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Posted October 24, 2024 - No Comment

KERA celebrates 50 years of Monty Python with screening of ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ at the Texas Theatre — Nov 13!

The legend of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had its American beginning on KERA/Dallas as part of one seemingly uneventful Sunday evening 50 years ago this past month. To celebrate, KERA will host an evening that will potentially set cinema back some 900 years with a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Wednesday, November 13 at 7:00p at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff.

Posted October 5, 2024 - No Comment

John Cleese remembers the late, great Graham Chapman in 1989 eulogy.

Graham Chapman, one of the original founding members of the comedy troupe, Monty Python, passed away 35 years ago, Friday on October 4, 1989 at age 48. Thankfully, the comedy world was all the greater as Chapman ultimately turned down a career as a doctor to be a comedian.

Posted September 27, 2024 - No Comment

R.I.P. Dame Maggie Smith

Dame Maggie Smith has passed away at the young age of 89. While The Dowager Countess did not know what a weekend was, there will be no weekend without her tomorrow. There are no words. RIP Dame Maggie Smith.

Posted September 19, 2024 - No Comment

‘Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs Doyle’ headed to PBS this December!

Lucy Worsley Holmes vs Doyle. Photo: BBC Studios/PBS Unfortunately, it’s not a new series of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman but, for my money, it’s the next best thing as the brilliant Lucy Worsley will tackle the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and his literary creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an upcoming 3-part documentary […]

Posted September 12, 2024 - No Comment

Masterpiece announces new ‘Maigret’ adaptation on PBS

Photo courtesy: PBS Masterpiece and Playground Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, the first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector (Police Judiciaire detective Commissaire) Jules Maigret has gone into production in Budapest which, once again, doubles for post-WWII France. According to Masterpiece and Playground, the Golden Globe […]

Posted August 20, 2024 - No Comment

First look at All Creatures Great and Small in advance of January 2025 premiere!

With temps in Texas set to hit a high of 106 today and remain there for much of the rest of the week, many people have visions of January 2025 dancing in their head at the moment. But, with the new series of All Creatures Great and Small set to premiere on PBS beginning in January 2025, we now have another reason to dream of cooler temps and great telly to enjoy!

Posted June 11, 2024 - No Comment

R.I.P. Harold Snoad, producer/director, ‘Keeping Up Appearances’

Harold Snoad, long-time sitcom producer and director for the BBC passed away 2 June at the age of 88. Best known for Keeping Up Appearances, it was Snoad who cast Dame Patricia Routledge in the lead role, explaining: “I wanted the character of Hyacinth to be a sort of stately galleon. I didn’t want somebody lightweight, […]

Posted May 2, 2024 - No Comment

‘The Forsyte Saga’ headed to Masterpiece on PBS

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 […]

Posted April 8, 2024 - No Comment

Pre-‘Monty Python’ sketch, thought ‘ceased to be’, discovered merely stunned after 50 years!

Four thought to be lost episodes of The Complete and Utter History of the British Isles, created in 1969 by soon-to-be Pythoners Michael Palin and Terry Jones, have been found by the ITV Archive team as part of a huge project to fully identify every archive asset ITV holds, “The series had been sitting in the ITV vaults […]

Posted April 7, 2024 - No Comment

‘Mr Bates vs. the Post Office’ premieres tonight on PBS!

Beginning tonight, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, another true ‘masterepiece’ heads to PBS Masterpiece on Sunday nights. Based on a true story (known as the British Post Office Scandal), the 4-part Mr Bates vs The Post Office shines a light on a major transgression in the UK justice system and the public and media have […]