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Nicola Walker's exit as DI Cassie Stuart from the beloved Unforgotten franchise shocked Masterpiece viewers when it aired in the summer of 2021. But in the U.K., where the series had already been broadcast much earlier in the year, audiences were already checking out Walker's
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Grantchester's penultimate episode for the season opens with Will playing backgammon at St. Cedd's Care Center, the old folks' home, with Ida Merryman (Anna Calder-Marshall). As befitting someone who used to be on Harlots, she's trying to make it strip backgammon. Matron Fletcher
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BritBox released the three-episode Murder In Provence back in February of 2022, but most viewers could be forgiven for missing it at the time. The year 2022 has been an overwhelming wave of television, and the all-at-once drop of the series meant it was only a blip on the radar.
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Over the past few years, most of the non-U.K. offerings on Acorn TV have usually hailed from down under, either Australia or New Zealand, with a few Irish or Canadian shows thrown in for good measure and a couple of Scandi-noir series as foreign language offerings. But the streaming
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The latest episode of Grantchester opens to a scene of Will being flirted with by female parishioners set to Frankie Avalon's "Venus." It's been far too long since we had a church-set episode and Will dealing with the snark and gossip of the community.
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When Miss Scarlet and the Duke initially premiered in 2021 on PBS' Masterpiece, it occupied the regular 10 p.m. time slot usually reserved for mystery series during the busy times of the TV season, airing post All Creatures Great and Small Season 1 in January. The delay in
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Scottish thriller Guilt will officially return to the Masterpiece this August, but Season 2 of the darkly comedic series will look slightly different than its first. Season 1 followed the story of Max (Mark Bonnar) and Jake (Jamie Silves), a pair of bumbling brothers who accidentally kill a man while
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Birth, death, and marriage are three dramatic experiences most people experience. Weddings, in particular, are fraught, in both good and bad ways. The stress of putting on the event can test even the strongest couple, especially when families get involved. Being an attendee is also stressful; couples who arrive together
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I appreciate what Grantchester is trying to do with opening Episode 3 to "Lonesome Town" as Will and Geordie strugglebus through their breakups. Still, since Pulp Fiction, I haven't been able to take that song seriously. It's hard to take Will's mope
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Paramount+, the streamer with the most extensive growing slate of U.K. originals outside of Netflix's already established U.K. brand, has added another title to the lineup. The Doll Factory is an adaptation of the bestselling debut novel of the same name by Elizabeth Macneal. The story
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PBS is presenting an all-female detective lineup this Fall, and the show firmly ensconced at the center of this block of mystery programming is the highly anticipated new series Magpie Murders. Based on the 2016 novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and adapted by the same, the story is the
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Despite having had sex with her exactly once, Grantchester begins with Will lying on the floor of the church, declaring his undying love for Maya and begging God to tell him what to do. It's very Will, as is meeting her in secret to tell her it will