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Posted February 22, 2019 -  No Comment

Happy belated 90th, Dame Patricia Routledge!

Thank you, Dame Patricia, for the lifetime of laughter you have given us over the years and the continued smiles that await us all in the years to come.

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Posted February 21, 2019 -  No Comment

Some of your favorite British dramas will cross over to the dark side in 2019

In the interest of trying to appeal to a wider audience, several of your favorite series will venture into the arena of darker storylines this year.

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Posted February 20, 2019 -  No Comment

Benedict Cumberbatch added to ‘Good Omens’ as the voice of Satan

He’ll square off against Frances McDormand as the voice of God in the long-anticipated adaptation of the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel.

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Posted February 19, 2019 -  No Comment

Syrian refugee comedy ‘Home’ a sweet surprise at BBC Showcase

‘Home’ is not only funny but will remind us all what the concept of home really means.

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Posted February 18, 2019 -  No Comment

More death in paradise as ‘The Mallorca Files’ screens at BBC Showcase 2019

‘The Mallorca Files’ shows, once again, that paradise isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, with more death than the law allows.

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Posted February 16, 2019 -  No Comment

‘Warren’ brings Martin Clunes’ career full circle with return to sitcom comedy

While there’s no phobia for blood this time around, Warren Thompson does find himself living in an area he doesn’t like, thinks the world is against him, always knows best and speaks his mind.

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Posted February 15, 2019 -  No Comment

Tellyspotting survives the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone on the way to BBC Showcase 2019

Crossing oceanic fracture zones is just one of the dangerous things Tellyspotting goes through to report on the best of BBC programming and bring it back to the States.

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Posted February 13, 2019 -  No Comment

A severed hand and a bag of body parts — must be the return of ‘Shetland’!

The island community of Shetland is once again rocked with the opening of season 5, this time with a brand-new case involving a severed hand and a bag of body parts found by a lone jogger on the beach.

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Posted February 12, 2019 -  No Comment

North Norfolk’s finest returns to BBC One in ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’

His ’90s chat show was abruptly canceled after fatally shooting a guest on-air. He shunned the dated concept of television to become the host of North Norfolk’s digital web series ‘Mid Morning Matters.’ Now, Alan Partridge returns for the temporary gig of a lifetime as the stand-in co-host of an evening weekday magazine show.

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Posted February 10, 2019 -  No Comment

Red Nose Day 2019 to reunite ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ cast — for a fifth wedding

BBC One will be the place to be on Friday, March 15, as Red Nose Day will once again revive a Richard Curtis rom-com for charity.

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