As we leave The Big Easy in the Southwest jet’s rear view mirror, this year’s BBC Syndication Showcase was no different than any in recent memory. Nothing but good telly to choose from to bring to public television in the States for 2014. Here are a few of the comedy highlights that many of you […]
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When the BBC recently announced that two Doctor Who episodes that were thought to have been ‘lost’ forever had been found, there was joy not only in Mudville, but across the Doctor Who Nation. Unseen by audiences for some 45 years since their original broadcasts in 1967-68, “The Web of Fear” and “The Enemy of […]
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As many of you know if you’ve been either a regular or even a casual follower of Tellyspotting over the past 4+ years, October is the annual BBC Syndication Showcase. Each year, public television programming representatives descend upon New Orleans to sit in a hotel conference room for two days screening non-stop the best of […]
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As we reported earlier this summer, Sir David Suchet will reprise his iconic role as the world famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, for the very last time on Wednesday, 23 October at 9:00pm on ITV1. Wednesdays broadcast will begin the completion of Sir David’s brilliant work in bringing Agatha Christie’s Poirot to life which began […]
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It’s been what can easily be described as a roller coaster week for Downton Abbey. Still riding the incredible 3+ year pop-culture high in the States as viewers try to avoid all forms of social media and eagerly await the series 4 PBS premiere on January 5, 2014, some UK viewers are bordering on outrage […]
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You know who you are. You’ve seen every episode of the first three series of the mega-hit British period drama, Downton Abbey. You own a ‘Free Bates’ t-shirt. You’re feeling pretty good about the fact that you know that the labrador dogs of Downton Abbey go by the name of Pharaoh and Isis. Well, there […]
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In a yet another ‘Christmas comes early’ moment for British telly lovers, the Call the Midwife Christmas Special will be coming stateside to PBS on Sunday, December 29, shortly after BBC One viewers experience the joy of the inhabitants of Nonnatus House. During a break from filming, Chummy is being…Chummy, or Miranda Hart, hard to […]
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Christmas has, once again, arrived in October. Arkwright’s Grocery may have closed in 1985, but, word is, it will re-open this Christmas. Titled Still Open All Hours
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Christmas has came early for Hebburn creator Jason Cook recently when 11-year-old twins Serena and Lauren Short and their pal Katie Luke, 13, found a top secret stack of papers lying on the ground near Hebburn Cricket Club this past week. The top secret script included storylines for the eagerly-awaited Hebburn holiday special. In […]
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I guess when the track record of remaking British telly brilliance by American television networks is what it is for as far as the eye can see, nothing surprises you with regards to what gets remade and what lengths producers will go to to trick it up to try and attract an audience. The […]
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