New in the stream: Acorn TV’s lineup for March 2021!
Acorn TV has announced its upcoming lineup for the month of March, including the highly anticipated Acorn TV Original series Bloodlandswith James Nesbitt (The missing, Cold feet). Co-executive produced by award-winning showrunner Jed Mercurio, creator of two of the UK’s most recent top rated dramas. Bodyguard and Line and dutyThis four-part Irish crime thriller will premiere in the US on March 15 on BBC One a few weeks after its UK launch.
In addition, Acorn TV viewers can look forward to it The attaché, a Hebrew / French drama from hit series producers Shtisel about an Israeli-Moroccan-Jewish musician who moves with his family to Paris to take over his wife’s new job as attaché in the Israeli embassy.
Check out the full lineup for Acorn TV March 2021 below!
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Monday March 1st
Law & Order UK, Series 3 (USA only)
A multitude of top British actors form the ensemble of this British adaptation of the groundbreaking Emmy award-winning legal and crime drama. Law & Order. Utilizing the iconic two-part structure of the original series, which first focuses on investigating a crime at the police level and then focuses on prosecuting the suspects in the second half, Law & Order: Great Britain approaches the format and characters from a uniquely English perspective. Starring Bradley Walsh (Torn, Coronation Street), Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica), Harriet Walter (Belgravia), Peter Davison (Doctor Who), Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who, Torchwood) and Jessica Gunning (Back). (13 EPS, 2010)
The cat hospital
This series of observations shows the cute, cozy and dramatic everyday life in Ireland’s first veterinary hospital that only cares for cats. We go behind the scenes at the Cork Cat Hospital and meet the cats and watch their cases unfold, from grooming and neutering to home visits to life and death medical emergencies. We watch cat expert Clare Meade and her team of dedicated professionals at work looking after their adorable animal customers. (6 EPS, 2019)
Monday, Monday
Sally (Morven Christie, The Bay) wants to carry on from the friend who fired her. If the company she works for moves, this is an opportunity for a fresh start – even if this is the case with her incompetent boss Christine (Fay Ripley, Cold feet). On her first evening at work, she meets the charming Steven (Tom Ellis, Lucifer) but after making him sick, she hopes never to see him again. The next day brings an unpleasant surprise – he is the assistant to the new COO Alyson (Holly Aird, Wake up the dead). Worse, he’s her boyfriend too. (7 EPS, 2009)
Monday March 8th
The strange calls
This unique Australian series paints a light-hearted portrait of a recently disgraced town policeman, Toby Banks (Toby Truslove, Bad mothers, House husbands), who was transferred to the seemingly quiet, idyllic coastal town of Coolum Beach to occupy the night shift. Its job is to answer the phone calls of the locals in the late evening – moments of midnight madness that reveal the bizarre truth of the city: a place where people become chickens, mermen go to school dance, and a mysterious radio jingle puts you in one can transform lawnmower zombie. Prepared by the night watchman Gregor (Barry Crocker, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie) Banks tiredly goes to investigate these “strange calls.” He always knew he was born to help people, he just didn’t know that it would be those people in this crazy city. (6 EPS, 2012)
Love my way, Series 3
This Australian prime time drama centers on a woman aged 30 (Claudia Karvan, Spirited) who negotiates the web of contemporary relationships while balancing family commitments priorities. Nominated by the producer of the Golden Globe At the beach and internationally known TV series Police rescueThis Logie Award-winning series is an exploration of the love that binds us, the relationships that define us, and the dreams of adults. Also with Asher Keddie (The Scream) and Brendan Cowell (The punch). (8 EPS, 2007)
Monday March 15th
Bloodlands (Acorn TV Original) (1 of 4 episodes, with weekly premieres on Mondays)
When an expensive car with a possible suicide note is pulled out of the sea, Northern Ireland Police Veteran Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt, The missing, Cold feet, The Hobbit) immediately sees the connection to a notorious cold case, which has enormous personal significance for him. It appears that someone is trying to force the police to resume their investigation into an infamous and long-buried series of mysterious disappearances over 20 years ago at a dark time in Northern Ireland’s history. This intense Irish crime thriller follows Brannick’s obsessive campaign to identify and expose the legendary assassin behind these events, a semi-mythical figure nicknamed Goliath: it’s an explosive game of cat and mouse that has never been about higher stakes . Bloodlands will premiere on BBC One on Acorn TV before launch in North America. Co-executive produced by Jed Mercurio, creator / EP of Bodyguard and Exercise of duty. (1 EP, 2021)
In the deep, Series 1
Life as an undercover detective is demanding. One slip can lead to disaster, something Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, EastEnders, Heartbeat) and Garth O’Hanlon (Stephen Tompkinson, DCI banks, Drop the dead donkey) knows only too well. The pressures of leading a complicated double life means sacrifices must be made for the job and the impact on their personal lives is immense. (6 EPS, 2001)
Law & Order UK, Series 4-5 (USA only)
A multitude of top British actors form the ensemble of this British adaptation of the groundbreaking Emmy award-winning legal and crime drama. Law & Order. Utilizing the iconic two-part structure of the original series, which first focuses on investigating a crime at the police level and then focuses on prosecuting the suspects in the second half, Law & Order: Great Britain approaches the format and characters from a uniquely English perspective. Starring Bradley Walsh (Torn, Coronation Street), Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica), Harriet Walter (killing eve), Peter Davison (doctor WHO) and Jessica Gunning (Back). (14 EPS, 2011)
Monday March 22nd
The attaché (Acorn TV Exclusive, Foreign Language, Hebrew / French)
From the producers of hit series Shtisel: The series’ creator, director and writer, Elie Ben David (Anachnu BaMapa, Buba Shel Layla) based this story on his personal experiences of life in Paris over the past few years. Ben David portrays an Israeli-Jewish man of Moroccan descent, a successful musician who moved to Paris for his wife’s new job as an attaché at the Israeli embassy in Paris. His wife becomes a busy Parisian career woman, funnier and busier than ever. There in the eternal capital of romanticism, he has a marriage crisis, a personal immigration crisis in the heart of Europe, and a crisis of masculinity and fatherhood. (10 EPS, 2019)
Bloodlands (Acorn TV Original) – Episode 2 of 4
Save Britain’s Worst Zoo
When the animal-loving Tweedy family bought a zoo in West Wales, all their dreams came true. Borth Wild Animal Kingdom brought over 300 animals including lions, monkeys, snakes and a leopard. With a lot of enthusiasm but no experience, Dean and Tracey Tweedy were about to become real Durrells. But when a lynx escaped, the dream life quickly turned into a never-ending nightmare of lawsuits, death threats and spiraling debt. This intriguing and emotional series was shot with incredible access while it was all happening. It tells the real behind-the-scenes story of an event that made international headlines. (4 EPS, 2019)
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Monday March 29th
The Brokenwood Secrets, Series 7 (Acorn TV Exclusive) (episode 1 of 6, new episodes Monday through May 4th)
Regarded by many as the New Zealand version of Midsomer murdersThis acclaimed detective series, filmed in the middle of the beautiful landscape of the north of the country, returns with six stand-alone, feature-length mysteries with compelling characters, dry humor and piquant wit. After moving from a big town to the quiet, small, murder-ridden town of Brokenwood, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea, Go girl) and Detective Kristin Simms (Fern Sutherland, The almighty Johnsons) Uncover more macabre happenings and investigate grueling rivalries and deadly resentments. (1 EP, 2021)
Bloodlands (Acorn TV Original) – Episode 3 of 4
The Gods of the Wheat Road
An intimate journey into the lives, hearts and humor of the Freeburns – a modern day Australian Aboriginal family of local legends – this series is about letting go of the past with a little magic and enough dead humor to tackle the future. Throughout the six-part series, we follow the trials and tribulations of Odin Freeburn and his family as they rise above obstacles that would bring mere mortals to their knees – and move on to the important issues of love, family, and football. It features a cast of some of Australia’s finest indigenous actors, including Kelton Pell (Stoned bros), Ursula Yovich (Australia), Lisa Flanagan (Look both ways) and Shari Sebbens (Logie Prize Winner) (Redfern now). (6 EPS, 2013)
In the deep, Series 2
