At long last, H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds gets an Edwardian England makeover on the BBC this Autumn. What makes this particular adaptation so appealing is that instead of being set in present day (or, in the U.S. for that matter), it will remain true to the novel’s original 1898 Victorian England setting.
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With tonight’s premiere of the final series of Poldark on PBS, viewers will be in on the beginning of Ross Poldark’s long ride from the Cornish coast into the sunset and out of our lives. … Where we left off…. In Season 4’s unforgettable finale, Elizabeth drank a highly dangerous labor-inducing potion and delivered a small but healthy […]
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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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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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Saying goodbye to Cricket St. Thomas, the home of To the Manor Born, the KERA Tour of England continued further west this past week with a tour of Port Isaac and the Cornwall coast followed by a walk-through of the Greenway Estate, the holiday home of Agatha Christie and the setting for the final Hercule Poirot […]
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Fresh off her current stint as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, the 2019 Best Actress Oscar-winner for The Favourite is headed to the animated world of The Simpsons as a ‘femme fatal’ who only has eyes for the one-and-only Homer Simpson.
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Press, the 6-part drama which takes place in the contemporary world of the British newspaper industry, focusing on the two publications – broadsheet newspaper The Herald and tabloid newspaper The Post, is headed to Masterpiece this Fall on PBS.
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Sanditon, Andrew Davies’ eight-part take on Jane Austen’s final and incomplete novel of the same name is coming to PBS and ITV. When it arrives, expect plenty of romance and the obligatory frolics to follow.
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While PBS viewers in America have a bit of time to steady themselves for the fifth and final series starring Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson premieres, UK viewers have only a week to pull themselves together as episode one premieres next Sunday, 14 July at 9pm on BBC1.
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