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September 21, 2023
Post TIFF, ‘Alice & Jack’ headed to PBS Masterpiece in 2024

Fresh off a very successful premiere last weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Alice & Jack will find its American broadcast home in 2024 as part of Masterpiece on PBS. In collaboration with British broadcaster, Channel 4, Alice & Jack will star Academy Award®-nominated actress and producer Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie, Birdman) alongside actor, director and screenwriter Domhnall Gleeson (Brooklyn, The Revenant). […]
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September 3, 2023
Day 5: KERA’s All Creatures Tour heads to where else but…. ‘All Creatures G&S’ in the Dales!

Yes, I bounded out of bed this morning fresh off a 2.5 mile walking of the walls around the city of York so, combined with the fact that we were headed to the Yorkshire Dales and the filming locations for All Creatures Great and Small, this is going to be a great day all the way […]
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August 15, 2023
Hail Caesar! ‘I, Claudius’ returns to BBC this month!

Almost five decades ago after Robert Graves wrote I, Claudius, the BBC created television greatness with the 1976 classic of the same name, starring the brilliant Sir Derek Jacobi as the Roman Emperor. Graves’ autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius, chronicled the history of the Roman Empire from Julius Caesar’s assassination to Caligula’s assassination. The original […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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