Heads up, Australia, the Honourable Miss Phryne (pronounced Fry-nee) Fisher returns for series three beginning Friday, 8 May on ABC. Not to worry, America, series 3 is headed to public television stations in the not-too-distant future. While Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries may not make you immediately abdicate your allegiance to Sherlock or forget about James Bond, […]
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Now that we’ve thrown a bit of a bone to the Downton Abbey-Nation with yesterday’s post about the cast getting together for initial read-throughs of the final series scripts, it’s time to turn our attention to Sherlock! It is only fitting, and fair, that we bring you news from the production set of the forthcoming […]
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It’s been far too long since we left the world of Endeavour Morse. So many questions remained unanswered after the end of series 2 of Endeavour. “Live in the shadows long enough, you forget the sun.” When we last saw Endeavour Morse, viewers witnessed a falsely accused Morse, played by Shaun Evans, isolated and alone languishing […]
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Now that we are post-Downton Abbey, fans of Sherlock finally have some company for their mutual separation anxiety meetings. From an American perspective, we’re looking at approximately nine months before they both return to our collective lives. With Sherlock looking at an early 2016 return for their fourth series (not counting the proposed Christmas ‘special’ that will take Sherlock […]
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With series 3 filming now complete, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is set to return in 2015 on ABC in Australia and on a number of public television stations in America. Armed with her pearl-handled pistol and, let’s just say, a rather adventurous outlook on life for a woman of that era, Essie Davis returns as the […]
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The good news is the we are under a double-digit number of months away from the long-awaited, highly-anticipated Sherlock special that is tentatively penciled in for Christmas 2015 on BBC One and PBS. Bad news is that we are still roughly 9 months out from seeing co-creators/writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss get the band […]
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As Tellyspotting landed in the UK Friday morning, there was a bit of ‘Joy in Mudville’ news already waiting for us to report on as ITV announced that Rowan Atkinson, the former star of Blackadder and Mr Bean, is making a return to television to play Belgian author Georges Simenon’s pipe-smoking policeman, Jules Maigret, in […]
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With Doc Martin on their customary 18-24 month production hiatus, those that are in need of a Martin Clunes fix need look no further than the upcoming ITV drama, Arthur and George. Airing in March on ITV and then coming to PBS’ Masterpiece this Fall, Arthur and George showcases the talents of Martin Clunes, who […]
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Ok, Sherlock-Nation, the game is ‘officially’ on! It has been far too long since that fateful day in January 2014 and the last broadcast of series 3 of Sherlock. Admittedly, there has been very little that has eased the separation anxiety that has dominated Sherlock fans’ mind palaces. A number of public television stations in the […]
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It’s a toss-up as to who I would rather pay good money to see simply read a phone book. Sir Ian McKellen or Bill Nighy. Sir Ian may have just tipped the scales a bit in his favor yesterday with the fact that he is using social media and posting video on his official Facebook […]
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