Capturing Sherlock Holmes’ deductive process was difficult enough for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss capturing it on the small screen is nothing short of amazing.
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St. George’s Day is being moved around a bit this year. The patron saint of England is typically celebrated on April 23, the same day Shakespeare’s birthday is celebrated. Which reminds me how reminiscent BBC Two’s ‘Upstart Crow’ is of old school British situation comedy.
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One simply cannot let Easter pass without paying tribute to the genius that is ‘Monty Python & the Holy Grail.’ More specifically, to the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
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With a premise of, “Something investigation-worthy happens somewhere rural and two policemen turn up to find out what’s gone on,” Neil Dudgeon, who plays DCI John Barnaby in Midsomer Murders, says that “the show can go on and on.”
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1930s Shanghai should be a brilliantly cool setting for the first-ever Mandarin-language adaptation of an Australian TV series, ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.’ Ma was named best actress at the 2017 Shanghai Television Festival and Jin Weiyi is the head writer and one of the producers, so there’s a really good possibility that this will have a chance.
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Sadly, the silent 11 second bit is all that exists of the Fab Four miming to “Paperback Writer” in June of 1966. The lost footage was shot by a family in Liverpool filming their TV set with an 8mm camera.
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Trust me — You don’t want to miss the premiere of Andrew Davies’ six-part adaptation of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece. Les Mis has all the tragedy, misfortune, love and visuals that GoT has, except it’s actually epic.
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‘Travel Man: 48 Hours In…’ — the popular series that premiered in 2015 and features comedian Richard Ayoade with a celebrity guest, usually from the comedy world, spending 48 hours in a popular city to discover the must-see tourist attractions — will return to the UK’s Channel 4 on Monday, April 15.
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