini-Series is as Relevant as Ever!
When the British mini-series Traffik first aired, it was a revelation. It shook governments and individuals alike with its depiction of how simple it was to manufacture heroin – and how all-pervasive the drug was becoming. It was so well done that it also won an International Emmy and three BAFTA Awards. Eleven years later, […]