Anyone who has ever tried to pick a show likely knows that the universe of streaming television is vast. If you feel like you’ve exhausted most of the obvious streaming options, you might want to check out BritBox, which features a collection of some of the best British television shows to watch.
Even within BritBox, though, the options are pretty vast and overwhelming. So we’ve pulled together this list of three options well worth your time this month. If we’re being honest, there are a lot of crime shows on this list. But the Brits make a lot of crime shows. Without further ado, here are the shows you should check out this month:
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A BritBox original series that first debuted last year, After the Flood tells the story of a female police officer who is asked to investigate the death of an unidentified man in the aftermath of a devastating flood. Thanks to a pretty riveting central mystery, After the Flood is well worth watching even if all you’re looking for is a great crime procedural.
It would spoil the show to get into more details, but After the Flood is ultimately about a lot more than just how this man met his end, and engaging with it on that level is also worthwhile. Anchored by a brilliant central performance from Sophie Rundle, After the Flood is what a great mystery show should be.
You can watch After the Flood on BritBox.
Adapted from a Charles Dickens novel of the same name, Bleak House tells the story of a battle over an estate, highlighting the many injustices of the 19th-century British court system. The series features an all-star cast, including Gillian Anderson and a young Carey Mulligan, and was told over 15 episodes in 2005.
Bleak House is stunningly shot, especially for an era when most television was not so carefully composed, and it manages to get its hands across most of the huge panoply of characters that Dickens left in his original novel. The resolution of the estate battle is only one small piece of the broader world this series creates.
You can watch Bleak House on BritBox.
The latest adaptation of a famous detective story, Maigret follows Jules Maigret, its titular detective, as he solves a crime in Paris. The series stars Rowan Atkinson, who puts his own spin on the gruff character who has been adapted for decades. In its first season, Maigret is focused on hunting down a serial killer, while in the second, he finds himself investigating a complex crime of corruption in the French countryside.
Although it only lasted two seasons, Maigret is a pretty excellent detective story and a reminder of why the Brits spend so much of their creative effort telling these kinds of stories.
You can watch Maigret on BritBox.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?