“A towel, [The Guide] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Not only does it have great practical value, a towel has immense psychological value” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Today, H2G2 fans are marking the 23rd anniversary since the all-too-early passing of creator/writer, Douglas […]
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Larry the Cat at #10. Editorial credit: Drop of Light / Shutterstock.com Despite the recent surprise annoucement by current UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak calling for a 4 July general election, there has been one constant at the most famous address this side of 221B Baker Street 10 Downing Street since 2011. Serving as Chief Mouser […]
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Once again, THE podcast you been waiting for (and hopefully listening to) that digs deep and goes behind-the-scenes into the long-running British mystery series, Midsomer Murders!, continues to showcase the idea that things aren’t always that rosey when living in a picturesque small English village (in this weeks episode, the town of Fletcher’s Cross). With new […]
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The Internets hair has been on fire recently with the official confirmation from Focus Features and Carnival Films of a third film in the Downton Abbey saga coming this past week. Months of rumors have finally been put to rest as a third film following on from 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Era is happening! […]
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Sir David Attenborough, the one-time director of BBC Programming in the 60s and 70s turned biologist, natural historian, and writer, turned 98 years young on Wednesday (8 May). Beginning with Life on Earth in 1979, Attenborough set about creating a body of work which became a benchmark of quality in wildlife film-making, and influenced a generation of […]
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With DI Neville Parker’s time on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie as head of the Honoré Police Department having come to an end, the search was on once again for a new DI to solve what seems to be a weekly murder on the tiny fictional picturesque island of Saint Marie.
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Once again, THE podcast you been waiting for (and hopefully listening to) that digs deep and goes behind-the-scenes into the long-running British mystery series, Midsomer Murders!, continues to showcase the idea that things aren’t always that rosey when living in a picturesque small English village. With new episodes dropping each Thursday, this week we dig deep […]
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First broadcast in 1967 on the BBC, The Forsyte Saga was produced on a budget of £10,000 per episode which, at the time, was a fairly significant gamble not only because it was the last major British drama serial to be made in black and white but it was produced at a time when only a small proportion of […]
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Masterpiece on PBS recently announced that Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) would return as Miss Eliza Scarlet, Victorian London’s first ever female detective, for a fifth season of investigations. The series will be retitled, Miss Scarlet but Stuart Martin (Jamestown), who played Scotland Yark detective William “The Duke” Wellington in the previous four seasons, will not return for Season […]
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Sadly, there is no joy in Mudville these days as word has come out that series 14 of Vera will be the last as Branda Blethyn has said it’s time to hang up the floppy fishing hat and iconic trench coat. Adapted from crime author Ann Cleeves’ Inspector Stanhope novels, the Northumberland-based detective series has graced […]
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