I’m now fully convinced that if you looked up the definition of brilliant in the dictionary, there would simply be a photo of Dame Judi Dench. Turning 83 years young today, the Oscar/Tony/BAFTA/Laurence Olivier/Golden Globe/Screen Actors Guild award winner is embarking on a new chapter in her life. Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees, airing […]
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Almost three decades ago, American public television audiences were introduced to Richard and Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced “Bouquet”). With her white slimline telephone with automatic redial, of course, and her prized collection of Royal Doulton china with hand-painted periwinkles, of course, Hyacinth longed to spend her days visiting stately homes on the oft chance she would […]
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The Tunnel, Kudos’ brilliant Anglo-French adaptation of the Scandinavian drama, The Bridge, will be back next month for a third and final series next month. The Tunnel: Vengeance is headed to Sky Atlantic with all 14 episodes for watching beginning December 14. Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy will be back as DCI Karl Roebuck and French Commander Elise Wasserman, respectively, […]
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Once again, British comedy fans will have a very special present to unwrap under the tree this Christmas courtesy of the BBC. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders will reunite for a 30th anniversary special set to broadcast on Christmas Day on BBC1. The duo last teamed up for a sketch show to mark their 20th anniversary […]
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Five years after the fact, Dan Stevens finds himself still apologizing for his Christmas Day 2012 exit from Downton Abbey, the most popular British period drama known to mankind. In a recent interview with The Guardian leading up to his starring role in the current film, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Stevens was asked who he would most […]
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Following her time as a con artist in Good Behavior, Michelle Dockery seems to be getting pretty skilled at putting her six series stint as Lady Mary Crawley on Downton Abbey in the rear-view mirror. This time, in Steven Soderbergh’s Godless, which is now available on Netflix, Dockery plays Alice Fletcher, a hardened, gun-toting widow in the critically-acclaimed Steven Soderbergh/Scott […]
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At long last, Doctor #1 and Doctor #12 team up in the 2017 Doctor Who Christmas Special, “Twice Upon a Time”, Peter Capaldi’s final adventure as the Twelfth Doctor. Doctor’s #1 and #12 will be joined by the return of Pearl Mackie, a.k.a. Bill, not ‘CyberBill’, and Mark Gatiss as a World War I soldier known as […]
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While the news that June Whitfield had officially become a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honors List at Buckingham Palace must have driven Pats and Eddy to drink even earlier in the day, there couldn’t be a more deserving individual to receive such an honor. Best known for her role […]
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If you can get to the UK for only one day, Friday, 17 November may be the day to head out. This year’s Children in Need broadcast will feature an exclusive look at the Doctor Who Christmas special, the episode that features Peter Capaldi’s last appearance before he regenerates into the series’ first female Timelord Jodie […]
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Ever since the 2005 revival of Doctor Who when Christopher Eccleston took the keys to the TARDIS as the 9th incarnation of The Doctor, I have followed with great interest how time pretty much stops like in The Day The Earth Stood Still when a new Doctor or companion is announced. I’m sure it was similar with Doctors […]
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