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Writers Harry and Jack Williams swiftly return to the BBC with The Tourist series 2, in which Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald swap the Australian outback for the Irish countryside
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From Jodie Foster starring in True Detective: Night Country to Nicola Coughlan returning for Bridgerton, season 3, here are some of the best TV shows coming in 2024
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From The Morning Show, season 3, starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston to The Crown, season 6, with Imelda Staunton, here are the best autumn TV shows in 2023
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Jonah Hauer-King, Zofia Wichlacz and Lesley Manville return for World on Fire series 2, Peter Bowker's devastating WWII drama
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Playwright Cash Carraway debuts on the small screen with this new BBC/HBO series, starring Daisy May Cooper as a single mother and sex worker in London
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Following his excellent version of A Christmas Carol, Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) continues his streak of BBC Dickens adaptations with Great Expectations. Olivia Colman and Fionn Whitehead star
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Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper and Jack Lowden star in this thick and thrilling true-crime drama about the Brink's-Mat robbery in 1983
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James Nesbitt returns as the duplicitous detective Tom Brannick in Chris Brandon's Northern Ireland-set drama Bloodlands. Charlene McKenna also stars
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David Attenborough is back on the BBC with a new, updated documentary about the frozen lands of planet Earth
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The BBC's Imagine stable comes up close and personal with hip-hop choreographer Kate Prince, as she develops her hit show Message in a Bottle
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In BBC's new three-part adaptation of Dracula, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss reanimate culture's best-known vampire (Claes Bang) for a shocking, horrific, hilarious series
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Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight returns to BBC One with a gritty, three-part adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, starring Guy Pearce, Stephen Graham, and Andy Serkis
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It all comes crashing down for the Brummie gang as kingpin Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) faces the Great Depression and the rise of fascism
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Victor Hugo's classic tale comes to an end in the Les Miserables finale. Valjean (Dominic West) risks imprisonment to seek Marius (Josh O'Connor) and kill him
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In Les Miserables episode five, Marius (Josh O'Connor) and Cosette (Ellie Bamber) begin their annoying romance amid the violent June Rebellion in Paris
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The teenage Cosette (Ellie Bamber) is desperate to see the world for herself, but her guardian Jean Valjean (Dominic West) doesn't want her exposed to its pain
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In Les Miserables episode 3, Jean Valjean (Dominic West) attempts to answer for his previous crimes while fulfilling the wishes of the dying Fantine (Lily Collins)
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Luther series 5 has finally seen the light! DCI John Luther (Idris Elba) has a new partner (Wunmi Mosaku) and a new case centred around a mask-wearing, bus-sneaking serial killer
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Luther series 5 is back. We met with Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson to find out more about the surprises in store for series 5
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Dance takes centre stage on television with BBC One The Greatest Dancer, a new talent show where the public decide who's to be crowned top hoofer
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In the Doctor Who series 11 finale, The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) travels with her companions to the battlefield planet Ranskoor Av Kolos – where they meet a familiar face...
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A non-musical adaptation of the Victor Hugo's classic Les Miserables, starring Lily Collins and Olivia Coleman, comes to the BBC this Christmas. Here's everything we know
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In the penultimate episode of Doctor Who series 11, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker)4 and co. land in a Norwegian fjord near a deserted cottage – where two universes are colliding
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In episode 8 of Doctor Who, The Witchfinders, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and co. find themselves in 17th century Lanchashire during a violent spread of witch trials
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In episode 7 of Doctor Who, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) is sent a mysterious message from the galaxy's biggest retailer, Kerblam! The TARDIS team go and check it out
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In Episode 6 of Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker goes back in time and across the water to the Punjab in 1947. Religious riots are raging and alien demons are lurking...
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In episode five of Doctor Who, The Tsuranga Conundrum, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and friends wake up on a medic ship. But something dangerous and hungry is on board...
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In episode four of Doctor Who, Jodie Whittaker is up against some fierce and massive spiders crawling rampant in Sheffield
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Jenna Coleman delivers another heart-ripping performance in The Cry finale, which reaches an unsettling conclusion
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In episode 3 of Doctor Who, the TARDIS 'accidentally' lands Jodie Whittaker and team in Alabama, 1955 – a day before the Rosa Parks incident on the Montgomery bus
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Questions are answered, tensions are raised, and emotions are strong - episode 3 of The Cry is the best one yet
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Cinematic, intense and with a shuddering performance from Jenna Coleman, episode 2 of The Cry explores the dark realities of loss