Two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson (Women In Love, A Touch of Class) will star in BBC One’s adaptation of Emma Healey’s best-selling novel Elizabeth Is Missing, marking her return to the small screen after over 25 years.
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English actor, television presenter, writer and comedian Michael Palin is now, going forward, Sir Michael Palin. Palin, who turned 76 on May 5, was knighted by Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, at Buckingham Palace in the New Year Honours.
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Next up in the long line of British period dramas coming to PBS in 2020 will be Beecham House.
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Listen very carefully…I will say this only once! The surviving cast of ‘Allo ‘Allo will reunite to unveil a British Comedy Society commemorative blue plaque at Lynford Hall in Northfolk, the country house which stood in for Cafe René.
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From Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin to Ben Parkinson in Butterflies to Lionel Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, Geoffrey Palmer has been a constant fixture in our collective British comedy lives for the better part of four decades with these three series alone.
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Mark Twain once said that “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” While he was talking about the rumors of his own demise, he could have just as easily been thinking ahead about the BBC drama series, Last Tango in Halifax, which seemed to come to an unofficial end following its last broadcast in December 2016.
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It’s been awhile since April 2015 when American audiences were introduced to the brilliant Wolf Hall on PBS. With author Hilary Mantel’s final chapter of the trilogy hitting the shelves in March 2020, the BBC has confirmed Wolf Hall 2 is in the works.
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There are those times in the world of television comedy and drama that when you hear about a reunion show, a re-boot or a spin-off that you immediately question why or what’s the point. James Corden’s recent announcement that the hit British comedy series, Gavin and Stacey, will return this Christmas for a one-off special is definitely NOT one of those times.
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There are certain subjects when someone mentions never before seen footage, my first thought is that’s not possible. Usually it centers around World War II, the forthcoming 50th anniversary of the moon landing or the Beatles. I think, however, I can pretty much say for certain that if someone mentioned that ‘never-before-see-footage’ of Queen Victoria […]
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“A towel, The Guide says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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