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Australian writer Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North was an international bestseller released in 2014. His sixth novel, the mid-century set story, was based partly on his father's experiences before and during World War II, intermixed with a fictionalized version of Edward “Weary”
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The last time we checked in with the upcoming BBC crime thriller Virdee, it was October 2023, and the series had just been commissioned starring Doctor Who's Sacha Dhawan. Dhawan had just wrapped up his role as the latest incarnation of The Master on the long-running science fiction
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When BBC Alba, the Gaelic-language offshoot of BBC Scotland, announced the commissioning of The Island (An t-Eilean) in March 2024, it boasted that the series would be the biggest and most high-profile Gaelic drama in the network's (and the country's) history. In the area's
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As it has since 1996, Silent Witness will return to the BBC along with the brand new year. (Though the series has shifted around the calendar over the three decades since it launched, it tends to favor debuts in January/February, with the bulk of the seasons debuting in the
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Despite being an oddity for 1970s British television, A Ghost Story for Christmas is now considered the ideal, classic form of British horror filmmaking. The films (around 30-50 minutes long) were produced by the BBC and broadcast around Christmas for eight years straight. With one exception, they were all directed
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Thanks in no small part to creator Steven Knight, the concept of the gritty early 20th-century period drama is having something of a moment. A direct contrast to the more lavish, high-end dramas like Downton Abbey or Bridgerton, these stories tend to focus on working or lower-class characters in settings
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Sir David Attenborough is the most famous naturalist in the world, but before 1979, he was just another upper-class Brit who discovered the power of television by being in the right place at the right time. That final year of the 1970s marked the release of Attenborough's seminal
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Our first look at BBC's upcoming historical epic King & Conqueror has arrived, offering a gritty preview of the sweeping eight-part drama that stars James Norton (Grantchester) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) as two of the most important figures in English history: Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex,
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As a franchise, Doctor Who is well into elder statesman territory now, boasting over sixty years of history, fifteen actors in the role of the Doctor, and dozens of companions and notable guest stars. But, that extended history comes with more than a few gaps. Much of the series'
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When Mum, starring Lesley Manville, arrived in the mid-2010s, it was hailed as a triumph, a slice of real-life series that managed to start as an excellent study in family and end with a magnificent romance in everyday life. Writer Stefan Golaszewski, who created the series, walked away with a
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One of the U.K.’s long-standing traditions is telling ghost stories at Christmas. The most famous, of course, is A Christmas Carol, in which a rich man is terrorized into paying his staff a living wage. However, Dickens was merely following a tradition older than he was; Victorian writers
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When Death in Paradise debuted in 2011, it was just supposed to be a cute little Ben Miller (Professor T) vehicle in which he played DI Richard Poole, a fish-out-of-water, pale-faced, stuffy white colonialist who crankily hated living in a relaxing paradise. But life imitating art turned out to be