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Although many of us love period dramas, far too many viewers assume that historical costume drama is strictly the purview of British and/or English-language television. And even these often tend to fall into specific buckets: stories about Tudor England, the Regency period, the Victorian era, or the years
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Since choosing to continue with his commitment to The Time Traveler's Wife instead of returning as Sidney Parker for Sanditon's surprise second season, Theo James has been casting about for a new hit. He was seen as part of the main cast for the feature film
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The reign of The Empress will continue on Netflix next year. The streamer has confirmed that its German period drama has been renewed for a second season, which will continue the story of the infamous Empress Elisabeth ("Sisi") I of Austria, the daughter of a Bavarian duke who
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D.H. Lawerence's classic novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned immediately when it was published in the 1920s. And largely stayed on the global banned books list for the better part of the century that followed—for reasons that may or may not seem quaint now
The Great British Baking Show
It's the Quarterfinal round of The Great British Baking Show, one of my favorite weeks of the competition. Mainly because what other competition show gives itself the kind of airs that they call their Top Five Week "The Quarterfinals," like it's a major sporting
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As someone wise once said, all good things must come to an end. But it's hard not to wish that a conclusion had not come quite so swiftly for Derry Girls, a rare television series that's as successful as a hilarious comedy as it is as
The Great British Baking Show
Since moving to BBC One with Season 5 (and hitting American shores on PBS with it renamed Season 1), The Great British Baking Show has always attempted to add in one theme week that's a little on the conceptual side as the show narrows it down to their
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When Netflix initially announced its streaming offerings for October, the buzzy British drama Inside Man was listed, with a release date of TBD. (Likely because the show was still airing in the U.K. at the time.) But, with the drama's conclusion on BBC One, we now know
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Far too many fans of period drama fans slept on Black Sails, a series that technically served as a prequel of sorts to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island but mainly was a rollicking period adventure set during the Golden Age of Pirates during the early eighteenth
The Great British Baking Show
If people need proof American traditions have invaded the U.K., they need look no further than this week's theme on The Great British Baking Show. That's not to say that the Brits did not celebrate Halloween in the past; All Hallow's Eve was
The Crown
Queen Elizabeth II hasn't been gone for 45 days yet, and yet, her story is about to become one of November's most highly anticipated debuts. Netflix's The Crown, which has been chronicling the life of the late monarch decade by decade since 2016, has
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The first reactions I heard about The Wonder, the new film from Sebastián Lelio (Disobedience, A Fantastic Woman), initially puzzled me. “Why does it start and end like that?” Immediately you get the confusion; the film begins and closes on a soundstage, pushing into and pulling out of a constructed