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Everyone needs that jerk of a friend to force you to celebrate your birthday when you'd rather be wallowing in the misery of the current state of the universe. I've got one (waves at the previous byline), you probably have one, and every vicar in Grantchester
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The sixth installment of Patience, which is the show's Season 1 finale, “Pandora’s Box,” is a story of eco-terrorism and double agents where Metcalf nearly dies. This has been a fun season of television, and I’ll admit my perspective softened after interviewing writer Matt Baker
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Watching a sleeper hit become one of the most popular British shows that airs on PBS always feels a bit miraculous, like seeing a full double rainbow or a meteor shooting across the sky. That goes double if the first season of the show wasn't all that great,
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Atlantic Crossing’s midpoint opens with a scene of a crowd outside the White House protesting America’s involvement in the war after the introduction of the Lend-Lease Bill. Inside, Eleanor Roosevelt reminds her husband that many Americans are disappointed in his actions, and he points out that many
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When James Norton attempted to pull a Dan Stevens on Downton Abbey and refused to sign on to return for Grantchester Season 4, it was deeply unfortunate timing. Much like Julian Fellowes with Stevens, the Grantchester production team assumed this was a ploy for money, and wrote a Season 3
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The dead walk in the penultimate episode of Season 1 of Patience, “My Brother’s Keeper.” The episode uses a flash forward framing device where we start with the most outrageous scene: a body disappearing from the morgue. The corpse seems to have walked off the table rather than being
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Like all the talent I’ve had the fortune of interacting with at Telly Visions, writer Matt Baker is a warm and generous interviewee. Lead writer on Season 1 of Patience, you no doubt also know him from his work on Hotel Portofino, Professor T, and Suspect, to name a
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Since Great Performances rekindled its relationship with The Public Theater and its long-running Shakespeare in the Park summer festival series in the mid-2010s, the recording of the live show has been the endcap of the PBS series' TV season, arriving in early to mid-May. Those who
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If PBS' announcement that Grantchester will end with Season 11 in 2026 feels like the end of an era, that's because it is. The last Masterpiece show still on the air that launched during the Downton Abbey era, Grantchester, was one of the very few series left
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Listen y'all, for once in 2025, I would like an unambiguous piece of good news. No strings, no asterisks, no "well, considering what else is going on...." Just one piece of good news. Instead, after being reminded just how much I love Grantchester after returning to
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The fourth episode of Atlantic Crossing begins as the previous one did: in the White House pool. But this time, Roosevelt swims alone, and we hear his musings on how his life, and his control over it, have been changed. But as the monologue continues, as the President dresses, Missy
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Every vicar in Grantchester comes with their own set of problems. The series' original Hot Priest, Sidney Chambers (James Norton), came with issues straight out of James Runcie's novels: a working-class WWII vet whose ascent to the priesthood elevated him out of his original class status,