Masterpiece's third remake of the OG costume drama that put PBS on the map.
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It’s been a minute since Masterpiece went full-court press for an upcoming all-star costume drama, at least in the way it used to do for Downton Abbey back in the day. Viewers couldn’t get enough of the Granthams, and images from filming used to cross the pond regularly,
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Masterpiece has confirmed that its forthcoming period drama The Forsytes will be sticking around for a while. Though this new adaptation of John Galsworthy's Nobel Prize-winning book series The Forsyte Saga has yet to premiere on either side of the pond — and won't for a few
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Coverage of the Channel 5 rebrand rollout on March 12, 2025, focused heavily on the U.K. network's original offerings like The Madame Blanc Mysteries and the mass import of Paramount+ series that the streaming service is picking up along with the merging of linear Channel 5 and
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Though many of us may poke gentle fun at shows like HBO's The Gilded Age for their constantly expanding cast rosters the truth is that part of the appeal of period drama, as a genre, is its expansive sense of scope. From recreating the technical details of specific
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Period dramas can run the gamut when it comes to scope, tone, and subject. However, there are a handful that are continually held up as examples of the best of what the genre can be and do: Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth'
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The first signs of a new remake of The Forsyte Saga appeared on production listings at the beginning of April 2024. While there had been rumors before about the series returning to television, the pre-production announcements were the first sign the project was getting off the ground, with Mammoth Productions
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There are few British TV classic dramas more associated with the BBC and PBS' Masterpiece than The Forsyte Saga. The first miniseries adaptation of John Galsworthy's early 1900s era novels of the same name and the trilogy follow-up, A Modern Comedy, aired in 1967 on BBC Two,