• BBC's Bush House – the ultimate eBay auction item?

    BBC's Bush House – the ultimate eBay auction item?

    While the BBC’s foreign language broadcasting service had it’s beginning in 1938 from Broadcasting House in Portland Place, that building was bombed during the Second World War and the service re-located to Bush House in 1941. Now, it returns to where it all began, Broadcasting House with the rest of the BBC News division. The […]

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  • Its all Downton Abbey 3 during PBS day at TCA

    Its all Downton Abbey 3 during PBS day at TCA

    Whether you are new to the series and refer to it as Downton Abbey or you’ve been there from day 1 and simply refer to it as just Downton when you knowingly pass fellow series lovers on the streets, you probably have a countdown calendar on the wall with either September circled if in the […]

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  • Sherlock Masterclass at Edinburgh, August 24

    Sherlock Masterclass at Edinburgh, August 24

    With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee done and as the 2012 London Olympics winds down early August, you might be thinking can there be anything else this Summer that warrants my attention. Think no more. If you’re in the television industry, just go ahead and book your flight, hotel and get tickets now as Edinburgh will […]

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  • Inspector Lewis; Tonight's PBS 'Masterpiece'

    Inspector Lewis; Tonight's PBS 'Masterpiece'

    A little extra something must be in the water over at the PBS Masterpiece world control center. Consider for a minute that, just this past year, the series has showcased the likes of Downton Abbey, Great Expectations, Birdsong, Upstairs Downstairs, Case Histories, Page Eight, Endeavor and Inspector Lewis. It just keeps getting better and better […]

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  • Benedict Cumberbatch on the Simpsons – Doh!

    Benedict Cumberbatch on the Simpsons – Doh!

    The greatness of The Simpsons have finally jumped on the Benedict Cumberbatch bandwagon. Seems as though the actor, known forever to all of us as the ultimate consulting detective, Sherlock landed a voice role in the animated sitcom following a chance meeting, reported In Style magazine. “I was at a meeting in the same place […]

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  • Dame Diana Rigg cast in upcoming episode of Doctor Who

    Dame Diana Rigg cast in upcoming episode of Doctor Who

    Diana Rigg, the hands down winner of a recent BBC America poll that set out to identify the Sexiest Female British Celebrity of Yesteryear has been cast in an upcoming episode of Doctor Who. Rigg became well-known to a worldwide television viewing audience of 1960’s teenagers as Emma Peel, one of the first ‘feminist heroines […]

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  • Post Red Dwarf it's Death in Paradise for the Cat

    Post Red Dwarf it's Death in Paradise for the Cat

    What does one do if, in a previous life, you were a humanoid lifeform living on a mining spaceship owned and operated by the Jupiter Mining Corporation and you had evolved from the descendants of a pregnant pet cat named Frankenstein? Oh, and you are vain, aloof, and love to dress in extravagant clothing? Easy. […]

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  • More than duck's off at this Fawlty Towers Motel

    More than duck's off at this Fawlty Towers Motel

    Sometimes you just find things that you can’t help but share like this from The Huffington Post… Fawlty Towers Motel Becomes Naked Resort To Bolster Bottom Line When times get tough, the tough get naked. At least that’s what a Florida motel owner hopes, as he turns his 32-room property into a potential magnet for […]

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  • Sweden's Loreen nabs top Eurovision 2012 honors

    Sweden's Loreen nabs top Eurovision 2012 honors

    Loreen has triumphed for Sweden at the 57th Eurovision Song Contest, with her club track Euphoria. According to the BBC, the former Swedish Idol contestant led from early on in the voting and ended with 372 points, with Russia’s Buranovo Grannies finishing at distant second with 259 points. Host Azerbaijan finished fourth with 150 points. […]

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  • A trip to St. Barts and the scene of the Sherlock finale

    A trip to St. Barts and the scene of the Sherlock finale

    Still reeling from last night’s Sherlock? If you were anywhere near the telly last night in America for the season finale of Sherlock “The Reichenbach Fall”, you are probably quite tired and drained this morning from what has to have been the best 90-minutes of television and, the most moving final scene, in recent memory. […]

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