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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Helen says, “Don’t do anything rash.” Be warned — there is plenty of rashness ahead.
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In the final episode of Inspector Ellis, a new unsolved case sends Ellis and her bagman, Chet Harper, to Brindleton. Newlyweds Rachel (Jade Matthew) and Oz Hoffman (Tama Matheson) were last seen stopping in to see her father, Gerry Rees-Mortimer (Michael Simkins), before driving off to camp in a
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Back at the titular Howards End, the Wilcox children throw tantrums about motivations and sincerity.
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After last week’s introduction to the formula, Inspector Ellis’ second episode opens with the titular detective and her bagman, DS Chet Harper, summoned to Callorwell Police Station in England’s picturesque Peak Region. Awaiting them is suspected drug dealer Carla Duffy (Orla Charlton), gleefully watching the clock tick down;
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The titular Howards End is a house; much like the titular Downton Abbey, it functions as a character in its own right
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Until I Kill You’s first half left off with John Sweeney having fled the country and disappeared, though he’s still sending the cops postcards from random cities like Berlin, taunting them for letting him escape. But he’s not gone for long, returning to England under a false
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BritBox’s newest true crime series, Until I Kill You, is a harrowing and terrifying drama. Adapted by Nick Stevens (The Pembrokeshire Murders) from Delia Balmer’s book Living With a Serial Killer and directed by Julia Ford (The Bay), the series chronicles Balmer’s years-long journey encountering a
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Acorn TV’s new three-part series Inspector Ellis (Ellis in the UK) challenges our preconceptions of a female detective. DCI Ellis (Sharon D Clarke) is a Black woman, no longer young, whose long black coat and brightly colored scarf are a statement of strength and power. She is neither
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The final episode of the second season of Ridley opens as the search for missing Tara Dunning brings Ridley and Carol to speak once again to Tara’s husband, Rob, revealing the parts of her life she was keeping from him. Understandably upset and angry that Tara didn’t confide