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It's renewal season in TV land as networks roll out their plans for the 2025-2026 television season. In America, the scene has been somewhat grim, as more scripted series are canceled than renewed on broadcast networks, with some networks going down to just four or five shows
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The end of February brings the yearly event MIP TV, where many series gather to convince international buyers to pick up the rights to air them. Until 2024, the event was France-based, held in Cannes, as a sort of pre-show to the Cannes Film Festival a few weeks
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Despite being an oddity for 1970s British television, A Ghost Story for Christmas is now considered the ideal, classic form of British horror filmmaking. The films (around 30-50 minutes long) were produced by the BBC and broadcast around Christmas for eight years straight. With one exception, they were all
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Last week, Thomas Cromwell did the right thing for the country. This week, his choice comes back to bite him.
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Much like William Shakespeare’s history plays, 'Wolf Hall' takes history and retells it via the sensibilities of modern authors.
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One of the U.K.’s long-standing traditions is telling ghost stories at Christmas. The most famous, of course, is A Christmas Carol, in which a rich man is terrorized into paying his staff a living wage. However, Dickens was merely following a tradition older than he was; Victorian
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In one of the most remarkable episodes of 'Wolf Hall’s first season, Hillary Mantel argues that, actually, Thomas More was a self-centered fool.
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To get there, they just had to reverse about a century and a half of accepted religious and political policy.
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The first episode of Wolf Hall was setting up a giant chessboard for the Great Game to play out. This week, the power players begin to make their moves.
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Welcome to Wolf Hall, the world of 16th-century politics and intrigue.
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The first images are here from Bookish, the forthcoming Alibi series that's also a charmingly refreshing new entry in the long tradition of British crime dramas about people with normal day jobs who also help solve murders on the side. As the title indicates, this time around, the
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A Ghost Story for Christmas initially debuted in 1971 on the BBC, a Christmas Eve anthology series of scary stories to tell in the dark while awaiting Santa. The original iteration ran for seven years, concluding in 1978. The first five adaptations were based on M.R. James' famous