Acorn TV launches in the UK today – and they’ve made a trailer

29 April 2020 Rob Buckley Australian and New Zealand TV, European TV, International TV, Nordic TV Post a comment

Acorn TV is a US channel that functions a little like Walter Presents does for us in the UK – except it also lets Americans enjoy the best of British TV as well.

(Obviously, for me, that’s ‘best’, but YMMV)

Now it’s launching in the UK today on Roku, Fire TV, Android and Apple mobile, Apple TV and (soon) Amazon Channels and Apple TV Channels. And here’s the trailer.

Foyle’s War

What’s on?

UK TV when it launches will include:

  • Wild at Heart
  • Foyle’s War
  • Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
  • Agatha Christie: Partners in Crime
  • Agatha Christie: The Witness for the Prosecution
  • Above Suspicion
  • Accused
  • Keeping Faith
  • George Gently
  • Girlfriends
  • The Bletchley Circle
  • The Great Train Robbery
  • The Commander
  • The Irish RM
  • The Last Enemy
  • The Level

But more interestingly for TMINE, its world TV includes:

But there’ll be new programmes added every Monday.

Obviously, a lot of that has already been made available on BBC Four, Walter Presents et al, and if you want lots of archive British TV, there’s also Britbox.

However, Acorn also makes its own TV shows, which should give it slightly more of a USP. As well as sequels to ITV’s The Bletchley Circle and Sky’s Agatha Raisin, it’s got Queens of Mystery, which has never aired in the UK.

You can sign up for a 30-day free trial, after which it’s £4.99 per month or £49.99 per year.

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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