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The Great British Baking Show has had a rocky couple of seasons. After audiences overlooked the growing boy energy in the tent during the pandemic, grateful that the show was continuing at all, the hosting team of Noel Fielding & Matt Lucas was finally deemed unworkable after Season 13'
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Netflix's The Diplomat is a far better series than it has any right to be due entirely to the spectacular casting. The original premise is that the new American ambassador to the U.K. struggles to keep "the special relationship" between the two countries stable as
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World War II films seem to proliferate every time you turn around, especially since 2016. That was the year the NSA released a vast treasure trove of previously classified documents detailing many lesser-known missions, including the feats of derring-do undertaken by the spy community, of which writer Ian Fleming was
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The first official images of Bridgerton Season 4's leading couple, Benedict and Sophie, have been released to mark the official start of filming for the series. Luke Thompson (Dunkirk), who has starred as Benedict Bridgerton since the show's inaugural season, finally shuffles to the top after
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Van der Valk is back for another season, so get out your black knit sweaters, pop up the collar on your coat, and find some dreary water to contemplate murder clues. The titular detective (Marc Warren) is back in Amsterdam for Season 4 and is already getting his hands dirty
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Following her near-death in the finale of Magpie Murders, editor-turned-amateur detective Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) has left London for the gorgeous vistas of Crete in Moonflower Murders, where she is running a hotel with her longtime boyfriend Andreas (Alexandros Logothetis). But there’s trouble in paradise: running a hotel is
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Season 2 of Ridley is here, starring Adrian Dunbar as troubled cop Alex Ridley, whose dream of a peaceful retirement was shattered by the murders of his wife and daughter. Murder, in a sense, saved his sanity when his successor, DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh), requested in Season 1 that
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Robert James-Collier is one of the few Downton Abbey actors who was a relative newcomer. He stuck it out for the series' full run and all the movies but has yet to fully break out beyond his role of the LGBTQ+ butler. Part of this stems from his being
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You may best know prolific stage and screen actor Adjoa Andoh from her role as a presiding member of Bridgerton’s ton, but offscreen, she’s more like British acting royalty. Born in 1963 and raised as the only Black girl in her small southern England town, Andoh’s life
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The history of the British aristocracy is rife with people who could politely be called "eccentrics". Whether it's the access to copious sums of cash that helps them lose touch with reality or the centuries of intermarriage between a handful of wealthy and titled families, the
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Certain performers are so good at their craft that it would be enjoyable to watch them do pretty much anything, including reading the phone book, as the old saying goes. A bit of cultural translation for the youth among us: Once, not so very long ago, we literally printed everyone&
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There's a certain type of British A-list actor who finds themselves going through an awards bait phase. Benedict Cumberbatch, for example, made a string of biopic films in the mid-2010s, all of which were very obviously geared toward garnering Academy Award nominations. Barry Keoghan has seemingly entered that