Drama
Move over, Bridgerton. The original fictional period-piece romance drama has thrown its hat in the ring to be our date this holiday season. The inevitable sequel to the Downton Abbey movie, entitled Downton Abbey 2, is heading to big screens in time for Christmas. A big-screen sequel was less a
Actors and Actresses
Award-winning actress Ruth Wilson has the sort of wide-ranging career that encompasses both period classics (Jane Eyre) and groundbreaking contemporary gems (Luther). She’s also one of those performers whose work is generally so consistently great that we often forget to talk about how great it is. (For example, Wilson’
Actors and Actresses
Every so often, a piece of horrible news lands in your lap that feels like the equivalent of being punched in the face. Such is the announcement that Helen McCrory, a powerhouse actress that has starred in everything from Peaky Blinders to Harry Potter, passed away at the age of
Great Performances
Though live performances are largely still shuttered over a year into the coronavirus pandemic, fans of Shakespeare can rejoice, and those who have needed a jolt of theatrical goodness are in for a treat. PBS's Great Performances has picked up the rights to Romeo & Juliet, the planned
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The buzzy remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic The 39 Steps starring Benedict Cumberbatch will be headed to a Netflix queue near you. The streamer made what is being described as an aggressive bid for the rights to the new adaptation of John Buchan's thriller, which reportedly "
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As filming for Bridgerton Season 2 gets underway in London, more moves are happening behind the scenes. Netflix may have waited until it had conclusive proof of the show's popularity before greenlighting Season 2 in January, but it wasn't going to do that again. Mere weeks
Mystery
The only constant in streaming is change. Once upon a time, Netflix had all the TV series and movies from multiple outside production studios. Now, it is losing the last of the Disney and Warner Bros. Pictures vaults to Disney+ and HBO Max, respectively, while NBC/Universal and Paramount consider
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The first teaser clip for the buzzy, controversial new Channel 5 series Anne Boleyn is here, starring actress Jodie Turner-Smith as the doomed English queen. The three-part series aims to re-examine the final months of the infamous queen's life as a sort of period psychological thriller, as Anne
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All Creatures Great & Small could not have arrived at a better time. But not only was the love letter to the Yorkshire dales and low-level drama just what the doctor ordered, but it also landed the late Dame Diana Rigg as the glorious Mrs. Pumphrey in one of her
Mystery
When the coronavirus pandemic rolled into the summer of 2020, it was the first sign for many that the disruption to daily life wasn't ending anytime soon. Even as ITV announced Grantchester would be greenlit for more episodes, the question was, yes, but when? Filming for the series
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Upcoming Starz period drama The Serpent Queen has found its star in former Harlots leading lady Samantha Morton. Morton will play the infamous Catherine de Medici, one of the most influential - and often controversial - women to ever wear a crown. A queen and mother to three kings, Catherine
Books
Time stands still in the fog. With all modern references obscured, the river is ageless, static, ghostly. The spirits of the foreshore rise up in the mist, just out of sight. Through the swirling whiteness, a medieval fisherman pegs his fish traps to the riverbed, a Victorian scavenger wanders barefoot