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E.M. Forster's novels are quintessential British stories of the 20th century; his A Room with a View and Howards End have been staples of British culture, and the film adaptations defined the Merchant-Ivory style, characterized by soft focus and repressed romance. However, his third major work,
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This decade has been several flavors of awful for the entertainment industry since the pandemic first hit in March 2020, followed by the double strike of 2023. Five years in, the aftereffects are still everywhere, from the ongoing sale of the 115-year-old Paramount Studios to the multiple rounds
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Entertainment is a political business. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. Every TV series and movie released into the world is a product of not just someone's imagination (and a whole lot of hard work from artists), but is a testament to the social mores and
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It is rare for daytime soaps from other countries to find homes in the U.S., unless they are a specific kind of Mexican telenovela shown on U.S. Spanish-speaking networks. That's just one of the reasons the Northern Ireland-set series Hope Street has been such
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Vampire fiction has always been popular, whether on the printed page, the big screen, or streaming services. From more overtly prestige properties like Interview with the Vampire and True Blood to soapy romances like The Vampire Diaries and Twilight, we’ve always been fascinated by this particular idea of the
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Fun Fact about Lucy Worsley, the woman best known in the U.S. for her many documentary series, like Lucy Worsley Investigates and Holmes vs. Doyle, in which she does historical deep dives into British history. In the U.K., she's actually known for her many documentary series
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Given that the franchise has been around for over sixty years, Doctor Who has a lot of anniversaries to celebrate. As a general rule, it usually likes to go all out for them, in ways that most frequently involve copious applications of former Tenth Doctor, David Tennant. (See the global
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It's not a secret that The Traitors is one of the biggest reality shows in America. But what many U.S. fans may not know is that the series is part of a much larger franchise that's equally popular all around the globe. Though it began
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I would start this post with the classic "It is a truth universally acknowledged," except we're about five years out from being able to say anything about streaming being universally acknowledged. Instead, let us merely say the news that BritBox is boarding the BBC's
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It only took the BBC five years and three Agatha Christie adaptations before it returned to its most recent primary adaptor of Christie novels, Sarah Phelps (The Sixth Commandment). Phelps made herself into something of a U.K. household name after she did a run of five Christie adaptations in
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Most people track the changes in how we fly as having begun in 2001. However, the real moment air travel forever went from some glamorous lifestyle to a security nightmare was 1988, when the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Up until that incident, taking
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We've been covering the Welsh language and culture resurgence in the last few months as the Cymraeg 2050 project has started altering the U.K. TV landscape. But we would be remiss if we did not also note another surprising bilingualism that's been recently embraced by