Television

The Law According to Lidia Poët is an Italian television series streaming on Netflix, inspired by the true story of the first female lawyer in Italy. Set in the 1880s in the historic city of Turin in the Piedmont region – it had been capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1864 – each of the six episodes deals with a fictional murder mystery, brilliantly solved by this fearless young woman, who offers legal representation to the person unjustly accused of the crime and conducts daring investigations to prove their innocence and discover the real culprit.

March marks the time to celebrate Irish American Heritage Month. Here are some of the top Irish acting exports in Hollywood, along with American Public Television programming centered on Irish culture and history.

The new Hulu miniseries The 1619 Project starts with a simple statement: “In August 1619, a ship arrived on these shores in Virginia carrying the very first enslaved Africans to be brought to the British colonies of North America. ” Through many different perspectives and narratives, the series expounds on how nothing in American history was the same after this point and, more specifically, on how American history has been shaped by the ripple effects of that voyage.

Sports have long been talked about as being a great social unifier, especially in the United States of America. Of course, this is only partially true.

During Black History Month, there are no shortage of fascinating stories available to strengthen our appreciation for the contributions made by African Americans to U. S.

The new hit TV drama, Fire Country, explores the world of firefighting from the unique point of view of the inmates who fight alongside local firefighters in a special California camp program.   While the Northern California town where the show is set is fictional, the California Conservation Camp Program is very real.

Callina Liang is among the six new young talents who star in the new ITVX coming-of-age drama from the creators of Skins. In Tell Me Everything, she plays the mysterious new girl, Mei, who joins a group of five college friends.

Svandis Dora Einarsdottir stars as the female Chief of the Narcotics Division in the Netflix crime series Entrapped (2022). In Entrapped, the third season of the Scandi noir series, the Icelandic police force is investigating the brutal murder of a young man who lived in rural Iceland with a pagan cult which is engaged in a land dispute with a motorcycle gang with ties to Denmark.

The third and final season of Lisa McGee’s popular series Derry Girls debuted in the UK in January of 2018. It streams for international audiences this month.

Actor Russell Hornsby portrays the larger-than-life character Don King, a ruthless ambitious boxing promotor who takes Tyson’s boxing career to the next level in Hulu’s Mike, a limited TV series that explores the tragic and controversial life and career of Mike Tyson, one of the most prominent figures in sports of all time. Hornsby, born on May 15, 1974, in San Francisco and best known for his work in The Hate U Give (2018) Fences (2016), and Meet the Parents (2000), gives a stellar performance and shows great chemistry with his fellow actor Trevante Rhodes, who takes on the role of Tyson.