Two former downstairs residents of Downton Abbey have landed roles in upcoming productions over the next year. Fresh off spending time in Happy Valley, Siobhan Finneran, who you’ll recognize as Downton Abbey’s resident mean girl, O’Brien, in the first three seasons of Downton Abbey, joins the cast of The Damned which recently finished filming in Iceland. Described as a ‘tense […]
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After spending the better part of six+ series on Line of Duty dodging the possibility that, as Superintendent Ted Hastings, he was the ‘elusive H’, Adrian Dunbar plays a former police detective coaxed out of retirement to serve as a consultant on a complex murder case that has been plaguing a former protege in Ridley. Alex Ridley hasn’t been sitting […]
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Looking for a new ‘local’ leading up to this Saturday’s Coronation of King Charles III? Not to worry, the trusty blue and red supermarket will be opening a pop-up Tesco boozer to celebrate Chazza’s coronation. The limited-time pop-up on the site of The Castle pub in Farringdon, appropriately re-named The King in the Castle, will open for […]
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With filming set to begin this week on this years Call the Midwife Christmas special, Stephen McGann (Dr. Patrick Turner) joked recently with the press that he was certain the sun would come out to mark the occasion. “We literally start next week with Christmas again,” he said. “And I guarantee you, the sun will come out and […]
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Whether it was Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Later with Jools Holland, BBC Sessions, Ready Steady Go, From the Basement or something called Guitar Heroes at the BBC, the channel was home to some unbelievable musical performances in the 70’s. Commissioned by none other than Sir David Attenborough, who was actually the […]
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Let me just go ahead and start with the following observation and get it out of the way. There’s NO WAY Blackadder is 40 years old, is there? As the series ran from 1983-1989, 2023 marks the 40th anniversary of the Richard Curtis/Rowan Atkinson/Ben Elton series so, it must be so. To celebrate, UK’s Gold Channel […]
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Today, William Shakespeare would have been a mere 459 years old. While his true birthdate remains a mystery (he was baptized on April 26, 1564), it is generally celebrated on April 23, the same day England’s patron saint is celebrated with a laundry list of ‘happenings’, St. George’s Day. It was a mere 407 years ago […]
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Unfortunately, you won’t get a chance to down a few with Coach Lasso or his well-grounded, longtime assistant and friend, Coach Beard nor will you get to sing “Roy Kent, Roy Kent, he’s here, he’s there, he’s every-f***ing-where, Roy Kent, Roy Kent” with the AFC Richmond supporters from The Crown & Anchor, but up to 12 insanely […]
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It’s 2023 so it must be…Time for Teletubbies! Used to dressing the likes of Cardi B, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Lizzo, British fashion designer Christian Cowan has his sights set on a new fashion collaboration: the Teletubbies capsule collection. The accompanying photoshoot set up to promote Cowan’s new line says it all. The standout piece of the collection […]
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Henry Fielding’s classic novel The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling tells the story of the title character’s complicated journey to find real love. The newest adaptation will arrive on April 30 on PBS.
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