• CBS' Elementary to add Mycroft to the mix for season two

    CBS' Elementary to add Mycroft to the mix for season two

    In the case of CBS’ Elementary series, starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, I’m really going to have to get past my BBC/PBS Sherlock blinders and give it another chance this Fall when season 2 premieres on 26 September with a SkyLiving premiere approximately two weeks later. When all is said and done, it […]

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  • Going behind-the-scenes with 'Call the Midwife'; Nonnatus House sold

    Going behind-the-scenes with 'Call the Midwife'; Nonnatus House sold

    There are times you definitely don’t want to know how the sausage is made. Going behind-the-scenes with the BBC’s most popular drama series, Call the Midwife, starring Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Cliff Parisi, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris and Judy Parfitt, however, is definitely not one of those times. While hitting on all the right cylinders […]

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  • DCI Banks set to return in 2014 with filming to begin next month

    DCI Banks set to return in 2014 with filming to begin next month

    When ITV recently announced that DCI Banks, starring Stephen Tomkinson, would return for a third season in 2014 on both ITV in the UK and on public television stations in the States, my first thought was that with the addition of George Gently, Endeavour, Inspector Lewis, Scott & Bailey, New Tricks and Foyle’s War, I’m […]

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  • Paul Giamatti to join Downton Abbey 4 just in time for Christmas

    Paul Giamatti to join Downton Abbey 4 just in time for Christmas

    Last year it was the announcement that Shirley MacLaine was joining the cast of Downton Abbey as Martha Levinson, Lady Cora’s outspoken mother. While her role was very limited for series 3, the interchange between her and the Dowager Countess was small-screen greatness. As has already been revealed, MacLaine will return for series 4 to […]

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  • Q&A with Babou Ceesay; DC Alex Gray in 'Inspector Lewis' on PBS

    Q&A with Babou Ceesay; DC Alex Gray in 'Inspector Lewis' on PBS

    British born actor, Babou Ceesay, is more than ready to take his seat in the Oxfordshire police car alongside Inspector Lewis, played by Kevin Whately. As DC Alex Gray, Ceesay picks up his police notebook beginning tonight in the second installment of the 6th series of Lewis.     Ceesay, who grew up in Gambia, […]

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  • PBS, ITV team up for 60's medical drama, 'Breathless'

    PBS, ITV team up for 60's medical drama, 'Breathless'

    ITV Studios and MASTERPIECE on PBS/WGBH have announced a co-production agreement for Breathless, a stylish and compelling 60’s medical drama series set in London. The six, one-hour episodes will star Jack Davenport (Smash, Pirates of the Caribbean, Coupling) as a brilliant surgeon who believes he can truly make a difference in womens’ lives. Breathless will […]

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  • Inspector Lewis set for final run at making Oxford safe

    Inspector Lewis set for final run at making Oxford safe

    Robert ‘Robbie’ Lewis was first introduced in 1987 as Detective Inspector Endeavour Morse’s sergeant during the iconic Inspector Morse series. Inspector Lewis, the spin-off series starring Kevin Whatley reprising his role, which premiered in 2006, had Lewis promoted to Detective Inspector Morse and paired with DS Hathaway.   Unfortunately, today is the day we all […]

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  • On the set of Mr. Selfridge 2

    On the set of Mr. Selfridge 2

    Overshadowed just a bit by that little series we know as Downton Abbey, Mr. Selfridge, starring Jeremy Piven and Katherine Kelly, which airs on ITV1 in the UK and PBS in the States as part of the Masterpiece series, will return in 2014 with 10 new episodes. Based upon the life of flamboyant American entrepreneur […]

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  • Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to open doors for sequel in 2014

    Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to open doors for sequel in 2014

    In 2011, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel followed a group of British retirees who decide to take their retirement to less the expensive and exotic India at the restored Marigold Hotel that has since fallen apart. With Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Dev Patel and Celia Imrie, the […]

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  • 'The Imitation Game' to possibly reunite 'Atonement' co-stars

    'The Imitation Game' to possibly reunite 'Atonement' co-stars

    In what will be a reunion of sorts of former Atonement co-stars, Keira Knightley is close to signing on to co-star in The Imitation Game, a film based on the life of ground-breaking mathematician and Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing. While Benedict Cumberbatch is all set to apply his on-screen brilliance to the role of Turing, […]

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