Movies
Summer is prime movie season in part due to the lovely air-conditioned darkness that can transport you to different places and eras. And it would appear that this summer, British films will be doing just that. The offerings range from the Victorian era to the Cold War and beyond. With
Drama
The BBC crime thriller series Luther comes back to WETA-UK starting this month. We look back at the landmark series that made the career of Idris Elba. For both fans of the actor, and fans of BBC mysteries and thrillers, this is a must-watch series. Alice Morgan: Well that'
Drama
Poldark Season 3 arrives on BBC One in only a few days. Unfortunately for us here in the United States, it won't air on PBS until October. How to cope? One of the hardest things about being an anglophile here in the United States is how long it
Doctor Who
After last week’s subpar beginning can The Pyramid at the End of the World pull this season’s three-parter back on track?
Reality
I realize it’s a bit late in the game to be mentioning this, but Tuesday night on PBS has become a must-see TV night for me recently. My enthusiasm is all due to a new educational reality mini-series set in Victorian era London, called Victorian Slum House. You may
Drama
No sooner have we dried our tears from Sunday night’s season finale then comes the announcement that several of the Call the Midwife cast are quitting the show. It had already been reported at the end of March that Ben Caplan, the actor who plays Sgt. Peter Noakes, would
Drama
Masterpiece presents a portrait of Mary Ann Cotton, the first female serial killer in the industrial era, in drama Dark Angel. A story of the a woman who killed her victims using pots of tea laced with arsenic, the two hour production explores what might make a woman on the
Drama
If I were to use one word to describe this week’s Call the Midwife season finale it would be “emotional." Whether brought on by hormones or resulting from events both tragic and joyous, if you didn’t cry during this episode you may not be human. It was
Sci-Fi
Our first episode of the three-part installment at the heart of this season of Doctor Who is a bizarre fake-out.
Sci-Fi
The Tenth Doctor and Rose are coming back to the world of Doctor Who! Well, sort of. David Tennant and Billie Piper are reprising their roles as the Tenth Doctor and his first companion. They’re just not doing it on TV. The two are reuniting to star in a
Drama
This Sunday, PBS will air the BBC's production of Dark Angel, which focuses on the life of Mary Ann Cotton, one of the 19th century's most prolific serial killers, and one that you've mostly likely never heard of. What drives a killer to take
Drama
The highly anticipated prequel to beloved crime drama Prime Suspect finally has an airdate! The drama, greenlit to some degree thanks to the success of ITV’s popular Inspector Morse prequel franchise, Endeavour, will premiere on PBS beginning June 25, as part of this summer’s Masterpiece Mystery line-up. Though