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The Duke is dead, long live the Duke. Though the fictional character who used to hold a spot in the series title has not shuffled off this mortal coil by the end of the Miss Scarlet Season 5 premiere, he is really most sincerely gone. It's hard to
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Mystery series Miss Scarlet is set to return for its fifth season in January, but the show will look a great deal different than it has in the past when it does. It's got a new title, dropping the "and the Duke" that has defined the
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Wolf Hall originally aired on PBS in 2015, during the year that saw the rise of the phrases "Prestige TV" and "Peak TV." For those unaware, "Peak TV" is a phrase coined by FX CEO John Landgraf to describe the current era of programming
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The first teaser for the newly rechristened Miss Scarlet is here and, despite the dramatic behind the scenes changes that took place following the series' fourth season, the first footage from Season 5....doesn't feel all that different from what's come before. The teaser trailer
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Masterpiece has announced that the highly anticipated sequel series Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light will premiere in March. The six-part drama is a sequel to the Emmy-nominated Wolf Hall and is based on the final installment in Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel's critically acclaimed trilogy of
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Television series reinvent themselves all the time. Whether for narrative or behind-the-scenes reasons, change is hardwired into the nature of this business, and anyone who's loved a long-running series knows this. However, for PBS's Miss Scarlet and the Duke fans, some considerable adjustments are headed their
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Filming is officially complete on the fifth season of the newly rechristened Miss Scarlet, the popular drama's first without its original co-lead Stuart Martin (Jamestown), who played William Wellington, the titular Duke from the series' original name. Masterpiece celebrated this milestone -- and transition to a new
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It looks like Miss Scarlet won’t be solving crimes alone for very long. The rechristened series, which dropped its Miss Scarlet and the Duke title when co-star Stuart Martin left the show earlier this year, has found its new male lead. Actor Tom Durant Pritchard (This is Going to
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When people think of period dramas, they often think of something very specific: lavish stories set in Jolly Olde England, usually centered around the murderous whims of King Henry VIII, the generally tragic lives of his wives who deserved better, or the triumphal reign of his second daughter, Elizabeth. And
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As most Miss Scarlet and the Duke fans have likely heard by now, significant changes are in store for Season 5 — just not in the way most of us probably expected. The series' fourth season was its most dramatic yet, as the slow burn will they/won't
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It took until the end of February 2024 (leap day, in point of fact!) for PBS finally confirm that Miss Scarlet & The Duke would return for Season 5 after ending on a long cliffhanger. However, the announcement contained a shocking development that no fan saw coming. Though Kate Phillips,
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In a season where William finally told Eliza he loved her, you might expect the Miss Scarlet & The Duke finale to address that major shift, or at least mention it in passing, or explore Eliza's behavior from the season's penultimate installment, where she was a