Set in the dark underbelly of Victorian London, Miss Scarlet and the Duke is headed to Drama Sundays on PBS. Starring Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders, The Downton Abbey Movie, Wolf Hall and The Crown) as Eliza Scarlet, and Stuart Martin (Jamestown, Babylon, Medici) as The Duke, Miss Scarlet and the Duke comes to Masterpiece beginning January 17 at 8pET/7pCT on […]
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Since everything you read on the Internet is true, I’m taking Dawn French’s teasing of something special from the creators of The Vicar of Dibley this season to the bank. Ok, fine, I can only find one mention of the absolutely brilliant news reportedly dropped recently by French, who plays Dibley’s vicar, Geraldine Granger, but I’m taking that as meaning ‘there is a chance’ that this possibility could be worth the paper it was printed on.
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Five years ago, I was introduced to a phenomenon known as Gogglebox. The world has not been the same since. Every so often, along comes a television series that simply defies logic. Realizing that at even 5 years ago I was a day late and a dollar short when it came to hearing about this series, I am […]
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A ‘memory’ popped up recently on my iPhone reminding me that I was in Port Isaac a little over a year ago. With everything that has happened during 2020, it seems like a lifetime ago that we were in the land of Doc Martin. On the way to Port Isaac that morning, we watched a relatively […]
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BBC’s recent revival of a late 80s masterpiece, Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads monologue series complete with a line-up of stars that reads like a who’s who of the British acting world, was not only a ‘masterpiece’ but it’s getting ready to ‘be a masterpiece’, as in PBS’s Masterpiece in 2021. The reboot of the masterful series of […]
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Maggie Cole is in trouble with a capital “T”. And, the day started out so well, too! It was a day like any other day. Then came a seemingly innocent interview on the radio by the local paper about local life where she, unfortunately, took no prisoners. It doesn’t help that the interview takes place […]
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The upsides to having a number of our favorite British drama staples on PBS such as Endeavour, Grantchester, Call the Midwife and Unforgotten be forced to delay production on their respective new series premieres for several months due to the UK filming shutdown are few and far between. One such upside is that it gives both PBS and your […]
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Not that I’m looking for a reason to jettison 2020 into the ether, but PBS’s Masterpiece series has given us hope that 2021 will get off to a brilliant start. The series’ 50th anniversary line-up for January 2021 was unveiled yesterday and it is proof positive just how and why this series has remained at the top […]
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It’s amazing how just three words can make one happy these days as long as they are the right three words and in the right order. ‘Grantchester is back’ doesn’t quite erase all that 2020 has unleashed on Planet Earth but it does give us something to look forward to in the coming months. Filming is underway in Cambridgeshire, Hampshire […]
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With chances of a third series consistently hovering between zero and none, it looks like creator/writer Sally Wainwright (Scott and Bailey, Last Tango in Halifax, Gentleman Jack) is ready to return to Happy Valley after a four-year hiatus. Wainwright has continued to skate rumors about a third series since the show ended back in 2016 given commitments […]
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