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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As if we didn’t get our fill of stunning countryside and coastline in Port Isaac, today’s journey on the KERA/Transcendent Travel Iconic British Classics 2024 Tour saw us, sadly, leave the picturesque home of Doc Martin for the equally as stunning family holiday home of Agatha Christie, The Greenway Estates. Aside from the estate being […]
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The podcast will take a deep dive into the history of the hit television show while discussing the eternal question of how such a quaint county in England can be host to such a staggering death toll.
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By the mid-’60s, the British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon that had taken America by storm. So much so that even popular TV sitcoms wanted to join in the fun. Often mistaken for another British singing duo, Peter & Gordon, Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde, aka Chad & Jeremy, made the leap to the small […]
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Sadly, this seems to be a daily occurance these days. Angela Thorne, a name you may not immediately be familiar with but you and millions of other British comedy fans on both side of the pond will definitely know her work, has passed away at the age of 84. Probably best remembered for her role […]
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Fans of Antiques Roadshow and virtually any British mystery, drama or comedy will definitely want to read on. The celebrity spin-off version of Antiques Road Trip sees two antique experts paired up with celebrity guests in classic cars as they scour for antiques on a road trip around the country. With 11 series and over 200 episodes in […]
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For fans of Midsomer Murders and Father Brown, you know how difficult it is to survive life in a small English village. With a overall body count expected to rise about 400 during filming of the 25th series of the extraordinarily popular British drama, Dorchester-on-Thames was the next stop on the KERA British Telly Tour this week. Fortunately, I […]
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As your head hit the pillow Saturday evening, Tellyspotting had begun the nine hour trek to London to begin the 2022 Great British Telly Tour courtesy of KERA and Transcendent Travel. Overall, a pretty nondescript flight which, these days, is a very good thing. The highlight, oddly, was when the pilot again pointed out that we were […]
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Taking a page out of the Midsomer Murders 25th anniversary playbook, Silent Witness is celebrating its own 25th by bringing back original series star, Amanda Burton. Burton led the series for its first eight seasons as forensic pathologist Sam Ryan before Emilia Fox took over as Dr. Nikki Alexander, as part of the forensic pathology team at the Lyell […]
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In this increasingly unfortunate 21st century world of ‘one and done’ mysteries that we all seem to live in these days, Midsomer Murders continues to buck the system and is now the UK’s longest-running contemporary detective drama, having aired on ITV since 1997 with 22 series and 132 episodes. The series is based on the Chief Inspector Barnaby crime-novel […]
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