Red Nose Day has to be the single most brilliant example known to man and/or woman of how an entire country demonstrates the ability to rally around a charitable cause. To label Red Nose Day in the UK as a cultural phenomenon is doing it an injustice. It’s an institution. The entire country gets involved. The entire British […]
Read moreArmed with a newly acquired deep Disney pocketbook, it looks like there are potential Doctor Who spin-off programs in the works. Programs, good or bad, that weren’t even on the ‘let’s discuss’ track until the recent streaming acquisition by Disney+. While new Doctor Who episodes might still be months away, returning showrunner Russell T Davies has kept the news coming, now […]
Read moreLong considered one of the most popular ‘Doctors’, Tom Baker turned 89 on Friday. As the Fourth Doctor, Baker portrayed the travelling Time Lord from 1974-1981 with Elisabeth Sladen as companion/journalist Sarah Jane Smith along for the ride, taking over for Jon Pertwee. His eccentric style of dress, quirky personality, trademark look of a long scarf […]
Read moreNolly tells the story of British soap opera legend Noele Gordon (Helena Bonham Carter), a.k.a. Nolly, who played Meg Richardson in hit ITV soap Crossroads whose unceremonious firing from her hit show at the height of her career was front-page news. As one of the most famous faces on British TV in the 1960s and ’70s, Gordon […]
Read moreThe adaptation of Henry Fielding’s classic novel The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, long considered to be one of the earliest novels in the English language, tells the story of the title character’s complicated journey to find real love. Delighting readers since 1749, Tom Jones will continue to do just that in this 4-part television […]
Read moreAfter reading recently that Life on Mars, one of the great British series right up there with The Prisoner (IMHO) premiered on 9 January 2006, I reminded myself about the greatness of the series starring Philip Glenister as DCI Gene Hunt and John Simm as DI Sam Tyler. Primarily set in the 70s, the series centered around Tyler, a […]
Read moreBy bringing back six series and premiering two period dramas in the first half of 2023 alone, PBS has already planted the drama flag in 2023 before 2022 comes to a close proving it will be THE place to be on Sunday evenings for the best in British drama. Sunday, January 8 will see the series […]
Read moreThe teaser features new footage of David Tennant as the Tenth Fourteenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as the returning Donna Noble, and Neil Patrick Harris, who is joining the cast as an ‘enigmatic antagonist.'
Read moreSinéad Keenan joins DI Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) for the forthcoming S5 of Unforgotten following the tragic S4 finale and the death of DCI Cassie Stewart (Nicola Walker) as DCI, Jessica ‘Jessie’ James. Walker went on to star in Annika for the BBC and PBS this past year. Series 5 will pick up not long after the end of the last […]
Read moreNormally the line forms to the left for those interested in a guest role on Death in Paradise with most in line hoping they’re witnesses and not the victim or ‘person of interest’ with the over/under usually set at around 7. Recent news out of the DIP camp reveals this year will be no different with respect to […]
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