• Sunday night is Must. See. TV. on PBS….once again.

    Sunday night is Must. See. TV. on PBS….once again.

    While Must See TV was derived as an advertising slogan that was used by NBC to brand its Thursday night primetime programming during the 1990s, it was just that….an advertising slogan. Originally assigned to whatever sitcoms scheduled on Thursdays such as The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, Cheers, etc., dramas were traditionally promoted separately. Fast forward to Sunday nights on PBS and […]

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  • Happy belated 89th, Dame Maggie Smith!

    Happy belated 89th, Dame Maggie Smith!

      Fresh on the heels of one of the all-time greats of the acting world (Dame Judi Dench) turning 89 earlier this month on December 9, we now have the brilliant opportunity to celebrate another ‘Dame’ as she also turned 89 this past week – Dame Maggie Smith. Although she has achieved worldwide recognition with […]

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  • First look — ‘Miss Austen’ with Keeley Hawes on PBS Masterpiece

    First look — ‘Miss Austen’ with Keeley Hawes on PBS Masterpiece

    Filming is underway on an all-star production of Gill Hornby’s best-selling and much loved novel Miss Austen. Miss Austen takes a literary mystery, one where Cassandra Austen notoriously burns her famous sister Jane’s letters and then reimagines it as a fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, while creating in Cassandra a character as captivating as any […]

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  • ‘Wolf Hall’ sequel, ‘The Mirror and the Light’ set for PBS Masterpiece

    ‘Wolf Hall’ sequel, ‘The Mirror and the Light’ set for PBS Masterpiece

    When two-time Booker Prize-winning author, Hilary Mantel passed away in September 2022 at the all-too-young age of 70, she was consulting on the television adaptation of her most recent 2020 novel, “The Mirror and the Light”, which was the conclusion to her critically acclaimed Tudor trilogy. The writer’s first two books in the trilogy, “Wolf […]

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  • ‘Funny Woman’ to cap off a night of Must. See. TV. on PBS beginning January 7.

    ‘Funny Woman’ to cap off a night of Must. See. TV. on PBS beginning January 7.

    Adding to its long-standing practice of providing stellar drama choices on Sunday nights, PBS has added Funny Woman to line-up beginning January 7 at 10pET/9pCT following the return of new series of All Creatures Great and Small and Miss Scarlet and The Duke earlier that evening. Funny Woman follows Barbara Parker (Gemma Arterton), a small-town (Blackpool) beauty queen who decides to swap […]

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  • ‘Farewell Doc Martin’ bids a tearful goodbye to Portwenn

    ‘Farewell Doc Martin’ bids a tearful goodbye to Portwenn

    It seems like only yesterday that Dr. Martin Ellingham, the surly and self-centered medic with a rude bedside manner and a phobia of blood, graced the good folks and coastline of Portwenn with his vast medical knowledge by becoming the general practicioner in Portwenn, the sleepy Cornish village where he had spent childhood holidays with his Aunt […]

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