{"id":631994,"date":"2026-04-26T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631994\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:21:09","slug":"this-is-your-next-must-watch-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631994\/","title":{"rendered":"This is your next must-watch TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regularly hailed as one of the greatest British shows of all time, Broadchurch, the 2013 crime drama starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman, was bound to get an American remake. And like successful US versions of The Office, Shameless and The Night Of, Gracepoint had big (gum)shoes to fill, even if fans of the original have long argued that a glossier adaptation was utterly unnecessary.<\/p>\n

But was Hollywood really so wrong to remake Broadchurch?<\/p>\n

When Gracepoint is viewed in isolation rather than in direct comparison to its predecessor, it is objectively a well told, character-driven story about a murder in a small town, albeit a sleepy California hamlet rather than a sleepy Dorset hamlet. And perhaps, without the shadow of Broadchurch looming so large, the 2014 series may have received the same acclaim as prestige shows such as Mare Of Easttown or The Killing, especially considering it features an impressive cast including Nick Nolte, Michael Pe\u00f1a and Jacki Weaver.<\/p>\n

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Tennant, who was imported to reprise his role as Alec Hardy, the show\u2019s jaded big city detective \u2013 only now with an American accent and named Emmett Carver \u2013 says that Gracepoint was largely intended for those who hadn\u2019t watched Broadchurch. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t set out to change anything particularly,\u201d he explained to Starry magazine about his work on both dramas. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just tried to tell the story as it came up and through the script and be as truthful and loyal to that as possible. I think Hardy and Carver are very different, actually.\u00a0They certainly feel very different in my bones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gracepoint<\/a> is now streaming on Tubi.<\/p>\n

Elaborating in Variety, Tennant said of his characters, \u201cObviously, they both look quite like me, and they\u2019re similar heights. But they feel different for all sorts of reasons, because of the circumstances of everyone around me. You\u2019re playing opposite this extraordinary Rolls-Royce of a cast. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m also very fortunate to play with a Rolls-Royce of a cast back home, but it\u2019s a very different one and that creates a different set of circumstances to be within. It\u2019s such an unusual situation. It\u2019s quite hard to be entirely objective about it myself because it\u2019s the same character and yet it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite winning a BAFTA for her performance in Broadchurch, Colman was not invited to join Tennant in the US reboot. Instead the role of Ellie Miller was recast with Anna Gunn, still fresh from her success as Walter White\u2019s long-suffering spouse, Skyler, on Breaking Bad.<\/p>\n

After creating such memorable TV with Colman, Tennant admits he went into Gracepoint a bit nervous about trying to do the same with Gunn. <\/p>\n

\u201cLuckily, she just turned out to be a proper actress,\u201d he told Starry. \u201cSomeone who was committed to getting it right, who was open, who was easy to work with, who you could also have a laugh with, who you could throw anything at and she would respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just the kind of professional relationship that you always hope for. It was a huge relief and then a great joy to work with her throughout the 10 episodes.\u00a0Everyone who knows her work knows how talented she is.\u00a0I was very chuffed to get to play alongside and also get to know her off set as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Colman hasn\u2019t offered an opinion on Gracepoint broadly or Gunn\u2019s performance specifically, the Oscar-winner did hose down suggestions she carried any sort of grudge. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an American show and they should cast American people,\u201d Colman told Digital Spy. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf it was a British show and we cast all Americans, it would be wrong, wouldn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Fed up with being asked about the role of Ellie going to Gunn, an exasperated Colman added, \u201cSorry, at the moment it\u2019s a bugbear, because everyone has said, \u2018Are you really cross?\u2019 It has never crossed my mind as something that\u2019s annoying. If they asked me to do something, I\u2019m sure it would be lovely. If it was a good script \u2013 it\u2019s warm and they pay well, so who wouldn\u2019t go?\u201d<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Colman was the only actor on Broadchurch who knew the culprit from the outset. The ending was so shrouded in secrecy that none of her fellow actors (including Tennant) clued into the killer\u2019s identity until they began filming the final episode.<\/p>\n

Loosely inspired by Twin Peaks and the Steven Bochco series Murder One, creator Chris Chibnall didn\u2019t want Broadchurch or Gracepoint to be a simple whodunit.<\/p>\n

Rather, Chibnall set out to show viewers how one murder could turn an entire town into victims. He recalled his experience writing scenes in Law & Order: UK in which a family member had to identify the body of a loved one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started thinking, where does that person go after they\u2019ve been in this one scene? When they walk out of the morgue or office, how do they live their lives?\u201d Chibnall told Fast Company. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I realised: that\u2019s a show! In that sense, Broadchurch is that one scene from Law & Order extrapolated into a strand that explores a family\u2019s grief and how they try to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because Gracepoint deals with the ripple effects that the loss of someone has on those left behind, Tennant said the series will leave viewers feeling haunted. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very hard to watch the first episode without your heart breaking for the family, actually,\u201d he told Starry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s helped by the fact that they\u2019re played by Michael Pe\u00f1a and Virginia Kull, who both really take you on this harrowing, awful journey of two parents who lose a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just takes you on the journey. It kind of grabs you and takes you on this journey, which is bewildering and thrilling and gruelling and gruesome, and yet, at the same time, I think impossible to turn off.\u201d<\/p>\n

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