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Marriage is what brings us together today. But this series, streaming now on PBS Passport, is not a blessed arrangement. The show feels long for only four one-hour episodes, aiming for a slow-burn slice-of-life portrait of long-term married couple Ian (Sean Bean) and Emma (Nicola Walker). However, it drowns the
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Grantchester Season 7 ended with a surprise wedding after the Reverend William Davenport begged Bonnie Evans to stay in Grantchester and try to make a relationship work. Fans were startled at the sudden rush to the altar — though in the early 1960s, it was not as sudden as it felt
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May has arrived, and with it, a major announcement. The Walter's Choice deluge of the last six months is finally ending. The massive wave of titles coming every Thursday since the end of November was part of PBS Passport catching up to its Masterpiece Channel cousin over on
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Earth Day originated in the 1960s as those who jumped on the climate change bandwagon tried to draw attention to how humans affected the environment. In 1969, Wisconsin environmental activist Sen. Gaylord Nelson came up with the idea to hold a nationwide ecological teach-in on April 22, 1970, known as
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April showers may bring May flowers, but they also tend to drive people indoors to watch TV. It's a good time of year for it. With award nominations dancing in their heads, all the industry's major players are putting forward their best shows. On PBS and
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Louise Candlish's Our House had barely won the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller Book of the Year when Red Planet Pictures (Death In Paradise) came calling, looking to adapt the best-selling "real estate thriller" for TV. ITV picked up the four-part series for a commission
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Though many fans are likely still grieving Nicola Walker's exit from the popular mystery series Unforgotten, the actress hasn't been a stranger on PBS programs in the months since her departure, thanks to her starring role in Annika. Now, she's got another new drama
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PBS Passport is once again bringing members shows before they stream on linear. Season 1 of the British remake of Walter's Choice fan-favorite Before We Die (Innan vi Dör) debuted on most linear PBS stations in March 2022 alongside Call The Midwife and Sanditon Season 2. For 2023,
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Spring arrives on March 20, but PBS will have it beat this year, with its yearly trio of Spring 2023 premieres debuting the night before on Sunday, March 19. However, linear debuts are merely the tip of the iceberg nowadays when it comes to programming, and shows are busting out
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As the shortest month on the calendar, February doesn't have much going for it other than being over faster. Besides Valentine's Day and the occasional Marvel movie, entertainment hits the doldrums during the calendar's metaphorical month of Tuesdays. Movie studios either put out cloying
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Success begets success in the TV industry. In the U.K., there are very few police procedurals that have reached the levels of Line of Duty, the Jed Mercutio series about the internal investigations into its fictionalized Birmingham police force. Mercutio's HTM Television (Hat Trick Mercurio Ltd) has
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At the 2020 Oscars, Bong Joon Ho famously called out Americans specifically (and the English-speaking world at large) for "the bigotry of one-inch subtitles." However, there was already one man on the case. Walter Iuzzolino, the man behind the Channel 4 streaming anthology franchise Walter Presents, had started