If it wasn’t the case before, I’m now fully convinced that if you looked up the definition of brilliant in the dictionary, there would simply be a photo of Dame Judi Dench. The above pic is from our Summer 2010 interview with Dame Judi Dench for the PBS special, Behind the Britcom: From Script to Screen. She […]
Sometimes known as ‘the quiet Beatle’, George Harrison would have been 82 years young today. The Liverpool-born musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer and, oh yeah, lead guitarist of the Beatles passed away in November 2001 of lung cancer at the extraordinarily young age of 58. While most Beatles fans will immediately identify with songs written […]
Lest we continue to fall into the ‘one and done’ trap that many of our favorite British mysteries there is some brilliant news on the horizon for new seasons of Miss Scarlet, Professor T and Beyond Paradise. Given we operate in an arena where series that take a couple of seasons to find their way, […]
Meet Chief Inspector Jules Maigret! Here’s your first look at Benjamin Wainwright (Belgravia: The Next Chapter) as the famed Parisian sleuth. Maigret will be the first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector (Police Judiciaire detective Commissaire) Jules Maigret. The series will follow an “unconventional young detective with something […]
Photo credit: Bill Young One of the many upsides of having the great good fortune spend extended time with a number of our favorite British comedy stars is the opportunity to send good wishes for a very happy birthday to the brilliant Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, who turned 96 on Monday. Given Hyacinth would have been […]