Dennis Waterman, a.k.a. Gerry Standing, of British police procedural New Tricks fame, died Sunday at age 74 in hospital in Spain. As the last original ‘old dog’ member of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) of the Metropolitan Police Service in New Tricks, Waterman appeared in every episode of the series’ first 11 […]
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As if I needed another reason to up my bucket list desire to live in London, this heart-warming true story of Dr. Margaret McCollum just put a big exclamation point on that goal. Grab a box of kleenex as you’re going to need it after you read the incredibly touching story of Margaret who was […]
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A series that played a significant part in shaping my ‘formative years in British telly’ was when I first discovered Monty Python’s Flying Circus. When it first aired in the United States on October 6, 1974, courtesy of my local PBS station, KERA (where I have now worked for a majority of my career in television), it […]
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The Man Who Fell To Earth, based on the Walter Tevis 1963 novel and Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 cult classic film starring David Bowie, will follow a new alien character (Faraday), played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future. Bill […]
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Set against the backdrop of a swinging sixties London we haven’t seen: an East End world where far right fascism is on the rise, PBS’ Ridley Road tells the story of Vivien Epstein (Aggi O’Casey), a young Jewish woman who after falling in love with a member of the ‘62 Group’, rejects her comfortable middle-class life […]
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What does one do to pass the time following the conclusion of the first series of an intriguingly interesting series based on a BBC Radio 4 drama while you wait to hear if there will be a second series? If you happen to be Nicola Walker, you head to London’s National Theatre, obviously, where you […]
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With series 2 of Sanditon in our collective rear-view mirrors as of this past Sunday on PBS, Masterpiece has given us a brief sneak peak at series 3 (accent on ‘brief’) which is tentatively slated for 2023 broadcast. Thankfully, series 2 was filled with enough shocks, surprises, delights, romance and heartbreak to make most everyone forget about the […]
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This coming Saturday, William Shakespeare would have been a mere 458 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 406 […]
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Pulling out all the stops for the BBC’s Centenary celebration, the series will bring together Doctor Who past, present and future.
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