The final leg of our 2024 Iconic British Classics Tour of England has us cautiously entering the quiet English country village of Dorchester-on-Thames, the home of a number of filming sequences of Midsomer Murders, where the body count is in excess of 200 over the years.
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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 […]
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As Endeavour entered its ninth and final season, and old ‘friend’ resurfaced by the name of Blenheim Vale, the old unsolved case surrounding the residential home for wayward boys that closed in 1955. The events around Blenheim Vale were first featured in Endeavour S2, Ep 4, “Neverland”. Blenheim Vale 101 In Neverland, first broadcast in Summer 2014 on PBS, the Blenheim […]
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The KERA Great British Telly Tour headed to Oxford on Thursday for an Inspector Morse, Lewis and Endeavour walking tour of the hallowed halls of the 39 colleges that make up Oxford University (16 of the colleges were actually featured in the Inspector Morse series alone!). Named the ‘fictional murder capital of England’ for obvious reasons, Oxford proved to be a treasure trove of information, partly in just learning how the University system works.
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With new found confidence after surviving our time in the small English village of Dorchester-on-Thames touring several Midsomer Murder locations and living to tell about it, the Transcendent Travel/KERA Great British Telly Tour continued safely on to Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey) and Chavenage House (Poldark) on Wednesday. Being able to experience the more than familiar locations used […]
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For the forthcoming 3rd series of Victoria, the Queen returns to the throne but tough times are ahead. One can only guess that as we continue to make our way through Victoria’s 63 year, 7 month reign that with more children on the horizon, the struggles of motherhood and being the Queen of the United Kingdom […]
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As U.S. viewers settle in for Sundays series 5 finale of Endeavour on PBS, Shaun Evans is back at it both in front of and behind the camera as filming has begun on series 6. Sporting a new look complete with sunglasses and a moustache befitting of 1969, Evans will put his directorial mark on the […]
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Filming has just begun on series 3 which is set in 1848, a “turbulent and uncertain time” for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, according to producers. Victoria is under pressure from the government to leave London for her own safety, amid fears of revolution and unrest in London. But the Queen is also facing pressure […]
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Tim Pigott-Smith, the acclaimed British character actor, who catapulted to fame in the 1980s as the villainous police superintendent, Ronald Merrick, in the television series, The Jewel in the Crown, died on Friday in Northampton, England at the age of 70. Pigott-Smith won the BAFTA Award of Best Actor in 1985 for his work in The Jewel […]
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Crime writer Colin Dexter, the creator/author of the ‘Inspector Morse’ books died peacefully at his home in Oxford yesterday. Overall, Dexter wrote 13 Morse novels between 1975 and 1999. They were later adapted for the long-running ITV series of the same name and starred John Thaw. The author worked closely behind the scenes of the Inspector Morse series […]
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