It’s that time of year when most members of the Downton Abbey Separation Anxiety Society is clambering for any sliver of information that might come from the set during filming for the forthcoming series. Who has been added to the cast for series 5?
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PBS viewers in America barely were able to see the fade to black following Sunday’s series 3 Call the Midwife finale before the news filtered out about cast additions for series 4, which is targeted for an early 2015 transmission in the UK and an early Spring 2015 return on PBS in America. Series 4 […]
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Co-creator/writer, Mark Gatiss, likened IT to ‘organizing a massive UN conference’. Maybe herding cats is a better analogy that we can all relate to. Could the “IT” he’s talking about be….Sherlock?
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This season’s Call the Midwife on PBS has been the best yet. Let’s just say tonight’s emotional series 3 roller coaster finale will not disappoint. However, it might just be a two box of tissues evening.
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How does Martin Clunes pass the time between the end of one Doc Martin series and the beginning of another? Elementary, my dear Watson.
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Full disclosure up front. I’ve never seen an episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Unfortunately, this goes in the stack of DVD boxed sets of series television gold such as Mad Men, Breaking Bad and West Wing that I have never seen in their entirety. Before you get up and leave the room, I have […]
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Much like death and taxes, the only thing that anyone can truly count on to happen these days is that right around this time of year, two months into filming of the new series marks that it’s open season on the annual Downton Abbey rumor mill. For the past four years, like clockwork, official production […]
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After seeing series 1 of Sally Wainwright’s Last Tango in Halifax, I’m convinced that if you looked up the words ‘family baggage’ in the dictionary, you’d see a cast photo. A stellar cast, btw. Headed up by Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid, Last Tango in Halifax also stars Sarah Lancashire and Nicola Walker star as […]
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Coming to a telly near you in 2015, the next PBS Masterpiece will have it all. Created and written by Paul Rutman (Vera), Indian Summers is filled with the stories of promises, secrets, politics, power, sex and love as the British Raj begins to falter, opening its eyes to the possibilities of freedom. Add in […]
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With so much attention being paid to recent drama greatness such as the Sunday night return of Vera and last nights premiere of Prey starring John Simm, we have been neglecting the strong comedy offerings that are on the horizon starting tonight on BBC One. Over to Bill – tonight on BBC One’s Comedy Playhouse […]
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