New faces, returning favorites, a will they/won’t they get together story and lots of cute lambs are in store when series 2 of All Creatures Great and Small returns this January on PBS. The most familiar new face will be Patricia Hodge, who will step into the iconic and beloved role of Mrs Pumphrey for series 2.
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As if it wasn’t enough for fans of British drama to be in the middle of the new season of Unforgotten and Professor T and then possess the knowledge that new seasons of Call the Midwife, Grantchester, Baptiste, Endeavour, All Creatures Great and Small, Sanditon, Vera, Shetland, Father Brown, Death in Paradise and Miss Scarlet and the Duke are on […]
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What do Monty Python’s dead parrot and series 4 of Victoria have in common? Like the parrot, unfortunately, according to reports surfacing in Radio Times, The Sun and The Daily Mirror, the Daisy Goodwin period drama starring Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes seems to no longer be resting after being tired out after a long squawk. Apparently, it […]
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One would expect portraying an eccentric forensic criminologist is hard enough but try portraying an eccentric forensic criminologist with OCD who accidentally becomes an advisor to the police. For Ben Miller, it turns out the Worst Week of My Life, Primeval, Death in Paradise star was able to draw on his own experiences with the mental health condition to portray the brilliant yet socially awkward Professor Jasper Teerlinck in Professor T, which premiered last Sunday on PBS.
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Tchéky Karyo returns as retired detective Julien Baptiste when series 2 of Baptiste premieres this Fall on PBS Masterpiece. The long-awaited psychological crime drama was slowed by COVID restrictions earlier this year but returns to BBC One this Sunday. Swapping Amsterdam’s red light district from series 1 for the woody mountains of Hungary for his next case, Baptiste has an uncanny knack for finding the missing.
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If you’re a fan of the PBS series Unforgotten, which series 4 premieres on Sunday night at 9pET/8pCT on PBS, you may or may not be familiar with the early career efforts of series co-star, Sanjeev Bhaskar. Bhaskar, who stars as DI Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan in the popular British crime drama series, has early acting roots in comedy […]
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Quality drama continues to come our way on PBS as David Nicholls’ Us successfully skirted the coronavirus pandemic lockdown and is set to transmit beginning tonight (20 June) and next Sunday at 9:00pET/8:00pCT. Based on the best-selling, critically acclaimed novel of the same name by David Nicholls, Us stars Tom Hollander (Rev, Night Manager, Baptiste, Bohemian Rhapsody), Saskia Reeves […]
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It just keeps getting better from a drama standpoint on PBS as Masterpiece recently announced that the Amsterdam-based series, Van der Valk, has begun filming their second season. Marc Warren (Hustle, Mad Dogs, Beecham House, The Good Wife) reprises his role as Commissaris Piet Van der Valk, and Maimie McCoy (All Creatures Great and Small, Grantchester), Luke Allen-Gale (The Borgias), Elliot Barnes-Worrell […]
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Ridley Road tells the story of Vivien Epstein (Aggi O’Casey), a young Jewish woman who after falling in love with a member of the ‘62 Group’, rejects her comfortable middle-class life in Manchester and joins the fight against fascism in London, risking everything for her beliefs and for the man she loves. As Vivien descends further into the fascist organization her courage and loyalties are challenged.
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For Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky and series star, Mark Rylance, it’s long, long way from the year 1529 and the dismissal of Cardinal Wolsey followed by the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII to 2024 and their new collaborative effort, The Undeclared War. Deadline reports that The Undeclared War takes place in the post-pandemic world […]
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