Popular Father Brown character Sister Boniface will be getting her own spin-off series following the announcement that BritBox North America has commissioned a drama based on the character who first appeared in episode 6 of series 1 of Father Brown, “The Bride of Christ”. The initial 10-part series has been created and written by Jude Tindall (Father […]
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Unfortunately, I’m not sure the owners of the Oakley Court Luxury Hotel in Bray, England can guarantee there is anything on the slab to see (if you come up to the lab, that is) or that you’ll learn to do the Time Warp but you can now stay in the old English manor where a number […]
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Derek Fowlds, best known for starring in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, has died at the age of 82. Long-time public television audiences in America will remember Fowlds for playing the private secretary Bernard Woolley in the iconic BBC sitcoms opposite Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington.
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Miss Fisher & The Crypt of Tears, the film version of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries starring Essie Davis as the Hon. Phryne Fisher will make it’s way to theaters in Australia and New Zealand in the coming weeks with a North America release not long after. Hopefully, it will soon find a home on public television stations across America in the not-too-distant future.
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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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Say what you will about Twitter these days but, in many cases, a innocent tweet can spread so much joy across the television landscape with a mere hint of something to come. Case in point is this simple tweet from PBS’ Masterpiece series regarding a brilliant addition to the Spring 2020 line-up. MASTERPIECE Mystery! is […]
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While public television fans of the ‘little engine that could’ British mystery series, Midsomer Murders, are getting set for the series 16 premiere within the next couple of months (March 2020 to be exact), UK viewers are settling in for the ITV’s series 21 premiere at 8p on the 21st of January. In the era […]
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Following up on their dominance of last year’s Academy Awards, British film and television stars continued their takeover of American media on Sunday evening by capturing approximately 40% of the overall awards handed out over the course of the evening. Olivia Colman (The Crown), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and Sam Mendes (1917) were among those honored for their […]
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Rowan Atkinson, English actor, comedian, and screenwriter turns 65 today. While best known to audiences worldwide for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean and, more recently, for his stellar performance in Maigret, I first stumbled upon Atkinson’s brilliant talent in the BBC2 sketch comedy series, Not the Nine O’Clock News.
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Known throughout the world as the creator of the much loved fictional detectives Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth, author Marion Chesney Gibbons, a.k.a. MC Beaton, died Monday at the age of 83 after a short illness.
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