Drama
Though we’re still a few months from the return of popular period drama Call the Midwife, filming on its upcoming season has been underway since May. The drama was renewed through Season 9 back when it was only airing Season 6, so we haven’t – and won’t – need
Reality
First there were twelve, now only a trio of bakers remain as we enter The Great British Baking Show Season 5 finals. After Danny, the lone female baker, was eliminated in the tension-filled Patisserie Week semifinal last week, three men have survived to do battle in a tent filled with
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Good news, mystery fans: There’s a new detective in town. And she’ll be coming to a PBS streaming service near you. The Frankie Drake Mysteries is an eleven-episode Canadian series that follows a group of female private detectives in 1920s Toronto. Lauren Lee Smith stars as the titular
Culture
Our latest series runs down the truth behind the popular bakes featured on The Great British Baking Show. This week: The Pâtisserie Semi-Final! Pâtisserie (Semi-Final) The word "pâtisserie" is French for "Bakeshop." This round is all French pastry all the time, and it is always one
Movies
As one of countless people who read the best-seller by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows almost a decade ago, I was keen to check out the screen adaptation of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Many a book discussion group has examined and embraced this historical novel
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It seems like just last week we were being introduced to a dozen bright and hopeful bakers as The Great British Baking Show Season 5 began. How can it be that only four contestants now remain? This week Brendan, Danny, James and John figuratively headed across The Channel with three
Comedy
So, it may have taken David Tennant a few years post-Doctor Who to become a proper big name star, but he certainly seems to be everywhere these days now. (Not that I am complaining, let’s be clear.) Not only is he set to star in the highly anticipated Amazon
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Steven Moffat just can’t seem to let go of time travel. The former Doctor Who showrunner only just recently passed the reins of the long-running science fiction series to new head executive Chris Chibnall, and he’s apparently already back at the whole wibley wobbly timey wimey thing. Moffat
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Period drama The Miniaturist is set to air this September on Masterpiece and PBS has released an official trailer for the upcoming drama. Anna Taylor-Joy stars as Nella Oortman, a young girl who marries a wealthy merchant in seventeenth century Amsterdam. Excited to begin her new life, Nella suddenly starts
Culture
Our latest series runs down the truth behind the popular bakes featured on The Great British Baking Show. This week: Biscuits! Biscuit Week Biscuit Week (which to us Americans is really Cookie Week) has been a standard for GBBS since the very first season, along with Bread Week and Cake
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The BBC and Masterpiece recently dropped the first set of promo images for their upcoming, star-studded new adaptation of the classic Les Miserables, giving us our first look at three of the story’s iconic characters. Dominic West will play the heroic Jean Valjean, with David Oyelowo as his nemesis
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The Sundance Channel has snapped up the American broadcast rights to upcoming Jenna Coleman BBC drama The Cry. The four-part series will first stream on the network’s SVOD channel, called Sundance Now, before airing on the network itself. There’s no firm streaming or broadcast date for The Cry