• How can you NOT love Peter Capaldi as…The Doctor!

    How can you NOT love Peter Capaldi as…The Doctor!

    When it was originally announced that Peter Capaldi would become the Twelfth Doctor taking over for Matt Smith in 2014, there were those that raised more than a few eyebrows. Many of those who wondered whether or not this was the right choice only knew Capaldi from his more recent roles in either The Hour […]

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  • What lies ahead for ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Downton Abbey’?

    What lies ahead for ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Downton Abbey’?

    Now that we are post-Downton Abbey, fans of Sherlock finally have some company for their mutual separation anxiety meetings. From an American perspective, we’re looking at approximately nine months before they both return to our collective lives. With Sherlock looking at an early 2016 return for their fourth series (not counting the proposed Christmas ‘special’ that will take Sherlock […]

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  • More new ‘old dogs’ added to final trip around the sun for ‘New Tricks’

    More new ‘old dogs’ added to final trip around the sun for ‘New Tricks’

    As reported several weeks ago on Tellyspotting. following the conclusion of the forthcoming series of the long-running BBC police procedural, New Tricks, the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) of the Metropolitan Police Service will have solved its final case when the series calls it quits after 12 years and 107 episodes. The past […]

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  • It’s official! ‘Downton Abbey’ will cease-to-be after series 6.

    It’s official! ‘Downton Abbey’ will cease-to-be after series 6.

    Before you read any further…remember, there’s no crying in baseball and there will be no crying today across Downton Abbey-Nation. Unfortunately, what you have probably read recently in supermarket tabloids is now official. PBS, ITV and Carnival Films have confirmed that the forthcoming series of Downton Abbey, series 6, will be the last for what […]

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  • Behind the scenes with ‘Inspector George Gently’

    Behind the scenes with ‘Inspector George Gently’

    Starring Martin Shaw (Judge John Deed) as Gently and Lee Ingleby (Our Zoo) as DS John Bacchus, Inspector George Gently, the period crime drama, will return in 2015 with four new feature-length films set in 1969. Lisa McGrillis (Hebburn) also returns as WPC Rachel Coles. At this point, word out of the UK is that Inspector George […]

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  • The doors of ‘Mr. Selfridge’ to remain open for a 4th series!

    The doors of ‘Mr. Selfridge’ to remain open for a 4th series!

    With American audiences ever so close to the return of Mr. Selfridge for the third series as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series, ITV has announced that the series will return for a fourth season in 2016! Ten new episodes have been commissioned with Jeremy Piven returning as the colorful but deeply troubled Harry Gordon Selfridge […]

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