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Jun 7 2013 07:04 PM ET

'Luther' season 3 trailer: 'His good fortune ran out the day that I heard his name' -- VIDEO

Watching the trailer for Luther‘s newest series season, you’d never know that Idris Elba is having the biggest summer of his career, starring in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim. Indeed, he’s slipped right back into the skin of the best, most unstable detective in Britain. (How do someone’s shoulders convey so much emotion?)

Though the show has been awash with buzz since premiering in 2010, it’s actually been off the air since 2011. What’s happened since? New killer(s) on the loose, of course. Luther, still unraveling, of course. And Ruth Wilson’s Alice — she’s back, y’all, and she’s waving at us.

Check it out below:

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Feb 12 2013 11:32 AM ET

Lohan-less Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton movie coming to the BBC

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Reasons the BBC’s upcoming TV movie about one of Hollywood’s most famous couples will be different from Lifetime’s infamous 2012 film based on the very same pair:

1. This one is called Burton and Taylor, not Liz & Dick. (Surnames are classier.)

2. It stars The Wire‘s Dominic West and Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter in the title roles — rather than New Zealand-born actor Grant Bowler and certified train wreck Lindsay Lohan.

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Feb 8 2013 02:42 PM ET

BBC series 'Being Human' canceled

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British supernatural series Being Human has been canceled, BBC announced Thursday. The show will wrap up its fifth and final season (or series as our friends across the pond call them) later this year on BBC Three.

Series creator Toby Whithouse promised an “epic, thrilling and shocking finale” in a post on the show’s official blog. Hal, Tom and Alex will face off with their most fearsome adversary yet: the Devil himself.

About a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost living under the same roof, the format was adapted to an American series of the same name, which is currently airing its third season on Syfy.

The six-episode fifth season kicked off earlier this month on BBC Three. An air date for the finale has not yet been scheduled.

[CORRECTION Feb. 8 4:47 p.m. ET: An earlier version of this post stated that season 5 of Being Human had begun airing on BBC America. The fifth season has in fact not begun airing in the U.S., and a premiere date has not been set by the network, EW has confirmed.]

Read more:
‘Being Human’ exec producer Toby Whithouse talks season 4 finale
Sam Witwer breaks down Syfy’s ‘Being Human’ season premiere, teases what’s to come
BBC America’s ‘Orphan Black’: See the first teaser trailer and key art — EXCLUSIVE

Jan 14 2013 02:13 PM ET

BBC America puts first three minutes of 'Ripper Street' on YouTube -- VIDEO

Good news for Anglophiles who aren’t satisfied by new episodes of Downton Abbey alone: This Saturday, BBC America will premiere a new period miniseries called Ripper Street.

The show is set in London’s infamously seedy East End in 1889, six months after the last documented Jack the Ripper murder. When another prostitute is found dead — er, ripped — a pair of detectives played by Matthew Macfadyen (Mr. Darcy!) and Jerome Flynn find themselves wondering if the killer is up to his old tricks.

Here’s the first three minutes of the miniseries, courtesy of BBC America. Think it’ll be enough to tide you over between Downton viewings — and until Sherlock finally returns?

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Dec 3 2012 01:37 PM ET

J.K. Rowling's 'Casual Vacancy' coming to television

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J.K. Rowling’s novel The Casual Vacancy will be turned into a television series on BBC One, the BBC announced today with a release on their website. The novel, which received mixed reviews, centers around a local election in Pagford after a sudden death.

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