While it’s been a bit since I’ve been able find the proper place to admit in public that Spooks (MI-5 as it was known in America) was, and still is, the best show on television, the forthcoming theatrical release of Spooks: The Greater Good provides the perfect opportunity. For ten years (2002-2011), Peter Firth as Sir Harry […]
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Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, are headed to American telly this Sunday (as in, tomorrow) on PBS. This nothing short of brilliant small screen adaptation of Mantel’s Tudor novels will chronicle the meteoric rise to power of Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) from a blacksmith’s son to Henry VIII’s […]
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When it was originally announced that Peter Capaldi would become the Twelfth Doctor taking over for Matt Smith in 2014, there were those that raised more than a few eyebrows. Many of those who wondered whether or not this was the right choice only knew Capaldi from his more recent roles in either The Hour […]
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Now that we are post-Downton Abbey, fans of Sherlock finally have some company for their mutual separation anxiety meetings. From an American perspective, we’re looking at approximately nine months before they both return to our collective lives. With Sherlock looking at an early 2016 return for their fourth series (not counting the proposed Christmas ‘special’ that will take Sherlock […]
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As reported several weeks ago on Tellyspotting. following the conclusion of the forthcoming series of the long-running BBC police procedural, New Tricks, the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) of the Metropolitan Police Service will have solved its final case when the series calls it quits after 12 years and 107 episodes. The past […]
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At long last, the doors of Nonnatus House are set to re-open this Sunday on PBS stations across America! While, in reality, it’s only been several weeks since series 4 ended in the UK, it has seemed like a lifetime for fans of the series to have to avoid any spoilers on the Internets waiting […]
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Before you read any further…remember, there’s no crying in baseball and there will be no crying today across Downton Abbey-Nation. Unfortunately, what you have probably read recently in supermarket tabloids is now official. PBS, ITV and Carnival Films have confirmed that the forthcoming series of Downton Abbey, series 6, will be the last for what […]
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Like the day Elvis died and/or John Lennon was fatally shot, most of us know where we were when we heard the news that Matthew Crawley, the heir apparent to Downton Abbey, was killed in an automobile accident at the end of series 3. It was Christmas Day 2012 in the UK and late February […]
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It’s May 8, 1945. In Europe and around the world, people took to the streets to celebrate the end of the war. It was dubbed V-E Day (as in Victory in Europe Day) which signaled the end of World War II and was definitely cause for celebration in Europe. Targeted for a May 2015 release […]
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While UK viewers are in the middle of the steamy re-boot of Poldark, American viewers don’t quite yet know the treat that is ahead of them as the series is set to premiere on Sunday, June 21 as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series. As most readers know by now, I’m a sucker when it comes […]
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