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It is rare for a franchise to conclude in the 21st century, when the landscape is heavily marked by reboots, revivals, and reimaginings of older titles. It's not just shows like The Forsytes remaking The Forsyte Saga for a new century, or boyish comedy All Creatures Great &
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There is something deeply satisfying about seeing a show you've been obsessively following since it was announced, and after two years of emailing around to PBS asking if public broadcasting is picking up, finally, FINALLY, someone says yes. It's even better when that show is one
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There’s something so comforting about a beloved star headlining a TV show. Especially when it’s been a while since they’ve taken center stage. Think Kathy Bates on Matlock; viewers are rooting for them and, by extension, their series to succeed. That feeling is even more apparent when
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It probably says a lot about our culture that the most successful female director in 2025 is one known for making super hardcore war films. American director Kathryn Bigelow became the only woman to ever win an Academy Award for directing with The Hurt Locker, a movie based on the
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It's been two years since Unforgotten last graced PBS with Season 5; however, Masterpiece's super-popular mystery series has never been a show to stand on ceremony or provide a lot of table setting to get viewers up to speed. That might be because our leads, DI
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What a wonderful late-summer treat to dip back into a mystery with some of the most charming amateur detectives on Masterpiece. Judith Potts (Samantha Bond), Becks (Cora Horgan), and Suzie (Jo Martin), aka The Marlow Murder Club, are back on the case for Season 2 in "Death Comes To
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Sometimes, after a tragedy, people regress into old habits and comfortable personas. After years of a personality shaped by PTSD, Professor T’s Jasper Tempest (Ben Miller) reverts to the solace of his OCD routines in Season 4’s premiere, “Overboard,” following the death of the series' other main
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In Netflix’s Hostage, Abigail Dalton (Suranne Jones) is eight months into her first term as Prime Minister, and there’s a severe shortage of cancer drugs all across the United Kingdom. As the leader of the opposition tells us in a House of Commons address, she bolstered the flagging
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The Welsh Renaissance in the U.K. continues apace. Not every series funded by BBC Cymru and the Welsh Government is being made in dual languages (yet). Still, the number of Welsh writers and the presence of Welsh stars headlining regular BBC TV series have grown exponentially. Case in point,
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The latest addition to BritBox’s crime drama lineup, the big-hearted thriller Code of Silence, has become one of the streaming service's biggest series to date. It follows Alison, played by Rose Ayling-Ellis (Ludwig), a young deaf woman who gets swept up in a dangerous investigation because she’
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Filming is currently taking place on the highly anticipated second season of Hulu's Rivals, the addictive soap based on the popular Rutshire Chronicles novels by Dame Jilly Cooper. The throwback-style 1980s drama was so successful in its first outing that Season 2 landed an additional four-episode order, making
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The Toronto International Film Festival, affectionately known as TIFF, is the Johnny-Come-Lately of the Film Festival circuit. Unlike Berlin, Venice, or Cannes, Toronto only started hosting film festivals in the 1970s, around the same time as Sundance. While some Film Festivals are gearing up for their centenary in the next