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Mark your calendars: Heartwarming drama Call the Midwife will officially return to PBS for its ninth season this Spring. Now that we've officially spent Christmas in Poplar - or in Scotland with some Poplar residents, if you want to get super technical - it's time to
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The 2010s are over. The new decade is just around the corner, and the next round of what could be the "Roaring 20s" is set to begin. As viewers look forward to the future, which promises anglophiles everything from a new King to a new batch of British
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Predicting the future is a fool's errand, but when years with nice round numbers turn up, people do it anyway. It's hard to know what the next decade will bring in the world of television. If someone had told me in 2009 that the biggest shows
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Happy Christmas! If you're reading this, you must have just recently watched the annual Call the Midwife holiday episode. Our friends from Poplar have hit the road once again, this time to help an isolated Scottish community with a serious shortage of medical personnel. Let's take
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I often group Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials with George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire when discussing its impact on the fantasy landscape. That's because both play on the same stereotype of the genre — the heroic white male whose plot
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As 2020 draws near, we take a look ahead at the new British programs are heading our way in the New Year, and discuss the favorites we can't wait to see return. Let's run down some of the major highlights we're expecting to see
Theater
Not to like pantomime, the journalist Leigh Hunt declared, is not to like love: pantomime is a curious blend of continental and British traditions. The raw energy of music hall, the sauciness of Victorian burlesque, the crazy chase of the harlequinade, the acrobatic power of John Rich, the archetypal plots
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It's the end of 2019, and that means it's time to get reflective. We look back at the best British shows that aired on your local PBS station this year, from period drama to mystery and more. This was a big year for British programming on
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries was a surprise hit of the decade when it traveled around the world from Australian TV to America in 2013. Since then, the 1920s-era series, which is based on author Kerry Greenwood's historical mystery novels, has gone on to become a cult
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'Tis the season! The holidays are almost upon us, which means it's nearly time for one of our favorite traditions: The annual Call the Midwife Christmas special. The special holiday installment will air on Christmas Day in both the U.S. and the U.K., and will
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Critics have complained that His Dark Materials has failed so far in its ability to emphasize the importance of the daemon-human bond in Lyra's world. Up until this week, I was inclined to argue with them. Though Lyra and Pan are not in constant contact in quite the
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It's official: Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' highly anticipated adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula will come to America in January, courtesy of Netflix. This Gothic horror-themed take on Stoker's classic aims to bring the infamous vampire out of the shadows and center him