Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) returns as Miss Eliza Scarlet, Victorian London’s first ever female detective, for a fifth season of investigations beginning Sunday, January 12 as part of the Masterpiece series on PBS. Retitled as Miss Scarlet as Stuart Martin (Jamestown), who played Scotland Yard detective William “The Duke” Wellington in the previous four seasons, will […]
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It’s repetitive…it’s predictable…yet it continues to be brilliantly funny every year and it’s worthy of an annual mention on Tellyspotting every New Years Eve. On the surface, Dinner for One is a short British cabaret sketch from the 1920s that has become a German New Year’s tradition. Whether or not you understand the cultural significance of this, […]
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Leave it to the great folks at PBS Masterpiece to start the long-awaited countdown to the series 5 premiere of All Creatures Great and Small with such brilliance. Here, courtesy of our friends at PBS Masterpiece, Nicholas Ralph puts costar Callum Woodhouse to the ultimate test with a pop quiz about what happened in Season […]
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Following the tradition that began in 1932 by her father, King George V, Her Majesty The Queen broadcast her inaugural Christmas message live on the radio from her study at Sandringham, Norfolk in 1952. The Queen began: “Each Christmas, at this time, my beloved father broadcast a message to his people in all parts of […]
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Much like watching It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Story, Tuna Christmas or, as evidenced by a long-standing admission, Die Hard, one of my annual Christmas traditions is to listen to John Cleese’s adaptation of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas from podcast No. 28. Never mind that there have been endless readings over the years by the likes […]
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Set in 1969 and airing Christmas Day at 7pCT/8pET on PBS (and BBC1), the 2024 Call the Midwife Christmas Special will see a lot of familiar faces returning to Poplar (sadly, still no Chummy) for a special 2-part episode this Christmas. While the Nonnatus House midwives are busy delivering babies and doing the job they […]
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The list of our best drama-based Tellyspotting Q&As reveal especially intriguing behind-the-scenes insight into two fan favorites in particular: ‘Sanditon’ and ‘Victoria.’
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Monty Python (and Red Dwarf, and Yes Minister) fans – this particular roundup of Tellyspotting’s best Q&A interviews of all time is for you.
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Tellyspotting is 15 years old, so we’re sharing our 15 favorite interviews – five each in mystery, comedy and drama.
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While it’s not as sexy or current of a conversation as Brexit — although it is one that seemingly has no end these days — a hot matter of debate is whether or not the 1988 Bruce Willis film, Die Hard, is “the greatest Christmas story ever told.” To try and settle this worldwide argument […]
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