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 […]
Read more
With the sun finally setting last night on series 13 of Death in Paradise, we will resist the temptation and urge to begin wild speculation and refrain from too many spoilers given the series has yet to have its small screen premiere on your local public television station in the U.S. at this point. It is […]
Read more
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 create brilliant content and 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 […]
Read more
It’s been just a few years since our 2015 stay in Moreton-in-Marsh during filming of series 3 of Father Brown for our behind-the-scenes production of Father Brown: Saving Souls, Solving Crimes for PBS. Fast forward to 2024 where Father Brown’s bike is coming out of storage and getting ready to make the streets of Kembleford safe once again. With […]
Read more
File this one under ‘reason #(I’ve lost count)’ that I would love to live in the UK. In keeping with their long-standing tradition of airing brilliant telly on Christmas or Boxing Day, Sir David Jason hosts The Story Of Only Fools and Horses at Christmas, the 90-minute feature documentary reflecting on the show’s Yuletide episodes, including […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
Following the most recent spin-off, Beyond Paradise, starring Kris Marshall, the Death in Paradise Universe keeps growing with the recent announcement that a new spin-off, Return to Paradise is on the horizon. The Australian horizon to be exact. The new series will be set in the idyllic, beachside hamlet of Dolphin Cove and follow Australian ex-pat Mackenzie Clarke, who […]
Read more
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. Doyle came to hate Holmes and killed him […]
Read more
While Joe Fagin might not be the household name that you immediately recognize, you are probably familiar with his work on a weekly basis if you have been a long-time viewer of the BBC or public television stations in the United States. Fagin passed away early last month at the age of 83. Fagin was […]
Read more
In a move that traditionally tends to defy any conceivable valid explanation, the BBC has cancelled the Ben Elton comedy Upstart Crow after three critically acclaimed and highly successful series. David Mitchell was brilliant as a young William Shakespeare which spanned three series, several specials and an incredible limited run at both the Gielgud and Apollo Theatres in […]
Read more