First it was Lead Balloon, now it’s Bad Move. Somehow, Jack Dee can easily make you feel like you don’t have a bad life after all. Nothing can compare to what he faces around every corner every minute of every day. Dee’s on-screen characters are a daily reminder that things could always be worse. In Bad Move, Dee’s […]
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THankPhoto courtesy: ITVIn addition to stopping for a moment to be eternally thankful for my much better half, Kim, our friends, long-time and first-time Tellyspotting readers, good health and our kitty, MiniBoots, no Thanksgiving would be complete without recognizing the contributions made by two classic British series for not only setting me on a lifelong path of […]
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When two-time Booker Prize-winning author, Hilary Mantel passed away in September 2022 at the all-too-young age of 70, she was consulting on the television adaptation of her most recent 2020 novel, “The Mirror and the Light”, which was the conclusion to her critically acclaimed Tudor trilogy. The writer’s first two books in the trilogy, “Wolf […]
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Adding to its long-standing practice of providing stellar drama choices on Sunday nights, PBS has added Funny Woman to line-up beginning January 7 at 10pET/9pCT following the return of new series of All Creatures Great and Small and Miss Scarlet and The Duke earlier that evening. Funny Woman follows Barbara Parker (Gemma Arterton), a small-town (Blackpool) beauty queen who decides to swap […]
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Unfortunately, it’s not a new series of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman but, for my money, it’s the next best thing as the brilliant Lucy Worsley will tackle the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and his literary creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an upcoming 3-part documentary. Doyle came to hate Holmes and killed him […]
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While it’s been far too long of a road for members of the All Creatures Great and Small Separation Anxiety Club since we last visited the Yorkshire Dales with the end of series 3, there is some welcome news on the horizon. Your wait is almost over as All Creatures Great and Small returns for the […]
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Fresh off a very successful premiere last weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Alice & Jack will find its American broadcast home in 2024 as part of Masterpiece on PBS. In collaboration with British broadcaster, Channel 4, Alice & Jack will star Academy Award®-nominated actress and producer Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie, Birdman) alongside actor, director and screenwriter Domhnall Gleeson (Brooklyn, The Revenant). […]
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From the time I was first introduced to the greatness of Nicola Walker in her role as DI Susan Taylor in Touching Evil (co-starring with Grantchester‘s Robson Green), followed by her time as Ruth Evershed in Spooks (MI5), guest roles in Luther, Being Human and Inside Men, then her more recent efforts in Scott & Bailey, Last Tango in Halifax, Unforgotten and The Split once again I’m convinced […]
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It was the year 2020 when, with 3 episodes remaining in the first series of World on Fire, welcome news came from PBS and the BBC that the then Helen Hunt-led British World War II drama had been commissioned for a second series. Originally designed as a multi-year drama that would look at World War II […]
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Beginning Sunday, September 3, things are definitely looking up in 2023-24 from a drama standpoint as Sinéad Keenan (Doctor Who, Being Human) joins Sanjeev Bhaskar (DI Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan) for the S5 premiere of Unforgotten on PBS. Keenan joins the team as DCI Jessica ‘Jessie’ James, following the tragic S4 finale and the death of DCI Cassie Stewart (Nicola Walker). Walker went on to star […]
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