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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Even though it’s highly doubful that one of the best restaurants in Australia get its name from Hyacinth Bucket’s description of her sister Violet’s successful lifestyle, it is fun to think that the owners of Room for a Pony in North Hobart are long-time fans of the classic British comedy, Keeping Up Appearances. Unlike Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream out of […]
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 40 years since co-creators, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn wrote the unbelievably brilliant British comedy, Yes Minister, and that it is more relevant today than when it first originated. Long praised for being accurate as well as funny, Lynn and Jay created brilliance out of a simple […]
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Mollie Sugden would have been 101 this past Friday. We, at Tellyspotting, wish her the best heavenly birthday, albeit a bit belated. For almost thirty years, Mollie Sugden brought smiles and outright laughter to not only the North Texas area, but to the world, as Mrs. Slocombe on Are You Being Served. One can’t help […]
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With a Christmas special and a 13th series on the horizon, Call the Midwife will be adding two new faces as Renee Bailey and Natalie Quarry join the cast as student midwives and roommates, Joyce and Rosalind when the series returns in 2024. Renee Bailey (Mood, Rebel Cheer Squad, Get Millie Black) plays Joyce Highland, a Trinidadian pupil […]
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Veep and The Thick of It creator, Armando Iannucci, will collaborate with Olivier award-winning actor Sean Foley on the first authorized adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 apocalyptic comedy, Dr. Strangelove, which starred Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, tells the story of a rogue US general who triggers a nuclear crisis and puts the world on the verge of catastrophe when he orders an attack on the Soviet Union.
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Heads up ‘PBS fans of Grantchester‘, significant spoilers ahead as we look ahead to series 9 while in the middle of series 8 airing as part of Masterpiece on PBS. Usually the good new outweighs the bad when it comes to a confirmation of a next series starting to film while the current series hasn’t even finished broadcasting […]
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Over the last couple of decades, the British culinary scene risen like the sun over the English Channel. The Fat Duck in Bray, county of Berkshire, was named the best restaurant in the UK and the second best restaurant in the world in 2008. (FYI, their 2009 food issues have been resolved and they’ve returned […]
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Normally the line forms to the left for those interested in a guest role on Death in Paradise with most in line hoping they’re witnesses and not the victim or ‘person of interest’. Recent news out of the DIP camp reveals this year will be no different as Oscar-winning actress Hayley Mills recently revealed that she had enjoyed a trip to Guadeloupe and cryticly including #deathinparadise and adding, “In Paradise with @ralf.little who is very nice and an ex footballer!”
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Known for his brilliant command of the English language, who better to address America on this Fourth of July holiday and the question “What if the British won?” than Stephen Merchant, the man whom Ricky Gervais so eloquently likened to both a ‘stick insect with glasses’ and an ‘upright lizard being given electro-shock treatment’.
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