While the world waits patiently (ha!) for the return of Downton Abbey, the LA Times’ Glenn Whipp caught up with Michelle Dockery on the set where they are filming the upcoming fourth series to talk about what’s in store for Lady Mary now that Matthew is, sadly, out of the picture. As you’ll see, […]
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While it’s definitely a bit of a polar opposite from the recent Mr. Selfridge episode and the quandary that Harry Gordon Selfridge found himself in when his largest benefactor wanted to hold a women’s suffrage meeting at the store, the goal of BBC 4’s Up the Women is to poke a bit of fun at […]
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Perhaps the coolest show on the planet is BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, which premiered on BBC radio in 1942. Created by Roy Plomley, the format is about as simple as you can get. A guest ‘castaway’ is invited to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island. In […]
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As most UK readers are acutely (and sadly) aware, David Tennant playing Richard II is one of the hottest tickets in town with every performance of the new Shakespeare production sold out. That’s the bad news. Not to worry, there’s good news to follow… The most recent production of Richard II, which was announced back […]
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It is with extreme sadness, that we must admit we missed Saturday’s National Towel Day. While we can’t do anything about our egregious error with National Towel Day, which annually celebrates the greatness of Douglas Adams and, of course, the towel, which any good hitchhiker knows is “the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker […]
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Another Sunday, another brilliant Case Histories broadcast on BBC One with an equally as brilliant soundtrack. I’m feeling a bit like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. Last nights episode, “Nobody’s Darling”, saw Jackson Brodie (Jason Isaacs) encountering a grieving mother who is convinced that her daughter’s riding accident was murder. As with episode one, this […]
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It is abundantly clear that the same importance of music has been placed on series 2 as it was in series 1.
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Along with my earlier revelation that Mad Dogs was a guilty telly pleasure, I might as well come clean and admit that now in the same category is Orphan Black. Thankfully, the announcement that the BBC America series has been renewed for a second series comes just prior to the conspiracy clone thriller’s series 1 […]
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It’s been awhile since we’ve mentioned the series that cannot be named when on hiatus. You know, the series that has now been officially tagged as the highest rated PBS drama of all-time and the network’s most-watched series in more than 20 years. Admittedly, Downton Abbey 3 has been in our collective rear view mirror’s […]
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Whether it was 1911, when the expression “Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words” appeared in a newspaper article quoting newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane discussing journalism and publicity, a similar phrase in 1913 “One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words” that appeared in a newspaper advertisement for […]
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