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  • After keeping the fire burning for 3+ years, ‘World on Fire’ finally returns to Masterpiece on PBS October 15!
    August 9, 2023

    After keeping the fire burning for 3+ years, ‘World on Fire’ finally returns to Masterpiece on PBS October 15!

    It was the year 2020 when, with 3 episodes remaining in the first series of World on Fire, welcome news came from PBS and the BBC that the then Helen Hunt-led British World War II drama had been commissioned for a second series. Originally designed as a multi-year drama that would look at World War II […]

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  • Two new bicycles on the streets of Poplar as ‘Call the Midwife’ begins filming S13
    July 20, 2023

    Two new bicycles on the streets of Poplar as ‘Call the Midwife’ begins filming S13

    With a Christmas special and a 13th series on the horizon, Call the Midwife will be adding two new faces as Renee Bailey and Natalie Quarry join the cast as student midwives and roommates, Joyce and Rosalind when the series returns in 2024. Renee Bailey (Mood, Rebel Cheer Squad, Get Millie Black) plays Joyce Highland, a Trinidadian pupil […]

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  • Post-‘Poldark’, Aidan Turner hits the tennis court in ‘Fifteen-Love’
    June 29, 2023

    Post-‘Poldark’, Aidan Turner hits the tennis court in ‘Fifteen-Love’

    Best known for his 5-year stint in PBS’ Poldark where, as Captain Ross Poldark, he returned from the American War of Independence to his home of Nampara in Cornwall after three years in the army only to find his estate is in ruins and in considerable debt, Aidan Turner is now seemingly on much safer ground as a tennis coach in Fifteen-Love. The […]

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  • Glenda Jackson — Oscar winning actress and former MP of the United Kingdom has died at 87
    June 15, 2023

    Glenda Jackson — Oscar winning actress and former MP of the United Kingdom has died at 87

    Sadly, each of these announcements gets more and more difficult each time they pop up in ‘Breaking News’. Glenda Jackson, Oscar winning actress and former Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom has died and the all-too-young age of 87. Jackson died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London Thursday morning after a brief illness […]

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  • In a sign from above and/or…below, Neil Gaiman’s ‘Good Omens’ set to return for a 2nd series next month!
    June 12, 2023

    In a sign from above and/or…below, Neil Gaiman’s ‘Good Omens’ set to return for a 2nd series next month!

    If anyone is still in need of proof that there is a God (and a Devil, for that matter), Good Omens is set to return for a second series next month. David Tennant and Michael Sheen reprise their respective roles as Crawley and Aziriphale when the series returns to Amazon Prime on July 28. While Neil Gaiman […]

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  • ‘World on Fire’ returns to PBS Masterpiece in October after 3+ year hiatus!
    June 1, 2023

    ‘World on Fire’ returns to PBS Masterpiece in October after 3+ year hiatus!

    It was the year 2020 when, with 3 episodes remaining in the first series of World on Fire, welcome news came from PBS and the BBC that the then Helen Hunt-led British World War II drama had been commissioned for a second series. Originally designed as a multi-year drama that would look at World War II […]

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  • ‘Sherlock’s’ Benedict Cumberbatch to portray Pete Seeger in Bob Dylan biopic
    May 23, 2023

    ‘Sherlock’s’ Benedict Cumberbatch to portray Pete Seeger in Bob Dylan biopic

    From the Department of If I Didn’t Before, Now I Truly Believe Benedict Cumberbatch Can Do Anything, comes news out of the Cannes Film Festival that the former Sherlock (and most everything else on Planet Earth) star will portray folk legend Pete Seeger in an upcoming Bob Dylan biopic.

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  • There is ‘life after Downton’ for two former downstairs rivals…
    May 12, 2023

    There is ‘life after Downton’ for two former downstairs rivals…

    Two former downstairs residents of Downton Abbey have landed roles in upcoming productions over the next year. Fresh off spending time in Happy Valley, Siobhan Finneran, who you’ll recognize as Downton Abbey’s resident mean girl, O’Brien, in the first three seasons of Downton Abbey, joins the cast of The Damned which recently finished filming in Iceland. Described as a ‘tense […]

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  • PBS sets June premiere date for ‘Ridley’ with Adrian Dunbar
    May 8, 2023

    PBS sets June premiere date for ‘Ridley’ with Adrian Dunbar

    After spending the better part of six+ series on Line of Duty dodging the possibility that, as Superintendent Ted Hastings, he was the ‘elusive H’, Adrian Dunbar plays a former police detective coaxed out of retirement to serve as a consultant on a complex murder case that has been plaguing a former protege in Ridley. Alex Ridley hasn’t been sitting […]

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  • ‘Call the Midwife’ getting in the holiday spirit beginning this week!
    May 1, 2023

    ‘Call the Midwife’ getting in the holiday spirit beginning this week!

    With filming set to begin this week on this years Call the Midwife Christmas special, Stephen McGann (Dr. Patrick Turner) joked recently with the press that he was certain the sun would come out to mark the occasion. “We literally start next week with Christmas again,” he said. “And I guarantee you, the sun will come out and […]

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