Based on the hit Belgian series of the same name, Professor T has begun filming on location in Belgium and Cambridge. Starring Death in Paradise’s Ben Miller ((Death in Paradise, Worst Week of My Life) as criminology professor Jasper Tempest – an “eccentric but brilliant” academic, suffering with OCD and has a tortured past. Frances de la […]
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Just when you think nothing else can possibly go wrong in 2020, Europe is about to be hit by a massive solar flare causing widespread power blackouts and disrupting electronics. COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A), the room in which the government’s leading experts, senior politicians, and crisis contingency planners are forced to put their differences […]
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I would never forgive myself if I let today pass without wishing everyone in the land of Tellyspotting a Happy National Bunny Day! Highlighting the value and contributions that pet rabbits bring to their owners and held on the fourth Saturday or Sunday each September, National Bunny Day also centers on the welfare of rabbits — while […]
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Unfortunately, for most of 2020, days seem to run together and it seems more like Groundhog Day with each day pretty much like the previous one and where weekends are a thing of the past. Full disclosure – I was so psyched that Peter Davison was going to guest star on the upcoming Call the Midwife […]
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As the Call the Midwife Holiday Special resumed filming last month, creator Heidi Thomas was understandably excited at not only being able to get the CTM family back together but also had some equally as exciting news about the traditional holiday special. The Circus roles into Poplar with former Doctor Who star Peter Davison, who played the fifth incarnation of the Doctor between 1981 and 1984, taking the role of circus ringmaster, Mr Percival.
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Based on the critically acclaimed 2014 novel by Jo Bloom and starring Rory Kinnear (No Time to Die, Count Arthur Strong, Penny Dreadful, The Imitation Game), Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan, Little Dorrit), Tom Varey (Game of Thrones) and Aggi O’Casey in her first television role, Ridley Road is headed to PBS as part of Masterpiece. The 4-part mini-series also stars Tracy-Ann Oberman (Friday Night Dinner), Samantha Spiro (Sex Education), and Tamzin Outhwaite (EastEnders, Red Cap, The Fixer, New Tricks).
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Taking a page out of the Mark Twain playback when describing the reports of his death as being greatly exaggerated, the BBC has denied reports that long-running sitcom Still Open All Hours has been cancelled. A high-level BBC insider told the British Comedy Guide on Sunday that the cancellation story is “100% not true” but […]
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Unforgotten, starring the brilliant Nicola Walker (MI5, Last Tango in Halifax, Scott & Bailey) and the equally as brilliant Sanjeev Bhaskar (Goodness Gracious Me, Kumars at No. 42, Yesterday) in the lead roles as DCI Cassie Stuart and DS Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan, has become one of the mainstays of the PBS Masterpiece series line-up since its premiere […]
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On Saturday, as Planet Earth quietly celebrated the 45th anniversary of Fawlty Towers, series co-creator/co-writer John Cleese posed a question on Twitter to which the ability to come up with an answer is next to impossible, if not impossible. Easily the funniest comedy of all-time, the 12 episodes (yes, there were only 12) are wall-to-wall […]
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For today’s Friday Funny, we step into Mr. Peabody’s WABAC machine and set the dial for 1980. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 40 years since co-creators, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn wrote the unbelievably brilliant British comedy, Yes Minister, and that it is more relevant today than when it first originated. Long praised […]
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