Drama
The second season of popular period drama Poldark takes us to a world that’s positively bursting with tricorner hats, beautiful Cornish countryside, and smoldering romantic heroes (hello there, Aidan Turner). Season 2 picked up right where the first season of Poldark left off, which means that Ross Poldark has
Reality
Judging by the Forest Gump-themed reference made by Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc at the beginning of the show, it’s chocolate week! But not just any chocolate week; two boys and two girls will bake to within inches of their lives to make it through to the holy grail
Reality
We’ve made it to the quarter finals on The Great British Baking Show and the competition is heating up. The tent is looking quite deserted these days as the bakers frantically prepare their rough puff and choux in hopes of convincing Mary and Paul that they have skills usually
Theater
During their presentation at the 2016 summer edition of the Television Critics Association Press Tour, the folks at Masterpiece announced they would be co-producing a television adaptation of the The Tony-nominated Broadway play King Charles III with the BBC. The original King Charles III premiered in London in 2014 and
Reality
Welcome back to another delicious series of great British baking! This time around PBS aired the most recent UK competition which was broadcast on the BBC from August through October of 2015. I can confidently say that our viewers/readers are hungry to meet a new batch of bakers and
The Great British Sewing Bee
As I finally come up for air, post Game of Thrones, I find myself mainlining the backlog on my saved shows. Starting with The Great British Sewing Bee. The Great British Bake Off, as we know, has become a smash hit now on both sides of the pond. (Due to
Drama
In this installment of Dated or Delightful we returned to 1986 to find out if a show about a roguish antiques dealer with a heart of gold still held up in 2016. Based on the novels of Jonathan Gash, Lovejoy, starring Ian McShane as the title character, debuted on BBC
Comedy
In this installment of Dated or Delightful, we travel all the way back to 1975 to see if a little sitcom about self-sufficiency in the suburbs can still be funny. Yes, over forty years ago the BBC’s The Good Life debuted in the UK and remained popular throughout the
Drama
Previously, on Mr. Selfridge: Jimmy’s feeling pretty great about himself for getting Harry to buy London department store Whiteleys. Or at least he is until he realizes that he’s terrible at his new job, and didn’t pay attention to simple business lessons from Crabbe like “How to
Drama
If you thought the series five finale of Call the Midwife was going to be a run of the mill episode, by now you know you were sadly mistaken. Sure, we start with Dr. Turner bemoaning the restrictive regulations placed on his beloved contraceptive pill and are introduced to yet
PBS
With two of the three installments of Series 2 of The Hollow Crown now up on the iPlayer and Richard III coming this Saturday, it can safely be said that this series is as good as the one that came before it. I was uncertain about that after Henry VI
Comedy
Comedy series Vicious aired its finale episode in summer, 2016. The news the show would not be returning for a third season was announced by ITV late the pevious year, though the cancellation blow was somewhat softened by the fact that it was given a final, extended one-off episode to