Movies
What a time to be a Jane Austen fan: It looks like we're getting not one but two new versions of Persuasion headed to our screens in the not too distant future. According to The Hollywood Reporter, streaming giant Netflix is producing its own updated take on Austen&
Drama
When American audiences think of period dramas, our minds tend to go immediately to England in Tudor, Victorian, or Regency times and popular shows like Bridgerton, Victoria, Downton Abbey, or The Tudors. But that's certainly not the case with the upcoming drama Domina, a new series that aims
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Jenna Coleman has been tapped to star in the upcoming drama The War Rooms, a series that will explore the untold stories of the women who lived, loved, and triumphed in Winston Churchill’s secret Whitehall bunker during World War II. Coleman will play Joan Bright, an unsung hero of
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After months of delay, Call The Midwife is finally back on BBC where it belongs. After managing to get its Christmas special up on time, the regular season, which usually follows directly in January, was delayed by a few months as filming wound down. But once it was ready for
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In today's Hollywood, a completely original work of fiction as a prestige TV series is a rare sight. Most of the time, when a production studio sinks that kind of money into a series, especially a CGI heavy fantasy-laden one, they want a built-in fanbase from a series
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Mark your calendars, period drama fans. Premium cable network Starz is set to air the 2018 BBC series Death and Nightingales next month. The three-part drama is based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Eugene McCabe and stars The Fall's Jamie Dornan, The Nevers'
Mystery
The coronavirus pandemic delays hit some shows harder than others. Over at Netflix, for example, The Crown's planned schedule managed to sidestep the pandemic completely. The Witcher struggled but lucked into finishing relatively on time, while Stranger Things remains in limbo. Here at PBS, the pandemic upended most
PBS
The series Atlantic Crossing has come in for a fair amount of criticism in Europe for its alleged mishandling of history. It was bound to happen, just as viewers of Netflix’s The Crown, couldn’t always separate fact from fiction. Neither The Crown nor Atlantic Crossing ever claimed to
Mystery
As the infamous meme goes, "Nature is healing," and yearly fan-favorite series are starting to return to PBS. First out of the gate, the Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar-led mystery series Unforgotten, which now has a release date as part of a packed summer lineup for Masterpiece. The
Actors and Actresses
The month of April has been a tough one for Anglophiles. Of course, we all just witnessed the funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh over the weekend. Last week, we got the heartbreaking news that actress Helen McCrory had died after a battle with cancer at the age of
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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’