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Well, friends, it appears that Lana Washington (Vicky McClure) did not take my advice at the end of Trigger Point Season 1 and get a job working at Starbucks. In the six months that have passed since the first season finale, Lana has not been making lattes, catching up on
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Van der Valk continues to operate as one of Masterpiece’s under-the-radar series. The reboot of the Dutch mystery series that aired in the 1970s and was revived in the 1990s has been a solid player, holding down the September slots during the pandemic years. Since 2023, it’s morphed
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BBC Newsnight's 2019 interview with England's Prince Andrew is rightly remembered as one of modern media's greatest trainwrecks. An hour-long conversation in which the prince was grilled about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and questioned about his own relationship with a
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It once looked like Severance would become Apple TV+’s siren’s call to new subscribers, but by the time Season 2 premieres in January 2025, three years will have passed since its first season finale. By contrast, the streamer’s most reliable show, Slow Horses, has consistently delivered a
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Magpie Murders is the brainchild of Anthony Horowitz, the prolific writer known for television titles like Foyle’s War. This tale began as a novel (also penned by Horowitz) and is part of his Susan Ryeland Series. As much a meditation on why we love mystery stories as it is
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It’s tough sometimes for the TV and film industry when one of the world’s most famous British women authors only wrote six books. Jane Austen is so beloved by the British public and readers around the globe that her face is literally on the £10 note. But there
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For all that it's been around for thousands of years at this point, the institution of the Catholic Church is still fascinating to many people. The Church has centuries of tradition behind it, from the colors of the vestments priests wear on particular Sundays to the prayers that
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If it's September, then that can only mean one thing: Christmas is coming. You know it's true, Spooky Season People. Despite your love of Halloween and all things that go bump in the night, retailers are already one foot out the door on pumpkins and well
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Hulu scooped up Siobhan Cullen's delightful comic murder-romp Obituary almost a year ago, in October 2023, just in time for the Halloween season. A semi-satirical take on the "unlikely duo solves endless murders in a tiny little town whose population could never support this much death,"
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When Hotel Portofino premiered on PBS in the summer of 2022, the series had already been greenlit for a second season; by the time Season 2 arrived stateside in the fall of 2023, a third season was not only greenlit, filming had already been completed for some time. Since production
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Given all that has transpired this season, I’m sure none of us thought the third season finale of Hotel Portofino would end on a happy note. But this finale episode, “Masquerades,” was still a tragic punch to the gut. Everything is leading up to the party Bella is having
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Cable networks getting into the original series game at the end of the 1990s was the first death knell for the standard TV season running from September to June; however, September didn't truly lose its status until streaming became the way of the future. Broadcast networks still tried