Having come to the realization that nothing will ever replace Downton Abbey in our collective telly lives, PBS has lined up the next best thing that will, hopefully, go a long way to ease your pain and reduce the separation anxiety that has occupied our mind palaces for the past few weeks. Beginning this Sunday, you can immerse […]
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It’s Spring so must be time for another brilliant contemporary political thriller from the BBC. Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Adrian Lester (Hustle, Othello) star as Maya, a high-profile lawyer and her policeman husband, Nick, a husband and wife with some serious secrets. Maya is about to become the first black Director of Public Prosecutions. Just as […]
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It’s hard to believe that America is only one week removed since we said farewell to our long-time friends above and below the stairs at Downton Abbey. Tonight will be the first major test for those of us that have spent 8-9 Sunday nights a year for the last six years immersed in the trials and tribulations of […]
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Buck up, little camper. Times are tough right now with Downton Abbey being in our collective drama rearview mirror following Sunday nights finale. But, how can you be down in the dumps at the moment when even Lady Edith is happy! You’d have to be a Lady Mary to not be happy as she and Bertie […]
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In America, ‘daytime dramas’ have always been called ‘soaps’ and largely said with a bit of a snicker when talking about them to others. More often than not, ‘soaps’ are considered guilty pleasures in the States where viewers find it difficult to admit that they know that Tracy Quartermaine’s life was saved by Dr. Marcus […]
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One of the brightest spots in the drama category at the recent BBC Showcase in Liverpool was The Durrells. Based on ‘The Corfu Trilogy’, three autobiographical novels (which include ‘My Family and Other Animals’) by environmentalist Gerald Durrell, The Durrells is set on the Greek Island of Corfu in 1935, and follows the adventures of Gerald and his […]
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UK viewers closed the book on another gut-wrenching series of Call the Midwife last night. Without exception, the Heidi Thomas creation has to be considered the most fearless series on television. Having dealt with domestic abuse, prostitution, infant mortality, homosexuality, racism, poverty and alcohol addiction, the series tackles its most difficult and/or boldest subject to date when Call the Midwife returns […]
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Oddly, in this instance, the seventh and final game of baseball’s World Series is a bit like tonight’s broadcast of Downton Abbey. Stay with me here. Just like the seventh and final game of the World Series, you know that no matter who wins, the next day there is no baseball. After tonight’s broadcast of the ninth […]
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With the Downton Abbey body not even cold yet here in the U.S., the next project from the pen of writer/creator Sir Julian Fellowes is headed to ITV this coming Sunday night. Doctor Thorne is adapted from the Anthony Trollope novel of the same name and tells the story of the penniless Mary Thorne, the niece […]
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Chalk this up as yet another reason why UK telly is more than a cut above the rest of Planet Earth. Take for example, Sunday night. While a majority of the U.S. was trying to think of anything possible to watch other than the mindless red-carpet preview of the 88th Academy Awards, the BBC and […]
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