Red Nose Day 2019 to reunite ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ cast — for a fifth wedding
BBC One will be the place to be on Friday, March 15, as Red Nose Day will once again revive a Richard Curtis rom-com for charity.
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Mr. Humphries may have been ‘free,’ but John Inman’s memorabilia goes up for auction
Twelve years after his death, a bit of John Inman’s personal items and memorabilia from British sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?’ is headed to auction on Tuesday, February 19.
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More blood, guts and brilliant forensic work headed our way as BBC commissions ‘Silent Witness’ S23
Before series 22 could even fade to black earlier this week, the BBC confirmed it had commissioned another series of the critically acclaimed, award winning British crime drama series.
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‘Broken’ starring Sean Bean emerges from BBC Showcase as another must-see TV drama
I have to believe if you looked up words like “gritty,” “powerful” or “gripping” in the dictionary, you would find the episode listings for ‘Broken.’
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Shaun Evans returns as DS Endeavour Morse when series 6 premieres June 16 on PBS
Shaun Evans is back at it both in front of and behind the camera as Endeavour returns for its 6th series beginning Sunday, June 16 at 9pET / 8pCT on PBS (February 10 on ITV). Sporting a new look complete with a moustache sadly indicative of the time period, Evans will put his directorial mark on […]
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R.I.P. Clive Swift, aka Richard Bucket (pronounced Bouquet)
Clive Swift, known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket’s long-suffering husband Richard in the BBC One 90s sitcom, Keeping Up Appearances, died Friday after a short illness at the age of 82. Swift, who spent 10 years at the Royal Shakespeare Company before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and […]
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BBC/PBS to partner on new landmark natural history series ‘Green Planet’
Following in the footsteps of the brilliant Blue Planet and Planet Earth, the BBC Natural History Unit in partnership with PBS is hoping to make stars of the Earth’s plant kingdom with the forthcoming series, Green Planet. Deadline reports that the series will tell the story of “Planet Earth from the perspective of plants”. The new five-part series aims to […]
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Bodyguard’s Keeley Hawes returns to MI5 in Channel 4’s period spy drama ‘Traitors’
Venturing into Nicola Walker territory in my book, the greatness that is Keeley Hawes returns next month in a new spy drama from Channel 4, Traitors. The former Spooks, Ashes to Ashes, Durrells in Corfu, Upstairs Downstairs, Line of Duty, Bodyguard star will play Priscilla, a woman working as a member of the Civil Service following the Labour Party’s […]
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What is The Great British Baking Show’s recipe for success in America?
Downton Abbey excluded, the most popular UK telly import these days may very well be The Great British Baking Show. As the LA Times once wrote: “Contestants never say things like ‘I didn’t come here to make friends.’ There are no irritating product placements and – perhaps most incomprehensibly to American audiences – no material riches to […]
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MODUS comes to PBS as first offering from Channel 4’s Walter Presents
PBS’ PBS Distribution unit recently struck a deal with British streaming service Walter Presents, which last year launched in the U.S. as an SVOD product, to add more than 300 hours of international drama series to its PBS Masterpiece channel on Amazon’s Prime Video Channels. Started in January 2016 as a co-venture between Britain’s Channel 4, […]
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