Winter = evenings on the couch. I would like to say we are reading thick, educational nonfiction tomes, learning how to speak Italian, washing the mini blinds and dusting bookshelves, but…we’re not.

Instead we are glued to all sorts of wonderful new shows.

Meet DCI Ellis. You can watch this new show on Acorn.

How about a new season of “Death in Paradise”, on Britbox? We have a new police inspector, played by one of my favorite British actors, Don Gilet.

It’s a light, comedic mystery show in its 14th season, using the “fish out of water” premise for police inspectors assigned to an island in the Bahamas.

I just discovered “Dagliesh” when Season 3 dropped earlier this month. It’s fabulous and what great characters! Dagliesh is a police detective and a poet in the 1970’s who is grieving the loss of his child and wife. Also on Acorn.

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And then another favorite, PROTECTION on Britbox.

From Imdb: Follows a witness protection officer who finds herself at the center of a breach; compromised by an extramarital romance with a coworker; but resolute in her resolve to fight back and unearth the real cause of corruption within her unit.

We’re in the middle of season 1 of DARK WINDS on Amazon.

From Wikipedia: Dark Winds is an American psychological thriller television series created by Graham Roland. Based on the Leaphorn & Chee novel series by Tony Hillerman, it stars Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon as the aforementioned two characters, leading a mostly Native American cast.

You will remember Zahn McClarnon from “Longmire”. He’s such a great actor and this series has us completely sucked in. What’s going to happen next? No clue!

That’s the news from the couch…