Sometimes known as ‘the quiet Beatle’, George Harrison would have been 80 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 […]
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One of the all-time greats celebrated another trip around the Sun recently. William Frances (a.k.a. Bill) Nighy turned 73 on December 12. From Love Actually to Pirates of the Carribean to Pirate Radio to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz to State of Play and the Johnny Worricker trilogy of Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield, Bill Nighy can do no wrong in […]
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There’s a simultaneous joy and danger to cleaning out drawers and files as, good or bad, you never know what you might run across. In this case, it was pure joy to stumble onto a memory from our time attending the annual BBC Showcase in Brighton from the mid-90s to the mid-2000s. Each year, 500 […]
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Not to be outdone by the number of quality drama series coming to PBS stations, the genres of science and natural history were quite well represented at BBC Showcase.
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He’ll square off against Frances McDormand as the voice of God in the long-anticipated adaptation of the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel.
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‘Home’ is not only funny but will remind us all what the concept of home really means.
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‘The Mallorca Files’ shows, once again, that paradise isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, with more death than the law allows.
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While there’s no phobia for blood this time around, Warren Thompson does find himself living in an area he doesn’t like, thinks the world is against him, always knows best and speaks his mind.
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Crossing oceanic fracture zones is just one of the dangerous things Tellyspotting goes through to report on the best of BBC programming and bring it back to the States.
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I have to believe if you looked up words like “gritty,” “powerful” or “gripping” in the dictionary, you would find the episode listings for ‘Broken.’
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