What does Martin Clunes do during his year off from filming Doc Martin? Work non-stop, of course. According to Radio Times, Clunes has signed on to play police officer Colin Sutton, the detective who caught the killer of Milly Dowler, the schoolgirl who was abducted and murdered in 2002. The 13-year-old English schoolgirl was reported missing by her […]
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With feuds, a marriage, intimations of mortality and the arrival of some fresh new characters, Poldark will hit the ground running when series 3 premieres on PBS beginning Sunday, October 1. UK audiences got a jump on the Warleggan feud when the series returned this past Summer on BBC1. There’s a bad moon rising over the Cornish coastline at […]
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Thankfully for non-residents of Portwenn, Dr. Martin Ellingham isn’t done insulting his patients just yet. Everyone’s favorite curmudgeonly village physician with an ill-timed phobia for blood is back for the next set of eight programs that will make up series 8 of Doc Martin. The new series returns Wednesday, 20 September at 9p on ITV with a broadcast on […]
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For those needing a brief Benedict Cumberbatch fix, the first trailer has been released for The Current War. The 19th century historical drama features Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison with Michael Shannon as inventor/industrialist George Westinghouse who find themselves locked in battle over a brand new discovery, with each wanting to take control of how it shapes the future. […]
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Diverting our attention a bit from Victoria, we have some exciting Poldark news to share. While series 3 is in the books already in the UK, American audiences are standing on the doorstep of the return of the popular British period drama which begins Sunday, October 1 on PBS….and that’s not even the exciting part! As we get […]
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With series 2 of Victoria premiering tonight on ITV in the UK, American fans of the series, unfortunately, will be in limbo for just over 5 months before we can turn the calendar page to January 14, 2018. Many of us will have to satisfy our collective Victoria separation anxiety with short video bits here and there when they […]
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When we last left the great Lord M, his ever-so-coy romance with the young Queen Victoria was resolved when she married Prince Albert, played by Tom Hughes, and Victoria (Jenna Coleman) had given birth to her first daughter. Given that Lord Melbourne is no longer Prime Minister by the start of series 2, it would be […]
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Life continues to only get better and better if you are an Endeavour fan. Unlike Downton Abbey, Crimson Field, Home Fires, Lewis, Wallander, Mr Selfridge and Indian Summers where there will be no more episodes produced, Endeavour just keeps chugging along like ‘the little engine that could’ with the fourth series returning to PBS’ Masterpiece beginning tonight at 9pET/8pCT. The fourth series of the Oxford-set Inspector Morse prequel series starring Shaun […]
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The more than 16.2 million viewers that tuned in for the premiere season of Victoria have been waiting since last March for word as to when we’d find out how a young Queen Victoria would handle motherhood, monarchy and marriage. Well, Victoria-Nation, the wait is over as PBS announced earlier this week that series 2 will return on […]
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Remember when you HAD to read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in high school? I’m guessing a number of you have re-read it several times as an adult because you actually WANTED to. Whatever the case, it’s probably been awhile since read it or seen one of the numerous big or small screen adaptations. Well, now you […]
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