This sort of put-upon, nervy air makes Mitchell the perfect lead of Ludwig, a BBC One dramedy—one that leans more toward comedy than drama—that aired last fall and lands on BritBox this week.

“The Residence,” on Netflix, stars Uzo Aduba as a sleuth with a passion for bird-watching; “Ludwig,” on BritBox, offers David Mitchell as a professional puzzle maker impersonating his ...

“Ludwig,” streaming on BritBox, stars David Mitchell as a reclusive puzzle setter who solves mysteries. And then the world makes sense again. By Eleanor Stanford Reporting from London In the ...

David Mitchell is aiming to deliver "more of the same" in Ludwig season 2, which intends to commence filming later this year. The former Peep Show star and Would I Lie to You? panellist has ...

He also invented Friday cat blogging. By Clay Risen Kevin Drum, who gave up his day job in software marketing to write online about politics, policy and his cats, quickly becoming a key figure in ...

A lifelong bachelor, he’d love nothing more than to stay home designing crosswords and other logic puzzles under his nom de puzz (so to speak), Ludwig. But his fiendish cleverness is a family ...

(His coverage of Elon Musk’s rampage through the federal bureaucracy has few rivals.) Kevin Drum, who joined this magazine in April 2004 and wrote our “Political Animal” blog for the next ...