Starring Martin Shaw (Judge John Deed) as Gently and Lee Ingleby (Our Zoo) as DS John Bacchus, Inspector George Gently, the period crime drama, will return in 2015 with four new feature-length films set in 1969. Lisa McGrillis (Hebburn) also returns as WPC Rachel Coles. At this point, word out of the UK is that Inspector George […]
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With American audiences ever so close to the return of Mr. Selfridge for the third series as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series, ITV has announced that the series will return for a fourth season in 2016! Ten new episodes have been commissioned with Jeremy Piven returning as the colorful but deeply troubled Harry Gordon Selfridge […]
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First off, ITV had me with the headline, Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar to star in Unforgotten, but when they added the tag line, “Two can keep a secret – if one of them is dead“, I began clearing space on my DVR for when it premieres. Starring Nicola Walker (Spooks, Last Tango in Halifax, Scott & […]
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As hard as it is, post-Downton Abbey, life can be good as long as there is a steady stream of news from the production set where cast and crew are currently filming series 6. Especially, if the first bit of news arrives only one week removed from the finale of series 5 was broadcast on PBS’ Masterpiece series. […]
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At long last, the 2015 Poldark with Aidan Turner (Being Human, The Hobbit) in the lead roll as Captain Ross Poldark will premiere tonight on BBC One. American Poldark fans needn’t be worried. The steamier re-boot of the 1975 classic, which starred Robin Ellis as Capt. Poldark, is coming to PBS in June 2015. As many of […]
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Calling all Clunatics! How would you like to be an extra in the forthcoming series of Doc Martin? If so, the good news according to the Cornish Guardian, is that the show’s producers soon will be holding a casting session in the program’s adopted home of Port Isaac. The bad news? It’s this weekend! It will be […]
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Thankfully, this is getting to be commonplace with respect to hearing good news about quality British drama series before the previous or even the first series is aired in America. In what has seemed to become more the norm in recent years, series such as Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife, Mr. Selfridge, Endeavour and even […]
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There are some things in life that you just do not want to accept as fact. For me, growing up, it was that the hated and feared New York Yankees would pretty much be the odds-on favorite to win the World Series every year. Fortunately, times change and the Yankees are but a shell of […]
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Today is Sunday. Not just any Sunday. For me, it’s a day that, for the last 5 years, has reminded me of game 7 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals or game 7 of the World Series. In those cases, no matter which team wins, the next day there will be no more hockey or […]
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Instead of having to forever wonder just “What is a weekend?” or endlessly question the need for electricity, Dame Maggie Smith has opted to swap her trademark Dowager Countess hat and dress for a knit cap and dirty raincoat (just for a bit, Downton Abbey fans) for her forthcoming role in playwright Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the […]
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