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.
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The third episode of All Creatures Great and Small’s fifth season is titled “Homecoming,” and with good reason. In addition to bringing back a beloved character, this episode finally achieves the right mix of clever pacing, tenderness, and humor that is All Creatures at its very best. The war
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David Attenborough’s new series, Planet Earth: Asia (simply titled Asia in the U.K.), is a thrilling, gorgeous paean to the earth’s largest continent. Four years in the making, Asia explores the continent in depth for the first time, including its thousands of miles of coastline, three oceans,
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All Creatures Great & Small returns just as Audrey Hall finishes her first round as a Blackout Warden under the guidance of Mr. Bosworth. But one household has a light visible; unfortunately, it’s Skeldale House. Siegfried, waiting for Audrey’s return, is roundly scolded by Mr. Bosworth, who takes
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The Season 5 premiere of All Creatures Great & Small delves into the everyday life of wartime Darrowby in 1941. For the inhabitants of Skeldale House, who always seem to be busy, life has become more complicated, with rationing and wartime restrictions, plus the underlying worry about loved ones far
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All Creatures Great & Small will return to our screens in January 2025 with Season 5. Are you ready? Put on the kettle and bring out the scones! Based on the immensely popular books of James Herriot, the pen name of Yorkshire veterinarian J. Alf Wight, the BBC originally debuted
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A Christmas special* for Acorn TV’s The Chelsea Detective? Well, why not? DI Max Arnold (Adrian Scarborough), the genial, sharp-witted detective of the title — short, ginger, dyslexic — is an appealing figure. He’s so law-abiding he makes hand signals from his bike even when no other traffic is visible.
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The final mystery of Dalgliesh Season 3, “Devices and Desires,” takes us to a community dominated by a nuclear power facility where a serial murderer, known as “The Whistler,” is targeting female employees. The episode opens with a young woman, Vivienne Mitchell (Holly Demaine), leaving a party; she narrowly misses
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Dalgliesh’s second case of Season 3, “Cover Her Face,” opens on a thunderstorm; one has rained out a village fete, which set up shop at the Mehta family’s Essex estate. Krishna Mehta (Parth Thakerar), a surgical registrar at a London hospital destined for a prestigious career, is annoyed
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Season 3 of Dalgliesh opens with a two-part adaptation of the P.D. James novel Death in Holy Orders. The opening installments have everything we love about this series — a picturesque, remote setting inhabited by a cast of eccentrics at each others’ throats in a Gothic revival ecclesiastical building. St.
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When Dalgliesh first debuted with Bertie Carvel (The Crown) as P. D. James’s titular poet-detective, it was not the first serialization of James’s novels. Roy Marsden starred in the original 1980/90s adaptation, followed by Martin Shaw, who starred in a different version in the early aughts. (Both
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Still reeling over the all-points collision of the Schlegels, the Wilcoxes, and the Basts in Howards End? Brace yourself; there’s more coming in the finale, along with some melodrama, coincidences, toxic masculinity, and inexplicable decisions. (In other words, business as usual.) We last saw Margaret writing a letter, which
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Last week’s episode of Howards End ended with the Schlegels’ vote to take Wilcox’s London house if it is suitable. This week begins with his arrival to drive Margaret there. As she leaves, Helen says, “Don’t do anything rash.” Be warned — there is plenty of rashness ahead.