When All Creatures Great and Small returns to Channel 5 in the UK and PBS in America for a second series, there will be a few new faces among the regulars that will inhabit 1930s Yorkshire. Nicholas Ralph will reprise his role as young country vet James Herriot with Samuel West (Mr. Selfridge, On Chesil Beach) returning as James’ […]
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Mackenzie Crook, the writer, director and star behind the brilliant metal-detecting sitcom The Detectorists, is beginning to hint that there may be one last sweep of the English countryside in his mind palace which might warrant getting the band back together in the not-too-distant future. The series, which finished after three series in 2017, was not only […]
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Sadly, Dame Diana Rigg has passed away at the age of 82. While an entire generation may only know her from HBO’s Game of Thrones and, possibly, PBS’ Victoria, much of the world will no doubt remember the acting legend from her time on The Avengers alongside Patrick McNee as secret agent Emma Peel or in the James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, where she holds the distinction of being only woman to have ever married James Bond, or from her time serving as the host of the PBS series, Mystery, from 1989 to 2003.
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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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Denis Lawson, best known the world over for his impressive array of roles, including the iconic X-Wing pilot Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars franchise, and as the mild-mannered Jarndyce in the BBC’s Charles Dickens adaptation Bleak House, has joined the cast of Victoria for series 2. Looking quite a bit different than his most […]
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As series one of what everyone hopes has already planted the flag as ‘the next Downton Abbey‘, Victoria, starring Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes, has begun filming on series 2. Thankfully, while U.S. viewers watching on PBS’ Masterpiece have only until Sunday, March 5 to wait until the S1 finale (followed by a newly produced Victoria After Party hosted by Jonathan […]
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