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Fictional detectives always have odd names, from Arthur Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie's funny little Belgian, Poirot, who was given the first name "Hercule." Fictional TV detectives also have unusual names, such as Columbo and Matlock. The latter is what Only
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We've only one more episode of I, Jack Wright to go, and Sally’s oh-so-cheery statement at the beginning of the penultimate episode, "Salt in the Wound," is a doozy. “It’s easy to think that everything that came out - all the greed and
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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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PBS did something deeply unusual during the 2023-2024 TV season. Normally, schedules are set months in advance, and in the case of something like Masterpiece, where premiere dates are dictated by when the show airs in the U.K., there's a lot of shifting around of series
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Crime drama Grace is one of the most successful procedurals that most American viewers probably haven't heard of. Based on author Peter James's sprawling series of novels, the under-the-radar workhorse has been steadily pulling in numbers for the U.K. network ITV, and has
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“Every time we put our focus on one suspect, another lead would take us down another path. It was a jumble of snakes. ”That’s how DCI Hector Morgan (Harry Lloyd) sums up his investigation into the death of Jack Wright in the show’s fourth episode. And he’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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Jack Wright (Trevor Eve) is dead as a doornail, but despite it looking like suicide, that turned out all to be window dressing. Someone murdered the family patriarch in cold blood and made it look like he took his own life, either because they believed they stood to inherit when
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Filming for Death in Paradise Season 15 is officially underway, with the BBC posting the first image from the set in Guadaloupe. The series, which underwent a revival of sorts in Season 14 with its fifth lead in just over a decade, has never been more popular, with viewership remaining
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And you think your family has problems? I, Jack Wright, the new series from Chris Lang (Unforgotten), kicks off with the apparent suicide of the title character (Trevor Eve), a millionaire on his third wife. As one can imagine, with that many wives, Jack leaves behind many, many confused and
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The interwar period was a time of massive social change in England, as the Great War swept through with technological marvels and a greater chance at equality than ever before, even as the aristocratic families that once ruled the social world went bankrupt. It was also the dawn of celebrity
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BritBox has not set a premiere date as yet for the U.S. debut of Code of Silence, but in the U.K., ITV has it slated for mid-May. The new, wholly original police procedural hails from writer Catherine Moulton, who PBS viewers will know from her work on