Posted October 24, 2024 -  No Comment

KERA celebrates 50 years of Monty Python with screening of ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ at the Texas Theatre — Nov 13!

The legend of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had its American beginning on KERA/Dallas as part of one seemingly uneventful Sunday evening 50 years ago this past month. To celebrate, KERA will host an evening that will potentially set cinema back some 900 years with a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Wednesday, November 13 at 7:00p at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff.

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Posted September 26, 2024 -  No Comment

‘Shakespeare & Hathaway’ to return for S5!

At long last, the BBC has confirmed that Shakespeare & Hathaway will return for a 5th series. Filming is currently underway in Stratford-upon-Avon with Jo Joyner, Mark Benton and Patrick Walshe McBride reprising their roles as Luella, a.k.a. Lu, Shakespeare, Frank Hathaway and Sebastian Brudenell. Expressing what can easily be categorized as youthful exhuberance, the cast […]

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Posted September 19, 2024 -  No Comment

‘Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs Doyle’ headed to PBS this December!

Lucy Worsley Holmes vs Doyle. Photo: BBC Studios/PBS Unfortunately, it’s not a new series of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman but, for my money, it’s the next best thing as the brilliant Lucy Worsley will tackle the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and his literary creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an upcoming 3-part documentary […]

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Posted September 12, 2024 -  No Comment

Masterpiece announces new ‘Maigret’ adaptation on PBS

Photo courtesy: PBS Masterpiece and Playground Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, the first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector (Police Judiciaire detective Commissaire) Jules Maigret has gone into production in Budapest which, once again, doubles for post-WWII France. According to Masterpiece and Playground, the Golden Globe […]

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Posted May 12, 2024 -  No Comment

Happy 98th Sir David Attenborough!

Sir David Attenborough, the one-time director of BBC Programming in the 60s and 70s turned biologist, natural historian, and writer, turned 98 years young on Wednesday (8 May). Beginning with Life on Earth in 1979, Attenborough set about creating a body of work which became a benchmark of quality in wildlife film-making, and influenced a generation of […]

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Posted May 2, 2024 -  No Comment

‘The Forsyte Saga’ headed to Masterpiece on PBS

First broadcast in 1967 on the BBC, The Forsyte Saga was produced on a budget of £10,000 per episode which, at the time, was a fairly significant gamble not only because it was the last major British drama serial to be made in black and white but it was produced at a time when only a small proportion of […]

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Posted April 4, 2024 -  No Comment

‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’ on PBS Masterpiece — a first look!

When two-time Booker Prize-winning author, Hilary Mantel passed away in September 2022 at the all-too-young age of 70, she was consulting on the television adaptation of her most recent 2020 novel, “The Mirror and the Light”, which was the conclusion to her critically acclaimed Tudor trilogy. The writer’s first two books in the trilogy, “Wolf […]

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Posted April 1, 2024 -  1 Comment

BBC, former Python Terry Jones, discover flying penguins!

The day BBC presenter, Terry Jones, discovered a colony of penguins which are unlike any other penguins in the world. Back in 2008, the BBC announced that camera crews filming near the Antarctic for its natural history Miracles of Evolution series had captured footage of Adélie penguins taking to the air. Film maker, writer, former […]

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