BBC
It was back in September 2024 when the BBC announced it was commissioning a new series from Jimmy McGovern, the man behind the award-winning anthology series, Time. McGovern, who is famous in the U.K. for his shows that delve into the British criminal justice system and its shortcomings in
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Funny Woman Season 2, we hardly knew ye! I wish we’d gotten at least two more episodes of the life and times of Sophie Straw, but it’s been a fun, brisk quartet of episodes. I both enjoy and admire how the season’s many significant plots and character
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Have you seen Almost Famous? It’s Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical film about the experiences of "William," a teenage music journalist writing for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s. At one point, William has gotten himself in a terrible bind: he’s been on the road with the
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Sophie Straw (née Barbara Parker and played by Gemma Arterton) just wants to exercise her judgment in both professional and personal matters. Why is that so hard? That’s rhetorical; I know why it’s hard: there would be no TV show without this central conflict and journey, and it
Sky
U.K. network Sky has revealed our first look at its upcoming six-part dark comedy, The Death of Bunny Munro, which stars Matt Smith (Doctor Who) as an alcoholic womanizer who must face his worst self when he's forced to become a single parent to his son, Bunny
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Despite the awkwardness of the series name, critics and reviewers loved Gemma Arterton's first season of Funny Woman. (So-called because it's adapted from the Nick Hornsby novel Funny Girl, a title already taken by a rather famous musical.) However, viewers, assuming the title was a comedy,
BritBox
Friends, I’m at a loss as I write this recap. After Passenger’s sixth and final episode, I assumed series creator and writer Andrew Buchan had written it as a cliffhanger. But in a recent interview with TellyVisions, Buchan described it as a limited series (though he’d welcome
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A dangerous game is afoot in Chadder Vale as we reach Passenger’s midpoint. Mehmet is dead, and Riya – who never claimed to be perfect and spends a not-inconsiderable amount of time showing those imperfections – refuses to let it go. She’s in the right; it’s not a suicide,
BritBox
BritBox may continue to state it's business as usual since the BBC took over the streaming service in February 2024. However, its beefed-up lineup, especially on Thursday nights, belies that claim. The BBC has not made any wholesale changes to the niche service, at least not yet; after
PBS
PBS' newest addition to the period drama lineup, Funny Woman (based on the novel Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, with the title altered for obvious reasons), was commissioned for a Season 2 by producer Sky around the same time it landed an American distributor. As luck would have it,
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Sophie was flying high in last week's Funny Woman; this week, she’s laid low. Some would say she has only herself to blame, and to those people, I issue a very loud and rude raspberry while showing them the door directly out. We have neither time nor
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This week on Funny Woman, a slew of firsts for Sophie: her first live recording of a sitcom before a live studio audience (an episode that then airs on tv! And is approved for an entire six-episode run!), first tampon use, first chat show appearance and groovy nightclub visit, first