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The second episode of Professor T’s third season features a clever opener that intercuts between Jasper approaching the therapy room, where he finds his mother Adelaide waiting instead of Dr. Goldberg, and the murder of the week, with an employee seeing a young bride floating dead in a hotel
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When Orphan Black premiered in 2013, it had such a wow factor. The drama about genetically identical human clones was immediately engaging and unlike anything on TV at the time. But what gave the series that extra oomph was star Tatiana Maslany’s incredible performance, where she played no less
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Jenna Coleman is about to officially enter her detective era. The former Doctor Who star is hardly the first actor to bounce from traveling on cosmic adventures in the TARDIS to tackling crime in the gritty streets of London (or some other British city). Lots of them have done it,
Actors and Actresses
Olivia Cooke, born in 1993 in Manchester, was the sort of child who liked to put on performances in the front garden with her friends. At the age of eight, she joined the Oldham Theatre Workshop, an after-school drama program in her hometown, whose alumni included Anna Friel and Suranne
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The first Russell T. Davies era of Doctor Who contained several consistent hallmarks: Fiesty companions who prove ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things; complex supporting characters with depth and agency; deep cuts from classic lore; and twisty plots that tended to make almost no sense at all from
Movies
It looks like an absolute nightmare being married to King Henry VIII, not just because of the statistical likelihood of death or national humiliation, but because even when Henry was dying of ulcerated infection, you could still be considered a dangerous, threat-to-the-crown liability. Of all the fates experienced by Henry
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When the cast list for The Night Manager Season 2 was announced at the beginning of June 2024, it was pretty noticeable that only one name from the show's first season, which aired in 2016, was listed on the roster: Tom Hiddleston. Obviously, he was a requirement for
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Period dramas can run the gamut when it comes to scope, tone, and subject. However, there are a handful that are continually held up as examples of the best of what the genre can be and do: Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth'
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Doctor Who’s new reboot era has garnered buzz in cultural circles for many “firsts” in LGBTQ+ representation. So far, there’s been the first gay Doctor, the first gay kiss in Doctor Who, the first transgender actor, the first transgender character, and so on. All of these have happened,
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Filming for Patience, the highly anticipated English-language remake of the fan-favorite French series Astrid (Astrid et Raphaëlle), has just completed in the U.K., and with the end of filming comes the announcement that a distributor on that side of the pond has signed on to air the series. The
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With its fourth season premiering stateside in mid-June 2024, Acorn TV’s hit series My Life Is Murder is back for another round of cozy crimes down under. The series stars Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess) as retired police detective Alexa Crowe, a whip-smart and fearless powerhouse who assists the
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One of the best things about Doctor Who, as a series, is its willingness to revisit, reimagine, and interrogate its own long-running history. For all that showrunner Russell T. Davies has insisted this latest incarnation of the sci-fi classic, with its new home on Disney+ and the bigger budget to