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Many Americans have likely never heard of Grace O'Malley, but writer and director Kirsten Sheridan is working on changing that. The former Say Nothing scribe is developing a feature film about the exploits of one of the most interesting (and least well-known) female figures in history. Gráinne Mhaol
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April showers bring May flowers, but April TV brings out the May Emmy contenders. While "sweeps" may no longer be a thing in the broadcast world, April and May are still two of the most significant months in the TV season in the U.S. This is primarily
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From the start, the second season of Marie Antoinette holds a smattering of small victories and an overabundance of significant-to-catastrophic losses, but everyone sure looks gorgeous through it all. We could publish daily close-reads of nearly every scene’s visual riches, and if there were considerably less TV to cover,
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CinemaCon 2025 is on, the annual week-long event in Vegas where theater owners are given a first look at the films studios will be releasing, hoping to convince them to buy in on the marketing and create buzz in the entertainment media before release. This event is where Downton Abbey&
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From Black Mirror's humble beginnings on Channel 4 (which canceled it, only to see Netflix swoop in and turn it into one of the most famous shows of the decade) to its biggest budget streaming seasons, the series has managed to predict some of the darkest moments of
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Period costume escapist television has undergone a renaissance in the 2020s. Thanks to shows like Bridgerton and Sanditon, there's been a real movement in the last five years to be more honest about the past, with productions choosing to both write about Black history along with the typical
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It is common practice for new British dramas to cast established American actors in a lead role – a surefire way to court audiences and funding that has trickled down from international, prestige, or streaming series like The Diplomat, The Gentlemen, Peaky Blinders, The Outlaws, or Industry to modest, terrestrial dramas
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A few weeks ago, as we were busy gasping over Amazon Studios having to pay twice for the Bond franchise, it was noted how much Barabra Broccoli hated Amazon from the jump. She hated their ethos, their marketing plans, and perhaps most of all, their franchising of "IP"
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Irene Adler is on the scene! The famous literary con artist, who has been played by such fan favorites as Natalie Dormer (Elementary), Lara Pulver (Sherlock), and Rachel McAdams (Sherlock Holmes), is taken on by Danish actor Whoopie Van Raam (most recently seen opposite Jason Statham in The Meg 2)
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Marie Antoinette’s “A Poison Pen” is packed with illicit affairs and intricate scheming. The episode’s title refers to Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and his new play, The Marriage of Figaro, the premiere performance of which put another nail in the coffin for the king and queen of France.
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One of the most impressive things about Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light is how ponderous it is. (That's a compliment, by the way.) Everything about this show is both deliberate and incredibly slow-moving, all the better to underscore just how volatile and ever-changing this particular sliver
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It's a new decade on Call the Midwife, and with that comes new issues. We rejoin the nuns of Nonnatus House and the midwives in the spring of 1970, only a few short months after the events of the double Christmas episode. Trixie (Helen George) is back in