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As 2023 rolls in, PBS viewers are gearing up for the new year. Since Masterpiece's mega-hit Downton Abbey turned the second Sunday in January into the debut point for period dramas on public broadcast, most local PBS stations now unofficially run programming on a calendar year schedule instead
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It's a new year for the world and a new year of shows on PBS and PBS Passport. Since the debut of Downton Abbey Season 2 in 2012, January has been *the* place for Masterpiece's PBS premieres, from period piece dramas like Victoria and Sanditon making
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The holidays are officially here, with Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday all inundating our inboxes. With the significant holidays spread across the December landscape, it's the time of year when everyone gets into the Very Special Episode action. Marathons of Christmas-themed editions of
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The final episode of Magpie Murders is packed with revelations from the Alan Conway whodunit and the story of what happened to the author himself. In a change of pace, instead of the story starting in the real world, either present-day or a flashback, this week's finale begins
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
When PBS Masterpiece announced earlier this year that Season 3 of the popular mystery series Miss Scarlet and the Duke would arrive on our screens just a scant two months after the conclusion of its second, fans were over the moon — and rightly so! Thanks to a delayed renewal and
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This week’s episode of Magpie Murders again opens with a flashback to 2015, and Alan Conway is leading a writing workshop. He reads an excerpt from his manuscript, The Slide, and encourages the class to comment. Lee Jaffrey (remember him?) ventures some mild praise, but another participant says he
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The third episode of Magpie Murders begins not in the present or the fictional past but in a flashback. Seven years earlier, Susan Ryeland and Alan Conway are in the midst of a vigorous disagreement. Alan has written a flashback scene about a young Atticus Pünd in a Nazi concentration
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PBS's Sunday fall lineup from Masterpiece didn't roll out until mid-October, so most of this season's British arrivals only landed on Passport two weeks ago. That being said, with the holidays just around the corner, some U.K. treats are heading to streaming for
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As this second installment of Magpie Murders begins, viewers are plunged right back into Alan Conway’s final Atticus Pünd novel. We learn that a second death has occurred in Saxby-on-Avon at Pye Hall, and there’s no doubt this one is murder. The lord of the manor, Sir Magnus
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PBS’ newest mystery series, Magpie Murders, opens with a montage of Alan Conway Conleth Hill) struggling to produce chapter after chapter in his latest whodunit in the wildly popular Atticus Pünd series. (Think Poirot, but German rather than Belgian.) Once the novel is completed, Conway snaps his fountain pen, splattering
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Spooky season is a time for murder, mayhem, and blood, and since airing Grantchester and Baptiste back to back last year, Masterpiece has been getting in on the action. For 2022, the station is going all out on witches, killers, and death; oh my! Everything that's coming to
Royals
The passing of Queen Elizabeth II is a monumental event for the United Kingdom and the world at large. Born in 1926, she was a cultural touchstone through decades of change and uncertainty and a steadying force at the center of her own family's dramas. She reigned for