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The Lesley Manville renaissance is truly upon us, with the Academy Award-nominated actress seemingly in every possible project all at once. (This is not in any way a complaint, for the record.) In just the past handful of years, she's played scheming madam Lydia Quigley in Harlots, the
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Looks like we'll all be having seconds of Julia, the HBO Max drama based on the life of the famous chef, cookbook author, and television personality Julia Child. The streamer announced that it had renewed the comedy series on the eve of its first season finale, promising more
Mystery
It's been almost two years since Endeavour Season 7 aired on PBS in August 2020. The three-episode season brought the long-running series into 1970 and was a welcome return to the shorter format of the show after the Season 6 six-episode banner season. Unfortunately, it would be a
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In a summer television season that will likely be dominated by the highly anticipated returns of several popular mystery series (Endeavour, Grantchester) and political thrillers (COBRA), period drama fans can breathe a sigh of relief: At least we'll always have Hotel Portofino. This lush 1920s drama is set
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The episode opens with Lister, glamorous in a fashionable massively-sleeved gown, and Ann, also beautifully dressed, dining at a hotel restaurant in Paris. Lister shows off for Ann's benefit and probably for the other patrons. She talks loudly about her aristocratic friends, gesticulates, and shamelessly name-drops. Ann, bless
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Though Apple TV+ is only just now starting to produce British series and films (instead of series and movies that just feel British, like Dickinson, star Brits, like Defending Jacob, or are British adjacent, like Ted Lasso), it's been prepping for this since it launched. In July 2020,
Movies
After over a decade of development, the regency romantic comedy Mr. Malcolm's List is finally heading for a big-screen release. Based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Allain, the 1800s-era story revolves around the titular character, a too-picky suitor in search of a wife, who
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Although it’s less than twenty years after the end of World War II when Ridley Road opens, neo-Nazism is still alive and thriving under the auspices of the National Socialist Movement in the United Kingdom, targeting Jews, Black, and brown people in the alleged interests of racial purity. Its
Drama
It’s hard to believe we’re already up to the penultimate episode of this season’s Call the Midwife! When last we were in Poplar, our friends were dealing with arty squatters, a reclusive clairvoyant with a serious health issue and Dr. Turner was trying to get a measles
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The Emmys are coming, or at least the submittal deadline is. Any show wanting to be considered for the 2021-2022 TV season must have at least premiered by May 31, which means this is the month where the big guns come out. Just about every streamer on this list has
Comedy
Despite what you may have heard, Netflix is not dead. The streaming service is still head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to a subscriber user base, and though the vast majority of its ~60 originals that it churns out every month may be utter junk, it is
Comedy
Admittedly, many American Anglophiles likely have a rather idyllic conception of Britain's National Health Service. It's true, the NHS is probably a model for the kind of open-door health system that many of us wish we had here in the United States, but because we often