• PBS’ Arthur heads to ‘Fountain Abbey’ on Jan 26

    PBS’ Arthur heads to ‘Fountain Abbey’ on Jan 26

    I know, we’ve written (and, probably, overwritten) how you can tell when a series such as Downton Abbey instantly becomes a part of pop-culture. If it makes it to the mind palaces of such icons as Saturday Night Live  or Jimmy Fallon, whose Downton Sixby spoofs were priceless, then you know you have something. With […]

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  • Tea Pong & Havarti cheese; Must be time for ‘Downton Abbey’!

    Tea Pong & Havarti cheese; Must be time for ‘Downton Abbey’!

    For those that thought Downton Abbey was only for the 50-somethings and over Anglophile, think again. There’s a new audience demo in town and they are putting aside their traditional beer pong red Solo cups every Sunday evening for a bit of Havarti cheese, a proper cup of tea and a heavy dose of their favorite English […]

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  • ‘Doctor Who’ theme as performed by an all-Robot Orchestra

    ‘Doctor Who’ theme as performed by an all-Robot Orchestra

    Leave it to CNET to find the perfect way for British telly fans to end 2014 and dive head first into 2015 with the Doctor Who theme performed by an all-robot orchestra! Well, almost all-robots….there are a few humans allowed in the band this year. As part of this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on […]

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  • Royal Mail to commemorate The Two Ronnies with new post stamp

    Royal Mail to commemorate The Two Ronnies with new post stamp

    In the age of more and more communication via texts, email and FaceTime, the archaic practice of sending snail mail may just get a bit more fun beginning 1 April 2015. Royal Mail has just released the first images of a new set of stamps celebrating Britain’s comedy greats, including The Two Ronnies, Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie […]

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  • ‘Eh-Oh’…Teletubbies ‘baby in the sun’ reveals herself

    ‘Eh-Oh’…Teletubbies ‘baby in the sun’ reveals herself

    From all of us at Tellyspotting, we wish you and yours a safe and very happy Christmas today. As the sun rises on another Christmas, we thought we’d bring you news surrounding another fairly famous sunrise… Over the hills and far away, Teletubbies come to play …. It was at that point in Teletubbies that the sun […]

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  • Martha Stewart’s Gingerbread Abbey is just in time for the holidays!

    Martha Stewart’s Gingerbread Abbey is just in time for the holidays!

    Leave it to the creative brilliance of Martha Stewart to make a bit of holiday greatness out of the most highly-anticipated television series premiere of 2015. Thankfully, that premiere is only 4 days into the new year so there’s not long to wait! Martha Stewart and her team have created a “Gingerbread Abbey”—a stunning likeness […]

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  • Dueling Christmas adverts jumpstart the UK holiday buying season

    Dueling Christmas adverts jumpstart the UK holiday buying season

    Holidays are filled with endless memories of Christmas’ past. Interestingly, for a generation of telly viewers, some of the most nostalgic memories are triggered by classic American commercials such as the unforgettable “Peter Comes Home” mid-80’s commercial for Folgers Coffee, the late 70’s Santa coming down a ski slope on a Norelco shaver and the 1970’s […]

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  • Time to channel your inner Patrick Swayze for Britain’s Best Potter

    Time to channel your inner Patrick Swayze for Britain’s Best Potter

    Imagine you create and produce reality television and you strike gold with one of your ideas. How do you even begin to top yourself and find the next bright and shiny thing? It’s simple if you’re Love Productions, creators of the wildly successful reality series, The Great British Bake-Off. Fresh off last weeks brilliant announcement that Bake-Off […]

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  • UK’s ‘The Great British Bake Off’ headed to PBS!

    UK’s ‘The Great British Bake Off’ headed to PBS!

    Now that #DowntonDay2015 is knocking at our front door, what better way to begin your Sunday evening appointment television viewing this Winter than with a dose of the BAFTA award-winning British television baking competition, The Great British Bake Off, as your lead-in to the return of Downton Abbey. Officially to be re-titled The Great British […]

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