Screen Test

Lily (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and George (Hugh Jackman) in "The Sheep Detectives."  Amazon MGM photo via IMDb.com Showing my age, I’ve become fond of British whodunnits on PBS. So the end of “Grantchester” along with summer recess of “Patience” produced a bit of a funk. Luckily a woolly posse arrived to pick up the slack. Now available on Prime Video, the peculiarly titled, family-friendly crime comedy “The Sheep Detectives” is unexpectedly touching, not to mention, great fun. Reminiscent of the groundbreaking “Babe,” most of the cast members have four legs and are computer-generated. A stellar ensemble led by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Bryan Cranston  and Brett Goldstein provide their voices. Hugh Jackman leads the actual humans on screen, playing shepherd George. From his oh-so-cozy caravan (that’s British for Airstream) parked in their meadow, George is utterly devoted to his flock. He turns out to be a bloomin’ genius, too, and more than a little prescient as...