Time for one of my Howard Beale moments while pondering where the heck is Lewis Black when you need him. Reading the stories in a number of Sunday papers in the UK suggesting the government is about to impose much greater restrictions on when the BBC can schedule its favorite shows, one has to wonder about its priorities […]
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Indian Summers, the drama whose second series is currently showing on Sunday nights on Channel 4 in the UK and will premiere in America on Sunday, September 11 as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series, has been cancelled after two series. Set in the summer capital of Simla during the twilight years of the British Raj, Indian Summers starred Julie […]
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With the Downton Abbey body not even cold yet here in the U.S., the next project from the pen of writer/creator Sir Julian Fellowes is headed to ITV this coming Sunday night. Doctor Thorne is adapted from the Anthony Trollope novel of the same name and tells the story of the penniless Mary Thorne, the niece […]
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In just a few short weeks (March 6th, to be exact), the doors will shut for the final time at Downton Abbey. Before Carson closes the door, for one last time, the sun will stream through the windows and light up the magnificent house even without the benefit of those electricity vapors the Dowager Countess so feared were swirling […]
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It’s been a wild ride the last several days beginning with the first new Sherlock episode in over two years on New Years Day and, now, episode one of the final season of Downton Abbey has come and gone unless, of course, you felt for some inexplicable reason that the Green Bay/Minnesota football game would be remotely more […]
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The series, Death in Paradise, is now, officially, the poster child for both how and why British television is superior to American television. In years past, it has been Spooks (MI5) or New Tricks showing the ability to completely overhaul your principle cast and still achieve the level of quality expected week in and week out which is a true testament to […]
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For the past 5+ years, Downton Abbey has not only held the title of being Britain’s most popular period drama and but it has definitely been the brightest and shiniest telly thing on both sides of the Atlantic for quite some time. As one of the few remaining Downton Abbey bandwagon jumpers, you have no doubt realized that […]
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While American audiences continue to be in denial that their favorite British period drama, Downton Abbey, is entering its final series, they are warming to the thought that the current PBS Masterpiece series, Indian Summers starring Julie Walters, might just be the thing they need to take their mind off the inevitable, especially since Channel […]
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Lewis returns to ITV1 on Tuesday, 6 October! Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox will, once again, reprise their roles as the ‘perfect’ detective team solving murders against the backdrop of the university spires of Oxford alongside Angela Griffin (Mount Pleasant, Waterloo Road, Coronation Street) as DS Lizzie Maddox. In part 1 of “One for Sorrow”, which […]
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This is getting serious. Depending on where you hang your hat, we’re talking ‘extra time’ in European football or 2:00 minute warning time in American football. With only days separating members of the U.K. chapter of Downton Abbey-Nation from the beginning of the final series of Downton Abbey, it will be virtually impossible for their […]
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