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The Queen Charlotte spinoff of Bridgerton has not yet announced a title for the series, but the casting rolls on. The initial announcement debuted the actors playing the leading roles of Young Queen Charlotte and Young Agatha Danbury. But the younger version of Ruth Gemmell's character, Lady Violet
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Netflix already had a big-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical in the works before committing to going full-on with the Roald Dahl Universe. But the timing is such that viewers will almost certainly see the projects as part of a larger whole. With high-profile stars such
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Netflix U.K.'s newest series will take on David Nicholl's hit novel, One Day. The 2009 romance, in which each chapter covers the same date in consecutive years over a twenty-year span, traces the romance between Dexter and Emma, who first hooked up in 1988. Over
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The Bridgerton universe began as a TV show adapted by an American producer, Shonda Rhimes, from a series of novels by an American writer, Julia Quinn. But the result was as British as teatime, thanks to some brilliant casting. It also made one more smart alteration, adding in royal couple
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Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed work, published six months after her death in 1817. The story is one of Austen's least frequently adapted works, likely due to its prickly, older heroine and more difficult subject matter. A story of missed opportunities, regrets, and second chances,
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Game of Thrones represented a significant turning point in prestige dramas when it hit big on HBO. Dozens of shows have attempted to copy its formula, with varying success. But the one thing many of these shows agree on is hiring A-list British talent is a must. From His Dark
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Netflix has released the trailer for the new Rowan Atkinson comedy Man vs. Bee and...it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect from the title. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, by the way. Atkinson rose to global fame starring in shows that helped
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This may be Stranger Things weekend over at Netflix, but across the pond in London, cameras are starting to roll on one of the streaming service's biggest British hits, Bridgerton. Actress Nicola Coughlan (Derry Girls), who plays Penelope Featherington, put on her Lady Whistledown bonnet and dropped the
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Given how generally terrible the real world has been in recent years, you may not have actually noticed that we haven't had new episodes of the dystopian science fiction series Black Mirror on our screens for going on three years now. But, apparently, Netflix is finally working on
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Since the end of Season 2, there have been rumors that Bridgerton would start pulling away in earnest from the book's source material in the next two installments. This was probably inevitable, considering how much the show changed up from the second book in Julia Quinn's
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The Western World still holds up World War II as the last "good" war, making it endless fodder for television and movies. The era that launched modern technology endlessly fascinates us, from mainstream mega-hits like Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List to PBS dramas like World
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For whatever reason, Persuasion is the least frequently adapted of Jane Austen's classic novels, with only a handful of major onscreen versions, versus what can often feel like dozens of takes on stories like Pride and Prejudice or Emma. Whether this is because of its prickly older heroine