PBS
When people think of period dramas, they often think of something very specific: lavish stories set in Jolly Olde England, usually centered around the murderous whims of King Henry VIII, the generally tragic lives of his wives who deserved better, or the triumphal reign of his second daughter, Elizabeth. And
Movies
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are two of the biggest actors working today — and now they're finally going to work together. (Or, at least, work together properly.) The prestige duo are joining forces for The Roses, a reimagining of the 1989 dark comedy The War of the Roses.
Netflix
You don't have to be in the entertainment industry to realize that creating television can be an odd business. This has been especially true since 2013, when the streaming revolution caused executives to lose their collective heads and blow up a model that had been working for 50
BBC
There are few British TV classic dramas more associated with the BBC and PBS' Masterpiece than The Forsyte Saga. The first miniseries adaptation of John Galsworthy's early 1900s era novels of the same name and the trilogy follow-up, A Modern Comedy, aired in 1967 on BBC
Netflix
There isn't exactly a shortage of superhero content in our pop culture. There's so much it's an open question whether or not the subgenre still has anything worthwhile to say, or if audiences are still interested. (The general Marvel malaise post-Avengers: Endgame hasn&
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April has rolled in, and spring is officially here. Due to the yearly shifts in the calendar, Easter Monday and April Fools Day are one and the same, so there's no week off from debuts for holidays and school breaks. Instead, this month sees entire streaming services sitting
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There's rarely been a better time to be a Doctor Who fan than right now. The franchise is as successful as it's ever been, riding the high of a wildly popular sixtieth-anniversary outing last Fall that saw the return of the most popular actor of
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Suit up, friends, it’s time for the wedding of the century: Alice and… (checks notes) some poor schmo named Danny (Tommy McDonnell). It’s two years later in the world of Alice & Jack, after she declared herself too wounded for love and trounced Jack’s foolish heart. An
PBS
The third episode of Nolly is the best episode of the series. It is the most open and reflective of the trio, focusing on themes like the significance of the stories we tell ourselves; the value of maintaining good friendships across time and space; the sadness of realizing that you
PBS
After two weeks of relatively happy endings, Call the Midwife decided to put us through it in week three. We settled to have a good time with our favorite midwives and nurses and instead had our hearts in our throats for the majority of the episode. Luckily, we did not
Actors and Actresses
British actor Michael Fassbender was actually born in Heidelberg, Germany; his father, Josef, was German, and his mother, Adele, an Irish woman originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland. Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in southwest Ireland, where his family moved when he was
BritBox
For a show that won critical acclaim in the UK, Jimmy McGovern’s (Broken) BBC prison drama Time flew largely under the radar in the US when it dropped on BritBox in 2021. Luckily, a second season of the anthology series is giving the stunning show a new lease on