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Posted November 7, 2018 -  No Comment

Get a first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in Channel 4 drama ‘Brexit: The Uncivil War’

Cumberbatch had to spend a bit more time in makeup for this role than he did for ‘Sherlock.’

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Posted May 22, 2017 -  No Comment

Looking back at S6 and ahead to S7 brings tears of both joy and sadness for fans of ‘Call the Midwife’

While Sunday nights Call the Midwife series 6 finale was filled with enough happiness and sadness to make me wish I had invested in Kleenex stock years ago, there is already series 7 news out of the UK that will possibly make long time viewers a bit unhappy. Already surviving the fact that Chummy, played brilliantly by Miranda […]

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Posted July 1, 2015 -  No Comment

Another villain in the future for Sherlock’s Andrew Scott in ‘Swallows and Amazons’

When we last saw Andrew Scott, his character of Moriarty had ‘left the building’ at the end of series two of Sherlock. He returned a year later and uttered those now unforgettable words “Miss me?” as his final phrase in the last episode of series three of Sherlock. While it’s impossible to go inside the […]

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