With Downton Abbey coming to a close (don’t panic if you’re in States, you still have January 2016 to look forward to!), the final orchestral recordings for the unforgettable music soundtrack were recorded this past Tuesday at London’s Abbey Road Studios. Thanks to the fact that they live streamed on Periscope for all the world to see […]
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Katherine Kelly, who charmed the ‘you know what’ off of Harry Gordon Selfridge for the last several years as Lady Mae Loxley in Mr. Selfridge, will turn her attention to a live on Christmas Day in the UK, TV adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound Of Music. Joining Kelly will be her Mr. Selfridge co-star, Kara Tointon, who played […]
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Ok, just kidding, but with yesterday’s bombshell announcement that the forthcoming Sherlock special will air on New Years Day at 9pET/8pCT on PBS (and on BBC One in the UK), we finally have something to rattle the cage of college football’s BCS (Bowl Championship Series). Don’t forget, Sugar Bowl committee, PBS’ Downton Abbey finished as the next […]
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As America readies itself for the sixth and final series of Downton Abbey, an Australian drama that is deservedly being tagged as the ‘Australian Downton Abbey‘ is headed west of the Atlantic. Debuting in Australia in 2013, series 3 of A Place to Call Home has just begun in the land down under with stars […]
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With heavy emphasis on the word loosely, Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is ‘loosely’ based on the Jane Austen novel of almost but quite the same name. For PP&Z, it seems as though Pemberley has come under attack from the undead. Fortunately, for all, the Bennetts knew karate. The big screen version, due to […]
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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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At long last, #DowntonDay is here! While there are a few months more to wait if you live in the U.S., Downton Abbey fans in the UK have been waiting for this day to come since 25 December 2014. For the past 5+ years, Britain’s most popular period drama has been the brightest and shiniest thing on […]
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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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I don’t profess to be a Game of Thrones expert. In fact, truth be told, I’m more than a couple of series behind most of the rest of Planet Earth. After Mad Men, Breaking Bad and, more recently, Mr. Robot, there just didn’t seem to be any more bandwidth available to get hooked on a series when you […]
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It’s hard to grasp that UK audiences are within days of the return of Downton Abbey for its sixth and final series. Yes, PBS audiences in America are still several months removed from Downton opening its’ doors in January 2016 but, hey, we can live vicariously, can’t we? That said, we all know that based on the […]
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