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It’s been three and a half years since Season 1 of World on Fire aired, despite Season 2 being greenlit before the PBS premiere, as filming on two continents during a pandemic proved impossible. With a large cast and a storyline that encompassed the confusion, pain, and horror of
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While most of the content PBS tends to pick up from overseas tends to come from the U.K. with the occasional title from Australia, New Zealand, or France, sometimes a show comes wandering down from our neighbor to the north, which is still part of the Commonwealth and even
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It's been a minute since the hijinks of Prime Minister Robert Sutherland (Robert Carlyle) and his hapless Tory cabinet have faced random world-ending crises from Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, aka a COBRA. The second season, subtitled "Cyberwar," aired on Sky TV at the end of
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PBS has finally released the trailer for Hotel Portofino Season 2, and, unlike public broadcast's typical thirty-second or one-minute clips, this is a nice long extended version, running almost three minutes. Unlike Season 1, which was edited to feel more like an ensemble piece with all the guests
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As mentioned in our roundup of British-produced films coming to the Toronto International Film Festival, the Channel 4-produced series Alice & Jack would be part of the titles headlining the festival's “Primetime” section. A relatively recent addition to TIFF, this showcase of prestige TV series includes award contenders
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“Redemption in Amsterdam,” Van der Valk’s second case for Season 3, deals with the past and how it impacts the present. A horrific case from 20 years ago still haunts our titular detective, and even though the murderer confessed and has paid the price for her crime, questions remain.
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Last week's episode of Unforgotten Season 5 ended with the hilarious shot of DCI Jess James muttering "Dick" under her breath at Sunny Khan, and it's hard to disagree she's wrong. With all sympathies to his grieving, James' assessment of Sunny&
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The British have been exporting their cultural capital since William Shakespeare first hit the big time in the 1600s, and it seems that every century, they add to the list. While not all have stuck, the 1900s brought Agatha Christie, whose popularity and prolific output have made her a staple
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Masterpiece announced it had acquired the ITV drama Nolly in January 2023 as part of a more extensive slate of 2023-2024 premieres. At the time, the three-part series had not yet premiered in the U.K. — it debuted a couple of weeks later in February — and it seemed a possibility
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Now that the Season 5 Unforgotten premiere determined the deceased's body was stuffed up a chimney recently enough for government funding, the second episode starts with a meeting in DCI Jess James' office. It will surprise no one that this, too, is deliberately staged to be the
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Masterpiece has released the first images from The Marlow Murder Club, its latest co-commission with UKTV. The series is an adaptation of author Robert Thorogood’s best-selling novels; he is best known as the series creator of Death in Paradise, which has been a smashing success since its debut in
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The outstanding documentary series about the Troubles, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, aired on most local PBS stations at the end of August 2023, with all five episodes available on PBS Passport. Through the deeply personal reflections of the series’ interview subjects, viewers get to know the contours