The BBC confirmed Friday that the nuns of Nonnatus House will return for another series in 2015. This is brilliant news as the sun sets on Poplar with the final episode of series 3 airing Sunday, 9 March on BBC One. The hit period drama series which is set in London’s East End will dive […]
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Posted January 16, 2014 -
While the U.S. counts down the hours until the return of Sherlock on Sunday, January 19, the UK has its own reasons to settle in for some great telly following this week’s traditional Sunday roast. Call the Midwife, series 3, returns Sunday following the mega-popular Christmas Day special which saw Shelagh marry Doc Turner and, […]
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Posted December 8, 2013 -
We must have all been good this year given the fact that we are in for some good telly in the coming weeks. If the news of the Downton Abbey Christmas Special, the Christmas Day Sherlock mini-episode broadcast or the New Years Day premiere of Sherlock 3 on BBC One wasn’t enough, we now get […]
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Who better to follow the ‘Ladies of Downton’ at the Television Critic’s Association summer meet-up in LA but Camilla Cholmeley-Browne, a.k.a. Chummy, a.k.a. Miranda Hart. Since the series is now in production on series 3, saying that it’s just like riding a bike takes on a different meaning to Hart, who plays the clumsy and […]
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There are times you definitely don’t want to know how the sausage is made. Going behind-the-scenes with the BBC’s most popular drama series, Call the Midwife, starring Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Cliff Parisi, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris and Judy Parfitt, however, is definitely not one of those times. While hitting on all the right cylinders […]
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Posted February 13, 2013 -
Controller of BBC Drama, Ben Stephenson said it all earlier this week at a meeting to announce a range of new drama commissions for 2013-2014: “Drama and the BBC are inseparable – it is written through the BBC like a stick of rock. No other broadcaster in the world has drama so firmly in its […]
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BBC mega-hit, Call the Midwife has due date of September 30 on PBS When Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) first arrives in London’s East End, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty or indeed, life itself. Raised in the wealthy English countryside, she’s previously spent time in Paris and could have chosen any career. But she chose […]
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For fans of British telly, the first day of the PBS annual meeting in Denver could easily be the best given the announcement by the network that they have acquired the broadcast rights to the mega-BBC drama hit, Call the Midwife, which stars Vanessa Redgrave, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris and Jessica Raine. Fans of the […]
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