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Anne Boleyn Falls in ‘Wolf Hall’s Finale, “Master of Phantoms”
Last week, Thomas Cromwell did the right thing for the country. This week, his choice comes back to bite him.
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‘Wolf Hall’s’ Penultimate Episode Leaves Cromwell for the “Crows”
Much like William Shakespeare’s history plays, 'Wolf Hall' takes history and retells it via the sensibilities of modern authors.
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'A Ghost Story For Christmas' 2024 To Adapt 'Man-Size in Marble'
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 writers
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‘Wolf Hall’s “The Devil’s Spit” Is the Anti-‘Man for All Seasons’
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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The Boleyns Win This Round in ‘Wolf Hall’s “Anna Regina”
To get there, they just had to reverse about a century and a half of accepted religious and political policy.
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‘Wolf Hall’ Pushes Cromwell from Wolsey to the Palace in “Entirely Beloved”
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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‘Wolf Hall’s Premiere Introduces a “Three Card Trick”
Welcome to Wolf Hall, the world of 16th-century politics and intrigue.
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The First Images From 'Bookish' Introduce an Array of Colorful Crime Solving Characters
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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PBS Passport to Stream 'Ghost Stories' for Halloween 2024
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
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Murder & Intrigue with Lavish Views: First Episode of 'Moonflower Murders' Kills It
Following her near-death in the finale of Magpie Murders, editor-turned-amateur detective Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) has left London for the gorgeous vistas of Crete in Moonflower Murders, where she is running a hotel with her longtime boyfriend Andreas (Alexandros Logothetis). But there’s trouble in paradise: running a hotel is
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Alibi Drama 'Bookish' Finalizes Cast as Filming Begins
Filming has officially begun on Bookish, the latest entry in the longstanding British mystery tradition of "people with increasingly random jobs who also help the police solve murders for fun". This one, perhaps the most perfectly imagined TV take on this concept yet, focuses on a gay bookshop
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Mark Gatiss Will Play a Bookshop Owner Who Solves Crimes in Alibi Drama 'Bookish'
It is a truth universally acknowledged that in the world of British drama, you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to solve crime. No, really; in many of the U.K.'s popular dramas, you don't need to be trained as a detective or honestly