While there are still 6 episodes remaining in the final series of Downton Abbey, PBS has already planned out your Sunday nights television viewing beginning in January ’17 when the mega-hit British period drama is in our collective rearview mirrors. Jenna Coleman, who has spent the last several years jetting around the galaxy in a blue police […]
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With the 16 February shuttering of what ‘we call’ BBC3, the powers that be have unveiled a new logo that all-too closely resembles a redesign of the BBC logo created in the BBC parody comedy series, W1A, where a ‘new 21st century look’ was pitched to the Corporation by Jessica Hynes’ nightmarish Head of Brand Siobhan Sharpe. The […]
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While we are still months away from being able to watch Captain Ross Poldark ride his horse up and down the Cornish coastline, Aidan Turner fans should take particular care to cancel any and all Boxing Day plans this year. The Poldark actor is set to play “mercenary” Philip Lombard, one of ten strangers left on […]
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Judging by the excessive number of emails I’m getting from the overly greedy retailers letting me know that, supposedly, ‘Black Friday’ has already begun even though it was only Monday, it’s never to early to think about Christmas…for the right reasons. This rings true, especially for the true believers (you know who you are) who […]
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From Father Brown to Downton Abbey to Poldark, it’s exciting to dig deep into the physical production of the series beyond the actors ability to create on-screen brilliance to learn from the art directors, the costume designers and the set directors to understand the herculean effort as to how each goes about his or her task of creating the perfect time […]
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With Downton Abbey coming to a close (don’t panic if you’re in States, you still have January 2016 to look forward to!), the final orchestral recordings for the unforgettable music soundtrack were recorded this past Tuesday at London’s Abbey Road Studios. Thanks to the fact that they live streamed on Periscope for all the world to see […]
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Following a very successful first series on BBC1 and PBS, the much steamier 2015 version of Poldark has begun filming in Cornwall. Unfortunately, popularity does have its downside in the age of social media, cell phones and the Internet. Evidently, the chance of seeing Poldark star Aidan Turner in the flesh seems to be proving a […]
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Depending on what day of the week it was over the last several months, news of an impending Jenna Coleman departure from Doctor Who was either a wild rumor or an as-yet-to-be-verified fact. Truth be told, contrary to conventional wisdom, you can’t always believe everything you read on the Internets. Hard to believe, I know, […]
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In the endless broadcaster search to uncover anything that might find an audience up against the final series of ITV’s Downton Abbey, the BBC will be upping its steamy quotient hoping to capitalize on Poldark-mania with a new television adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover this September. While some critics have already jumped on […]
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With the steamy first season of the 2015 BBC/PBS version of Poldark firmly two weeks to the day into our collective rear-view mirrors, in an attempt to stave off any early signs of Poldark separation anxiety, we found a little gem of an interview with the series historical advisor, Hannah Greig, over at austenprose.com as she spoke with them […]
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