Before you read any further…remember, there’s no crying in baseball and there will be no crying today across Downton Abbey-Nation. Unfortunately, what you have probably read recently in supermarket tabloids is now official. PBS, ITV and Carnival Films have confirmed that the forthcoming series of Downton Abbey, series 6, will be the last for what […]
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Even though it was 1975, it seems like it was just yesterday that I was standing in line at the Esquire Theatre in Dallas for the ‘world premiere’ of this unknown film called Monty Python and the Holy Grail. After about an hour in line, they handed each of us coconuts and moved us inside. […]
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Even though they had me at ‘starring Patrick Stewart’, the fact that the new Starz scripted comedy series, Blunt Talk, comes from the mind palace of series creator Jonathan Ames (Bored to Death), who will also executive produce along with Seth MacFarlane, Tristram Shapeero and Stephanie Davis, is all the more reason to check it […]
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Like the day Elvis died and/or John Lennon was fatally shot, most of us know where we were when we heard the news that Matthew Crawley, the heir apparent to Downton Abbey, was killed in an automobile accident at the end of series 3. It was Christmas Day 2012 in the UK and late February […]
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I may be in the minority here, but one of my most favorite British situation comedies of all-time is Open All Hours. Written by Roy Clarke (Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances) and starring comedy legends Ronnie Barker and David Jason, Open All Hours ‘premiered’ in 1973 as a last-minute addition to Barker’s comedy anthology series, Seven […]
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With series 3 filming now complete, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is set to return in 2015 on ABC in Australia and on a number of public television stations in America. Armed with her pearl-handled pistol and, let’s just say, a rather adventurous outlook on life for a woman of that era, Essie Davis returns as the […]
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More often than not, fortunately or unfortunately, the story lines of the brilliant British situation comedy, W1A, are far too close to reality and, in some cases, frighteningly accurate. For instance, how many out there have suffered through meetings like this… In the case of W1A, the comedy which stars Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville as BBC […]
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It’s May 8, 1945. In Europe and around the world, people took to the streets to celebrate the end of the war. It was dubbed V-E Day (as in Victory in Europe Day) which signaled the end of World War II and was definitely cause for celebration in Europe. Targeted for a May 2015 release […]
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The good news is the we are under a double-digit number of months away from the long-awaited, highly-anticipated Sherlock special that is tentatively penciled in for Christmas 2015 on BBC One and PBS. Bad news is that we are still roughly 9 months out from seeing co-creators/writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss get the band […]
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While UK viewers are in the middle of the steamy re-boot of Poldark, American viewers don’t quite yet know the treat that is ahead of them as the series is set to premiere on Sunday, June 21 as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series. As most readers know by now, I’m a sucker when it comes […]
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