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BritBox Will Bring 'A Woman of Substance' Remake to the U.S.
'A Woman of Substance' will be part of BritBox's substantial summer lineup for 2026.
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'A Woman of Substance' Casts 'Vera's Brenda Blethyn
The 1979 debut novel of British author Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance, was a massive hit. The first in what became the “Emma Harte Cycle,” a seven-novel saga tracing the fictional heroine’s rise from country housemaid to Wall Street mogul, sold 30 million copies and made Taylor
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Sophie Gets the Last Word in 'Funny Woman's Season 2 Finale
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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The Personal & Professional Intertwine in 'Funny Woman's Penultimate Episode
Funny Woman’s second season is burning through plot like a bunch of raked-up autumnal leaves. A four-episode season means that where we’d be at the midpoint of a season with six episodes, we’re already in penultimate episode territory, often where the big turning points of the season
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Sophie Straw Is Back, Baby, in 'Funny Woman's Season Premiere
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
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'Wolf Hall: The Mirror & The Light' Trailer Promises an Epic Conclusion
Out of all the British series coming to American shores in 2025, the return of Wolf Hall to PBS, a decade after the series initially debuted, might be the most anticipated. The original series covered the two books released by Hilary Mantel at the time, Wolf Hall and Bringing Up
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'Funny Woman' Returns to PBS in 2025
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,
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Royals Behaving Badly: 'Scoop' vs 'A Very Royal Scandal'
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, gave a damning interview to the BBC’s Emily Maitlis about his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In the spring of 2024, Netflix gave us Scoop, a feature-length movie
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'Funny Woman' Season 2 Takes Sophie to France
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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'McDonald & Dodds' Season 4 is Witty & Entertaining
BritBox’s intelligent, playful series McDonald & Dodds challenges and intrigues, thanks to its two titular characters, DCI Lauren McDonald (Tala Gouveia) and DS Dodds (Jason Watkins), and Season 4 debuts on BritBox on May 22, with the first of three feature-length episodes written by Robert Murphy. But before we
Comedy
'Ten Percent' 100% Wishes It Was 'Call My Agent'
Despite what you may have heard, Netflix is not dead. The streaming service is still head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to a subscriber user base, and though the vast majority of its ~60 originals that it churns out every month may be utter junk, it is
Comedy
The 'Ten Percent' Trailer Will Have You Howling
British TV comedy has a long history and a serious fandom. From Monty Python to Red Dwarf, the mere phrase "British comedy" comes with weighty lineage and a reputation to uphold. Even newer shows like The Office and Fleabag leave long shadows that other series have to fight