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It is the first of May 2024, and for the first time in maybe.... ever(?) streaming is starting to settle out. Those streaming services that will survive are pulling away from the pack. Those who will not survive are becoming obvious due to collapse or showing deeply ugly signs of
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You don’t hear much about the dissolution of the monasteries these days, but you certainly do hear about Anthony Boyle. Co-starring in his third stylish television project of 2024, the Irish actor may have turned more heads in Masters of the Air and Manhunt, but his supporting role as
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When the Walt Disney Company first launched Disney+ in November 2019, it famously said it was throwing open the doors to the "Disney vault" and letting out all those movies and TV series that had been tucked away for generations, only allowing occasional releases. The problem, of course,
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The first signs of a new remake of The Forsyte Saga appeared on production listings at the beginning of April 2024. While there had been rumors before about the series returning to television, the pre-production announcements were the first sign the project was getting off the ground, with Mammoth Productions
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For viewers who aren't PBS Passport members, there's still one more episode of Call the Midwife Season 13 left to go. However, that hasn't stopped Neal Street Productions from getting on with Season 14 across the pond, with filming for the next season officially
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With the cancelation of Gentleman Jack after Season 2 in 2022 and a more family-friendly direction for Disney+'s Renegade Nell, Sally Wainwright was all too eager to get back to her more typical R-rated fare after the final season of Happy Valley aired in the early part of
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Success begets success, and the Harlan Coben adaptations at Netflix have been freakishly successful. Coben’s novels, thrillers initially set in America but which Netflix smartly recentered in the U.K. and various European countries, have become one of the streamer’s most dependable hits that the streamer makes on
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In 2022, the BBC landed a trio of unexpected gritty hits about the realities of crime and law enforcement. Time, originally a stand-alone miniseries starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, brought in ratings so high that it was turned into an anthology series, the second season of which recently aired
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Guilt’s Season 3 premiere catches up with self-serving, shady Max McCall (Mark Bonnar) a year after setting up mobster Roy Lynch (Stuart Bowman) to be killed and escaping Edinburgh. Max and his dopey brother Jake (Jamie Sives) live above Jake’s bar in Chicago. Even farther from the cushy
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Mr. Bates (Toby Jones) and the subpostmasters' alliance finally got their day in court in the finale episode of Mr Bates vs the Post Office. While it was a big step forward, it wasn't the resounding victory you'd expect from a show that set Downton
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It's another week of Call the Midwife Season 13, and I am back with another rant about Matthew (Olly Rix). Every time he has the opportunity to redeem himself, he chooses to be self-centered or arrogant, or in this case, both. He finally clued Trixie (Helen George) into
Lucy Worsley
Popular historian Lucy Worsley’s first TV appearance was in 2009 for the documentary Inside the Body of Henry VIII, joining a medical doctor and a biographer in a special that examined the king’s physical condition on the 500th anniversary of his ascension to the throne. Worsley commented that