Meet Chief Inspector Jules Maigret! Here’s your first look at Benjamin Wainwright (Belgravia: The Next Chapter) as the famed Parisian sleuth. Maigret will be the first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector (Police Judiciaire detective Commissaire) Jules Maigret. The series will follow an “unconventional young detective with something […]
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Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) returns as Miss Eliza Scarlet, Victorian London’s first ever female detective, for a fifth season of investigations beginning Sunday, January 12 as part of the Masterpiece series on PBS. Retitled as Miss Scarlet as Stuart Martin (Jamestown), who played Scotland Yard detective William “The Duke” Wellington in the previous four seasons, will […]
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Leave it to the great folks at PBS Masterpiece to start the long-awaited countdown to the series 5 premiere of All Creatures Great and Small with such brilliance. Here, courtesy of our friends at PBS Masterpiece, Nicholas Ralph puts costar Callum Woodhouse to the ultimate test with a pop quiz about what happened in Season […]
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First broadcast in 1967 on the BBC, The Forsyte Saga was produced on a budget of £10,000 per episode which, at the time, was a fairly significant gamble not only because it was the last major British drama serial to be made in black and white but it was produced at a time when only a small proportion of […]
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With the news that All Creatures Great and Small has been renewed for not one but TWO new series, it’s all smiles in Darrowby with filming to begin soon on location in Yorkshire! This is exceptionally brilliant news given that series 4 just ended this past Sunday as part of PBS’ Masterpiece series. According to a release sent out […]
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Fresh off a very successful premiere last weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Alice & Jack will find its American broadcast home in 2024 as part of Masterpiece on PBS. In collaboration with British broadcaster, Channel 4, Alice & Jack will star Academy Award®-nominated actress and producer Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie, Birdman) alongside actor, director and screenwriter Domhnall Gleeson (Brooklyn, The Revenant). […]
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It was the year 2020 when, with 3 episodes remaining in the first series of World on Fire, welcome news came from PBS and the BBC that the then Helen Hunt-led British World War II drama had been commissioned for a second series. Originally designed as a multi-year drama that would look at World War II […]
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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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Sadly, each of these announcements gets more and more difficult each time they pop up in ‘Breaking News’. Glenda Jackson, Oscar winning actress and former Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom has died and the all-too-young age of 87. Jackson died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London Thursday morning after a brief illness […]
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As you prepare to put the cell phone on ‘do not disturb’ this Sunday, PBS Masterpiece does its best to prepare you for Endeavour: The Final Season with this brief look as to what’s in store for longtime partners and special friends and the special bond between Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) and DCI Fred Thursday (Roger Allam). Series 9 begins […]
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