Ten brilliant TV shows created by awesome women

Cops, doctors, variety shows writers, reality show producers, women are running the show – and running the shows. To celebrate International Women’s Day, Tara Ward is saluting ten of Lightbox’s best shows made by women.  It’s a well-known fact that women are awesome. They also make awesome television, whether its comedy, drama or a bicycle-riding … Read more

The days are getting longer so here’s some new TV to binge

On the first day of Spring, we present to you all the content sprouting forth in September for you to enjoy on Lightbox.  Happy Valley (S2 available now) The second season of the British chiller returns with Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood back on her murder beat. With a string of homicides hitting West Yorkshire, and … Read more

Behold: Ten shows for you to binge watch over Queen’s Birthday weekend

Inside the Lightbox is a sponsored feature where we pick shows from their extensive back catalogue that you might like to watch. This week, we get your long weekend sorted with the best shows to binge watch. Queen’s Birthday weekend is so close we can almost smell the corgi shampoo in the air, and the … Read more

A field guide to Happy Valley, the show that isn’t even a little bit happy

A police drama set in a West Yorkshire village may not sound like a must-watch, but Ethan Sills finds that Happy Valley is a surprisingly tense and graphic thriller that packs an emotional punch. A police drama? Yawn!  Happy Valley is not your regular British cop drama. This is more psychological than procedural, a cat-and-mouse chase met … Read more