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For at least two generations of Jane Austen lovers, 2025 is a banner anniversary year. It’s the 30th anniversary of the beloved 1995 BBC miniseries adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, the six-part ultra-faithful version of the series with Jennifer Elhe as Elizabeth Bennet and Colin Firth as
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It's been over two years since pandemic-era favorite Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators last aired a new episode and almost four since Season 4 was filmed in early 2021. However, fans of series creator Paul Matthew Thompson, the man behind Vera and Father Brown, know that sometimes
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Lately, there’s been a lot about “gerontocracy” and whether or not older people can cognitively handle high-level jobs. For those who need an example showing that age ain’t nothing but a number and you’re only as old as you let yourself feel, I give you Sir
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Every actor cites two rules as they break them: Never work with children or animals. The theory behind this statement is that working with either requires working with someone who cannot yet fully understand they are acting. But what if the adaptation you're undertaking is a child-centric
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Regular readers of Telly Visions have most likely read at least one rant concerning AT&T (and then Warner Bros. Discovery) ’s failure to properly promote the plethora of British series that HBO and HBO Max premiered between 2019 and 2023. Both parent companies made the same error, believing
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Filming has officially wrapped on King & Conqueror, the epic, eight-part BBC period drama that aims to explore the lives of the two men who helped shape the identity of England — and the future of Europe — as we understand it today. The drama will follow the story of Harold
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Since February 2024, questions about BritBox have become a regular feature of the Telly Visions inbox. Many of our readers have questions about what's happening to the niche service, technically called "BritBox International," here in the US since the surprise announcement that the BBC was buying
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It's not exactly a secret that Doctor Who is one of the most popular franchises in the world. Over the years, it has already spawned several spin-offs (Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class) and a thriving world of audio adventures courtesy of Big Finish. But with the
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What do an arson, a missing persons cold case, and a true crime podcast have to do with one another? That's only one of the questions at the heart of the upcoming BBC crime thriller The Jetty, a four-part series that promises to explore everything from questions
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Of the 11 new shows the BBC's Director of Drama, Lindsay Salt, greenlit in February 2024, the least surprising was Lions, the pitch from Richard Gadd. If that name rings a bell, it should; Gadd became a household name in America thanks to Netflix early in 2024 after
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Jenna Coleman is about to officially enter her detective era. The former Doctor Who star is hardly the first actor to bounce from traveling on cosmic adventures in the TARDIS to tackling crime in the gritty streets of London (or some other British city). Lots of them have done it,
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Doctor Who’s new reboot era has garnered buzz in cultural circles for many “firsts” in LGBTQ+ representation. So far, there’s been the first gay Doctor, the first gay kiss in Doctor Who, the first transgender actor, the first transgender character, and so on. All of these have happened,