WETA UK Highlights

The Vicar of Dibley

Mondays at 9 p.m. starting April 3 on WETA UK

Apopular British sitcom created by screenwriter/director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Blackadder and Mr. Bean), this series was written for its lead actor, comedian Dawn French (left, with Emma Chambers as assistant Alice Tinker). Set in a fictional Oxfordshire village, the storyline follows the vicar, newly assigned after the 1992 changes in the Church of England that permitted the ordination of women. The tiny congregation — six faithful, eccentric souls — reacts to her arrival with a mixture of wonder and horror. David Horton, autocratic head of the parish council, is appalled; but Rev. Geraldine Granger steps full of optimism into Dibley’s quaint world.

Alibi

WThursdays at 10 p.m. starting April 27 on WETA UK

ETA UK reprises a romantic dark comedy that follows two people brought together in the most unusual of circumstances. Starring Michael Kitchen (Foyle’s War), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey) and Tom Knight (EastEnders), and written by acclaimed screenwriter Paul Abbott, known for hit series including Reckless and Touching Evil, the three-part 2003 drama features a rollercoaster of love, murder and lies. As the story begins, Greg Brentwood throws an anniversary party for his wife, Linda, at their house. Later that night, Marcey, one of the caterers, returns to the house to retrieve her handbag and walks in on an astonishing scene that binds her to Greg.

Broadchurch, Series 1

WSaturdays, 8-11 p.m. starting April 22 on WETA UK

ETA UK presents the acclaimed, BAFTA- and Peabody Award-winning 2013 crime drama Broadchurch (9 p.m.), starring Emmy Award-winner David Tennant and Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman as police detectives Alec Hardy, a new arrival, and Ellie Miller, a local. Together they must investigate the murder of 11-year-old Danny Latimer in coastal Dorset. The slowly unfolding mystery follows the aftermath of the crime and its impact in a seemingly placid seaside town. In the case, secrets abound when the murder sparks grief, suspicion and an unwanted media frenzy. As the town’s locals start to open up about what they do and don’t know, the police must catch the killer. Series 1 features 8 episodes.

The Hour, Series 1

WThursdays at 8 p.m. starting April 20 on WETA UK

ETA reprises a six-part drama set in 1956 Britain spotlighting a new current-affairs television program, The Hour, being launched by BBC at the time of the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution. Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai and Dominic West star, alongside Tim Pigott-Smith, Anton Lesser, Anna Chancellor and others. In the story, young TV journalists Freddie and Bel yearn for bigger, bolder stories to spotlight. Freddie is drawn into a murky world of subterfuge, intimidation, political scheming, and a shattering conspiracy. Joining the team producing The Hour, the two begin work for the show’s charismatic anchor, and a love triangle emerges that drives their ambitions for the broadcast.

Also this month: WETA UK reprises French police drama Astrid, Tuesdays at 9 p.m.; presents the Draper’s Tours comic-mystery Murder, They Hope, Saturday, April 15, 8-11 p.m.; and features Season 1 of celebrity history series My Grandparents’ War, Sundays at 8 p.m. starting April 23 (Season 2 airs on WETA PBS & WETA Metro this month).

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