If you’re the one that has yet to see Downton Abbey on television and are feeling a bit left out of the conversation, not to worry. Jim Carter (Mr Carson) and Phyllis Logan (Mrs Hughes) are here to safely walk you through the six series that aired on ITV in the UK from 2010-2015 and in the […]
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Chortle has confirmed that David Mitchell will reprise his role from the brilliant sitcom as William Shakespeare when Upstart Crow comes to the stage with a live version in London’s West End. In addition to Mitchell, Gemma Whelan will reprise her TV role as aspiring actress Kate. No further cast announcements have been made as of yet. Creator Ben Elton […]
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Playing a bit of catch-up following a fabulous couple of weeks in the UK, I returned to the States only to find out that Miss Fisher & The Crypt of Tears, the film version of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries seems to be creating almost as much buzz as the big screen version of its British period-drama counterpart, Downton Abbey. […]
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In what could have had viewers thinking that they had mistakenly tuned in to the BAFTA’s instead of the Emmys, half of the 27 awards were handed to Brits or Brit-produced shows including Fleabag, Chernobyl, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Succession, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Killing Eve and A Very English Scandal.
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The Big Bang Theory stars Jim Parsons and Mayim Bialik, who played Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler on the recently ended CBS sitcom, have partnered for Carla, a new multi-camera comedy to be based on Miranda Hart’s BBC series Miranda.
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At long last, season Three of The Crown, starring Oscar-winning Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II (replacing Oscar-nominee Claire Foy), arrives on 17 November. Giving us a glimpse of Olivia Colman playing Queen Elizabeth II for the first time, the recently released Netflix trailer shows that the creators definitely have a sense of humor or […]
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World on Fire, an emotionally gripping World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in five countries as they grapple with the effects of the war on their everyday lives is coming to PBS and Masterpiece in 2020.
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While it was, admittedly, hard to leave the ice cream of Sidmouth and then also having to wave goodbye to Lady Grey of the DeVere Tortworth Court Hotel, the idea of walking the grounds of Hampton Court Palace as part of the next leg of the To the Manor Born KERA Tour of England tour somehow made everything more than tolerable.
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As we made our way back towards London from Cornwall, the To the Manor Born KERA Tour of England stopped briefly to grab an ice cream and see the red cliffs of the Jurassic Coast in Sidmouth, a seaside town with a rich royal history. It was December 1819 when the Duke and Duchess of Kent […]
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