Prior to his brilliant effort as Jean Valjean in the BBC/PBS adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and after his equally brilliant role as Detective Jimmy McNulty in The Wire, Dominic West starred in The Hour.
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The former Doctor Who star also admitted she doesn’t really know if she’ll still be playing the role as the Queen ages.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar, who stars as DI Sunny Khan in the popular British crime drama series ‘Unforgotten,’ has early acting roots in comedy that date back to the late ’90s series ‘Goodness Gracious Me,’ a sketch comedy series starring four British Indian actors.
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What well-known British actor appeared in one episode of the greatest British comedy of all-time (Fawlty Towers) AND played a returning character in Downton Abbey?
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The Kodak moment of Quarmby’s appearance on the classic British comedy, Fawlty Towers, occurs as Manuel (Andrew Sachs) frantically searches the dining room for Basil, his pet ‘Siberian hamster’, and Polly (Connie Booth) offers the unsuspecting Mr. Carnegie a biscuit only to be confronted by the four-legged Basil hiding in the biscuit tin.
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For one brief moment in time, Idris Elba brought back memories of a time when SNL was so good you didn’t go out until it was over.
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As BBC One faded to black following the final episode of season 8 last Thursday, word came down from Britain’s public broadcaster that the popular crime comedy/drama/mystery series has been commissioned for an additional two seasons.
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Keeley Hawes finds herself on the receiving end of MI5 spying this time around in the new Stephen Poliakoff (Close to the Enemy, Dancing on the Edge) semi-autobiographical drama.
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In the ’60s, it was standard practice for the BBC to record over or discard tapes of programs. Among the casualties were three “lost” episodes of ‘Dad’s Army.’ The three episodes will be remade as part of “Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes” with Timothy West joining the cast.
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British actress Olivia Colman seemed genuinely gobsmacked at the thought she had just won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Queen Anne in ‘The Favourite.’
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