Following the grand finale Wednesday night, The Great British Bake-Off on the BBC is no more. It has passed on. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has run down the curtain and gone off to meet the choir invisible. Bake off is an ex-series….on the BBC, that is. It will still live on […]
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Sherlock 4! New Year’s Day! PBS’ Masterpiece! — “It’s not a game anymore”! Even the NCAA knows enough to not go up against the return of the world’s greatest consulting detective as, magically, there are no bowl games on New Year’s Day this year. There are games December 31 and games on January 2 but […]
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At long last, Shaun the Sheep is set to return to the big screen in the not-too-distant future. Long-time fans will no doubt remember when Shaun first came on the scene with an appearance in the Wallace and Gromit Oscar-winning short film by Nick Park, A Close Shave, in 1995. From that brief appearance, Shaun got his […]
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I can remember a time when Saturday Night Live was so good, you didn’t go out until it ended. Those were the days of Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Laraine Newman and Garrett Morris. Fast forward to the 90s and the days of Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Chris Farley and […]
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Sadly, these posts are happening with too much frequency these days. Jimmy Perry, creator and co-writer (with David Croft) on what’s is considered one of the most popular British TV sitcoms has passed at age 93. Voted #4 in the 2004 Britain’s Best Sitcom poll, Dad’s Army told the story of the British Home Guard during World War II. In […]
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While most of us cringe at even the first hint of an appearance of Christmas decorations in storefront windows (mainly due to the fact that they usually start appearing before Halloween), there are certain celebrated events or, in this case, yearly traditions to where it’s ok to begin talking about the upcoming holiday. Right at […]
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Buck up little cookery campers, looks like there’s a new baking sheriff in town and it goes by the name of The Big Family Cooking Challenge. The new amateur cookery program will pit family teams of home cooks against each other (with appropriate British civility, I’m sure), with the judges visiting homes to deliver the challenges and […]
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This is quintessential Cleese. The British comedy legend recaps series 1-6 of The Walking Dead in rapid fire fashion ahead of the series’ seventh season which heads back to our collective small screens this weekend. Given the fact that there isn’t enough clock time between now and Sunday’s S7 premiere, how very thoughtful of Mr. Cleese to […]
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“On the 23rd June, Britain voted to leave the European Union,” as the BBC has reminded us. “Then, on the 4th July, Nigel Farage, the man who had made it all possible, resigned saying he wanted his life back. But what sort of life has he gone back to, and how does a man forever […]
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Tellyspotting is taking a bit of a breather from all the brilliant drama and comedy offerings that have littered the hallways of Fall 2016 to showcase yet another upcoming epic bit of work from Sir David Attenborough. Planet Earth II, beginning in November on BBC1, is the 10-years in the making sequel to the highly […]
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