When All Creatures Great and Small returns to Channel 5 in the UK and PBS in America for a second series, there will be a few new faces among the regulars that will inhabit 1930s Yorkshire. Nicholas Ralph will reprise his role as young country vet James Herriot with Samuel West (Mr. Selfridge, On Chesil Beach) returning as James’ […]
At long last, it appears that even the reality of a coronavirus pandemic won’t sideline the bike riding midwives of Nonnatus House as the BBC has confirmed the premiere date Call the Midwife S10 as Sunday, April 18 on BBC1. While this is certainly delightful news for fans in the UK that have been waiting since the […]
The New York Knicks have Spike Lee, the Los Angeles Lakers may have Jack Nicholson, even Everton FC can count Dame Judi Dench among their ‘avid-Blue’ fan base. Now, the NBA’s Utah Jazz can count on none other than John Cleese, one of the original founding members of the Monty Python troupe, to be one of their most ardent fans. Even though he has never seen a game live, Cleese has remained a Jazz fan for more than two decades.
As Planet Earth gingerly begins entering a tiered post-COVID era, movie theaters are beginning to open up which means films will begin to be released where they were meant to be, as in on the big screen rather than the endless number streaming options now available to us all. One such film worth our collective time is Six Minutes to Midnight starring Eddie Izzard and Dame Judi Dench. As Deadline says, COVID or no-COVID, more films with Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench is something that the world needs.
Based on the World War II relationship of Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd President of the United States) and Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha, Atlantic Crossing tells the riveting and relatively unknown true story of Crown Princess Märtha, who became an influential figure in world politics during World War II, after Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940. In advance of Sunday's premiere, Tellyspotting had the great good fortune to sit down with Alexander Eik, Norwegian film and TV series Director and creator and co-writer/co-director of Atlantic Crossing, to fully get a sense as to what it took to bring this series from an idea in the mind palace of Eik to the premiere on PBS as part of the Masterpiece series.
