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Apple TV+ recently admitted it would actually start attempting to reign in the massive budgets for its original content after a year that saw high-priced projects like Masters of the Air and Fly Me To The Moon barely register, while the long-delayed second season of Severence practically turned
PBS
The PBS portion of the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour for 2024 kicked off on Monday, July 15, 2024, with one of public broadcasting's most anticipated shows for the upcoming fall season, Moonflower Murders. In addition to paneling the series, Masterpiece's executive director, Susanne Simpson,
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It made headlines in June 2024 when Sir Ian McKellen fell off the edge of the stage toward the end of one of his final four-hour performances of The Player King, a retelling of Shakespeare's Henry IV plays as a single show. The actor, who is in
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The BBC has finally released the first images for the second season of Sherwood. The series may sound like a period piece about Robin Hood, but the 2022 critical darling was anything but. It presented itself as a true-crime mystery based on a pair of murders that occurred in
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Ian McKellen is approaching 90 years old and has admitted he will not be acting full-time much longer. That makes the final films of his career all the more valuable, so it can be a little frustrating when something like The Critic, which features an all-star cast, struggles
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It's been about a week since the RadioTimes first dropped an exclusive look at Moonflower Murders (sadly unembeddable for the rest of us, but you can watch it here). Those of us who keep an eye on such things knew when it arrived over the weekend that there
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It’s hard to gauge how bad a film people thought Back to Black was when it was released in Britain last month. The slightly dreaded biopic about the tragically short career of homegrown music sensation Amy Winehouse held at number one at the UK box office for two weeks,
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Amy Winehouse's career lasted all of six years and two albums, beginning with the release of Frank in 2005, followed by the smash hit Back to Black in 2007, and ending with her death via overdose in 2011 at the age of 27. However, for those six years,
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While the actors' and writers' strikes here in the States have caused TV schedules to be delayed and, in some places, outright scrapped, those of us who are fans of British TV and PBS have been far more fortunate. As we noted at the time of the strikes,
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In the season finale of World on Fire Season 2, Lois and Harry come home, Sir James’s romance with Robina ends, Lois embraces motherhood and work, and Kasia is called to duty in Poland. Others begin difficult and dangerous journeys to find freedom and continue the fight. Kasia: You
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Netflix’s The Crown is back for its sixth and final season, split into two parts for reasons Netflix refuses to explain. Whether it’s the material or an overly sensitive approach following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the first half of the final season (four episodes in all)
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This week's World on Fire actually starts in France, but for continuity's sake, we'll discuss Libya first and then backtrack since most of the season has led off with North Africa. Also, like in France, things are pretty dire. The British soldiers are on