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Since 2015, PBS' Summer of Mysteries has been headlined by two hit series headlined by two white guys: Grantchester and Endeavour. Whatever happens for the summer of 2024, that won't be the case, as the current lead of Grantchester, Tom Brittney, is out the door, due to
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The Jewish holiday of Passover, one of the most important in the Hebrew calendar, begins at sundown on Monday, April 22, 2024. The holiday comes extra late this year and is separated from Easter for once due to the vagaries of the lunar calendar (plus the need for the Jewish
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BritBox announced last month that the good Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson) would return for Season 3 of Sister Boniface Mysteries in April, as the most popular of the streaming service's spinoffs of long-running BBC series gears up for another round of mysteries. But it wasn't until
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Brace yourselves: Episode 4 was the carrot after many sticks, but Episode 5 of Alice & Jack punishes us for letting our guard down. For a show that consistently contains more dialogue than plot, the last third of this episode pushes the limits of just how much nonsense an audience
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In every movie about a big corruption or scandal there's always a scene where the trepid investigator goes, "This goes so much deeper than we thought." In Erin Brockovich, it's when Julia Roberts realizes that the Hinkley water contamination affected almost everyone who worked
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Normally, a day at the seaside would sound lovely. I was certainly looking forward to a nice beach day this week on Call the Midwife, but it was pure naiveté to believe that our favorite Poplar townspeople could enjoy some ice cream, sun, and sand castle building without any major
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McDonald & Dodds is one of the lesser-known British police procedurals on this side of the pond, which is a shame because it has everything going for it. The formulaic premise, a streetwise former Metropolitan Police investigator arrives in a picturesque tourist town to head up the Criminal Investigation Department,
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A new face is set to board the TARDIS for Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa’s second season of Doctor Who. Varada Sethu has been tapped to join the cast as a second companion alongside Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday. Sethu played Cinta in Disney+’s Star Wars series Andor, and
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Popular crime drama My Life Is Murder Season 1 only just found its way to PBS Passport for new fans to discover the series, but for those who have been watching since it debuted in 2019, there's good news about new episodes. Season 4 finally has a release
UKTV/Alibi
It is a truth universally acknowledged that in the world of British drama, you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to solve crime. No, really; in many of the U.K.'s popular dramas, you don't need to be trained as a detective or honestly
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Awards season may have ended for film, but for live theater and television, the season is hitting the main event, as those disciplines still function on seasons that begin in the summer and end in the spring. While the Emmys will wait until the fall to hand out statues, late
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I'm not here to upset anybody, but I'd like to point out that it's been almost a decade since the original six-part limited series The Night Manager originally aired on BBC One in February 2016. Based on the John Le Carre novel of the