New to Acorn TV in December

The re-make of Poldark starring Aiden Turner makes its Acorn TV debut this month, along with season three of French policewoman drama Candice Renoir, S1 of the original Cracker and a Rebecca Gibney telemovie franchise.

Here’s the full slate of newcomers for December:

THE SYNDICATE: ALL OR NOTHING S1

From BAFTA Award-winning writer Kay Mellor comes the story of Hazelwood Manor. The once impressive manor is crumbling and its owners are burdened in debt. The tables are well and truly turned when the five remaining staff win the lottery and the balance of power shifts from upstairs to downstairs. (6 eps, 2012)

ENDEAVOUR S8

The newest season of the long-running prequel to the classic Inspector Morse has young Morse and his team continue on their mission to take on the worst that 1970s Oxford has to offer. (3 eps, 2021)

RECTIFY S2
After his release from death row, Daniel Holden (Rake’s Aden Young) must cope with a family and a town that were unprepared for and, in some cases, opposed to his return. (10 eps, 2014)

December 13

SMALL CLAIMS

Australian mystery films starring Rebecca Gibney and Claudia Karvan as two overworked young mums who become a formidable pair of sleuth inbvesitgationg murders, greed and dark passions in the ‘burbs. (3 movies, 2004)

POLDARK S1

Ross Poldark returns home after the American Revolutionary War and rebuilds his life with a new business venture, making new enemies and finding a new love where he least expects it. (8 eps, 2015)

December 20

CRACKER S1

One of British television’s most acclaimed crime dramas stars Robbie Coltraneas the brash and brilliant forensic psychologist, Dr. Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald. (7 eps, 2003)

REPUBLIC OF DOYLE S5

This sexy, light-hearted mystery series set in Newfoundland sees Jake Doyle (Jack Ryan’s Allan Hawko) and his father as private eyes not always on the right side of the law. (16 eps, 2013)

December 27

CANDICE RENOIR S3

Candice Renoir, a mother of four children, resumes her job as a policewoman 10 years after being laid off. It’s not easy being a mother and a police commander, especially when struggling to be accepted by colleagues and a little outdated by new technologies. (10 eps, 2015)

BANCROFT S1-2

Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft (Sarah Parish) and her young colleague DS Katherine Stevens (Faye Marsay) try to solve a 1990 cold case. (8 eps, 2017/2020)