Time for one of my Howard Beale moments while pondering where the heck is Lewis Black when you need him. Reading the stories in a number of Sunday papers in the UK suggesting the government is about to impose much greater restrictions on when the BBC can schedule its favorite shows, one has to wonder about its priorities […]
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UPDATE: Meet Bill! The BBC has confirmed that Peter Capaldi’s new companion for the forthcoming 10th series will be unveiled at half time during the Manchester United v Everton FA Cup semi-final today, St. Georges Day. The identity of the successor to Jenna Coleman’s Clara Oswald has set the internet ablaze ever since it was […]
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ITV has announced that the current UK run of the fifth series of Scott & Bailey should now be referred to as the fifth and final series of the British police procedural. Series 5, which concludes on 27 April in the UK, will end a 5-year tension-filled run for Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp as members of the Syndicate Nine […]
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Book your flights to Manchester. The streets are once again safe! The crime-fighting duo of Janet Scott and Rachel Bailey are back on the job for a new series of Scott & Bailey. The new series will see Janet, Rachel and the Syndicate 9 Major Incident Team tackle one of the biggest and darkest cases they […]
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Armed with the thought that roughly 10 million people are going to be desperately searching for some quality British period drama to watch come January 2017, PBS has already planned out your Sunday nights television viewing when the mega-hit British period drama ’tis but a memory of January’s past. Jenna Coleman, who has spent the last several […]
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With the Downton Abbey body not even cold yet here in the U.S., the next project from the pen of writer/creator Sir Julian Fellowes is headed to ITV this coming Sunday night. Doctor Thorne is adapted from the Anthony Trollope novel of the same name and tells the story of the penniless Mary Thorne, the niece […]
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Chalk this up as yet another reason why UK telly is more than a cut above the rest of Planet Earth. Take for example, Sunday night. While a majority of the U.S. was trying to think of anything possible to watch other than the mindless red-carpet preview of the 88th Academy Awards, the BBC and […]
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With series 3 of Endeavour just around the corner as part of PBS’ Masterpiece Mystery! series this summer, ITV has confirmed that the series will go into production in late Spring 2016 and return for a fourth series. While this is welcome news for UK fans Endeavour Morse as ITV transmitted series 3 last month, it is brilliant news to American […]
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As American audiences (im)patiently await the premiere of the final series of Downton Abbey this coming Sunday on PBS, audiences in the UK will soon be aware of the fact that there is, indeed, ‘life after Downton‘, as series 4 of Mr. Selfridge re-opens its’ doors on Friday, 8 January at 9:00pm on ITV. For those in the […]
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Christmas is coming early, once again, as ITV has announced that Stephen Tompkinson will return in his role as DCI Alan Banks along with Andrea Lowe as DS Annie Cabbot and Caroline Catz, of Doc Martin fame, as DI Helen Morton when DCI Banks returns for a fifth series in 2016. Once again inspired by the books from acclaimed novelist […]
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