Writer Janet Mullany is from England, drinks a lot of tea, and likes Jane Austen, reading, and gasping in shock at costumes in historical TV dramas. Her household near Washington DC includes a badly-behaved cat about whom she frequently boasts.
Harry Wild
In this week’s pair of Harry Wild episodes, a social event gets messy, and Harry is arrested for murder while she tries to investigate a sexual predator. Then she, her sidekick Fergus, and her granddaughter Lola are trapped in a pub where a kidnapping attempt becomes murder, and she
Harry Wild
Acorn TV’s Harry Wild continues as Harry and her sidekick Fergus are convinced the body of a dead man is being used to cover up wrongdoing, and her literary talents are challenged by a serial killer who likes to provide minimal clues. But things get serious when their families
Harry Wild
Acorn TV's newest original series Harry Wild is an Irish mystery set in Dublin that is both fast-moving and fun. Retiree Harry Wild and her teenage sidekick Fergus Reid make a great crime-solving team, and star Jane Seymour’s portrayal of a strong, aging woman who
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Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s third novel to be published, and if you’ve swooned over her other books, you may find this one ... difficult. Her contemporary readers didn’t seem particularly bothered by the change of tone. After all, it was still much better than many books produced
The Chelsea Detective
The final episode of Acorn TV's The Chelsea Detective opens as murder victim Oliver Cowie (Clarence Smith), Head of Humanities at the elite International School of Chelsea, leaves work for the day. He has a quick exchange with fellow teacher Saskia Turner (Pippa Nixon) that indicates some sort
The Chelsea Detective
For the third and fourth episodes of Acorn TV’s The Chelsea Detective, director Darcia Martin and writer Liz Lake take over, but the format—leisurely plots, a crowd of likely suspects. and red herrings by the dozen—remains unchanged. That said, it’s great to see Max (Adrian Scarborough)
The Chelsea Detective
In the opening episode of Acorn TV’s The Chelsea Detective, we saw how DI Max Arnold’s persistence, powers of observation, and intuition serve him well on a murder case but don’t help at all when it comes to his relationship with his ex-partner Astrid. Following the
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago.
The Chelsea Detective
As the name implies, Acorn TV's The Chelsea Detective is set in the Borough of Chelsea, a Thames-side area in west London that is now associated with elite billionaires, who are the only ones who can afford the area’s historic houses. But although the setting and
BBC
In late January, British culture secretary Nadine Dorries announced that the BBC License Fee would be frozen at £159 for the next two years. The statement, made in the tabloid (and right-wing) The Daily Mail, was suspected of having been made on a Sunday to distract the public from
All Creatures Great and Small
As the Season 2 finale of All Creatures Great and Small opens, it's the day before Christmas, Skeldale House is beautifully decorated, and everything is ready for the annual party Siegfried throws for friends and clients. But early in the morning, James Herriot is rudely awakened by a
All Creatures Great and Small
Episode 6 of All Creatures Great and Small, originally the finale of Season 2 (PBS airs the 2021 Christmas special as Episode 7), begins with James and Helen in line at their local movie theater, waiting for the projectionist to turn up. He arrives on a bicycle, the line shuffles