Never mind the fact that Broadchurch is a series filled with rape, murder, small-town intrigue and dodgy locals. Last month, with one grisly image during an episode of Broadchurch, David Tennant sent millions of fans into orbit. The image of DI Alec Hardy placing a cup of tea in the microwave. A microwave of all things! It was definitely […]
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of the picture below of Victoria and Albert, it’s certainly worth at least a thousand, if not more. Daisy Goodwin, the creator/writer of Victoria, says the course of true love won’t run smooth for Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes when series 2 hits the small screen […]
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As we all know, The Doctor is an alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels through all of time and space in his TARDIS with his companion. In anticipation of Saturday’s series 10 premiere on BBC1 and BBC America, companions Pearl Mackie (Bill Potts) and Matt Lucas (Nardole) give us an up-close-and-personal crash course […]
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While Sherlock fans could be waiting a long time for new episodes of the BBC/PBS detective drama, much closer on the horizon is a chance to hear the music from the show played by a live orchestra. Composers David Arnold and Michael Price will be bringing the show’s score to a live audience as a follow-up to […]
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John Cleese is back and the British sitcom world is all the better for it. Almost four decades removed from the world of sitcom, the former founding member of Monty Python will appear in his first BBC sitcom since Fawlty Towers ended in 1979. Edith will see Cleese head an all-star cast including Alison Steadman (Gavin & Stacey, […]
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Living vicariously from 5000 miles away, the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival took place this past weekend and, as usual, there was no shortage of brilliant bits and bobs for those interested in British television of any genre. Fresh off his most recent effort of flawlessly bringing the fictional French police detective, Jules Maigret, back […]
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Tim Pigott-Smith, the acclaimed British character actor, who catapulted to fame in the 1980s as the villainous police superintendent, Ronald Merrick, in the television series, The Jewel in the Crown, died on Friday in Northampton, England at the age of 70. Pigott-Smith won the BAFTA Award of Best Actor in 1985 for his work in The Jewel […]
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With the Agatha Raisin series airing Saturdays at 7p on KERA in North Texas and on a number of other public television stations across the U.S. later this month, fans of Doc Martin, Father Brown and Death in Paradise are definitely going to love this series! A cross between Doc Martin and Prime Suspect, the quirky crime drama stars Ashley Jensen (Ugly […]
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The UK’s longest running contemporary detective drama series, Midsomer Murders, is celebrating two decades of murder in the picturesque, but deadly, countryside of Midsomer as filming begins next month on the 20th anniversary series. Neil Dudgeon returns as DCI John Barnaby for his seventh year in the role alongside Nick Hendrix, who is back as DS […]
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Once again, to the delight of longtime Poldark fans, the original Captain Ross Poldark, Robin Ellis, has taken a break from his home in the picturesque French countryside and put aside his culinary passions for a brief moment to appear the new series of Poldark as Reverand Halse, the clergyman with whom Ross shares the coach on his journey home to […]
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