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The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade

#TV #Sitcoms #Drama #International If streaming was the television story of the decade, then close behind was the explosion of global content that came to American screens to help fill all that new bandwidth. Shows suddenly appeared from all over the world, most noticeably financed or acquired by Netflix but also flooding in through a myriad of other streaming services and cable networks. Americans  will  read subtitles, it turns out. (I’d prefer to think no one’s choosing the dubbed English soundtracks.) The world is a big place, with a lot of production companies, and on any given day in 2019 there were likely to be more international shows premiering in America than American-made shows. Over the years I’ve tried to sample as much of that bounty as I could, from cozy British mysteries to florid Asian soap operas and everything in between. I’ve distilled all those hours into this list of my top 30 international shows of the last decade, full of glaring omissions which you’r

ABC has passed on two of its buzziest pilots, Get Christie Love and For Love.

Kylie Bunbury and Lex Scott Davis  #ABC #Drama #GetChristieLove #KylieBunbury #LexScottDavis #Reboot #TeresaGraves While they were never considered frontrunners, trade publications reported both to be in contention for pickup.  Of the two,  Get Christie Love  (toplined by  Pitch  star Kylie Bunbury)   seemed like a good chance. A reboot of the 1974 blaxploitation TV movie and short-lived series of the same name, its original star, the late Teresa Graves, was the first black woman to star in her own hour-long drama series. This would not happen again until  Scandal  with Kerry Washington, which wrapped last month after seven seasons .  The nod here would have been great. The pilot was a passion project for  Power  showrunner Courtney Kemp, and Vin Diesel and Debra Martin Chase were executive producers. The series would have also starred Khandi Alexander.  For Love  had a unique premise starring Lex Scott Davis as a headstrong journalist. "Suffering from a great tragedy, b