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It's Christmas time in Poplar in 1969 when Call the Midwife returns for the annual Christmas special — and this year, we've got a double helping! The nuns and medical staff of Nonnatus House are preparing for the holiday season while also helping out the hospital, which
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It's an early Christmas present (or Hanukkah gift, if you prefer) as Masterpiece releases the full official trailer for All Creatures Great & Small on the Monday before Christmas, the last workday for many Americans before the holiday commences. For those who have been impatiently waiting since the
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We've reached the halfway mark of the third decade of the 21st century, and while things are not anything like people said the future would be, there have been bright spots. One of those bright spots is the rise of prestige TV, a subset of high-end programming that
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PBS Passport members are most likely aware of the German buddy cop series known in the States as Luna + Sophie, which started streaming here in the spring of 2022. The timing was fortuitous, as it arrived on the platform within days of Annika, which Masterpiece initially launched as an early
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Over on Walter Presents, Astrid (Astrid et Raphaëlle) is hitting peak popularity, as the series' fourth season is handed the honor of kicking off the foreign language anthology series' 2025 slate at the beginning of January. However, the true sign of a Walter Presents series officially being a
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There are very few things one can count on in the television landscape, especially when it comes to British TV. There will always eventually be a new season of Doctor Who, for example (even if it takes a decade or two). The BBC will ask if you have a television
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Wolf Hall originally aired on PBS in 2015, during the year that saw the rise of the phrases "Prestige TV" and "Peak TV." For those unaware, "Peak TV" is a phrase coined by FX CEO John Landgraf to describe the current era of programming
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Depending on how you feel about the way Sherlock Holmes has spawned seemingly infinite adaptations, he might feel like a comforting old friend or a stain that won’t come out. To Sherlock’s author, Arthur Conan Doyle, it was almost certainly the latter. That twisted relationship between creator and
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For the second time in 2024, there is good news on the streaming wars front, as those succeeding services start pulling away from those that will not. As I recently noted in our Gangs of London Season 3 post, this is a frustrating time for TV fans when series that
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Last week, Thomas Cromwell did the right thing for the country. This week, his choice comes back to bite him.
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We have reached the final round-up of 2024, a year I think many of us will be happy to see the back of. But the year is not over yet; there's still an entire December to get through. Luckily, PBS (and its various streaming services) has plenty of
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From antiquity to the Blitz, monarchs to suffragists, presenter Lucy Worsley’s British history expertise knows no bounds. Though she began her career as a curator and inspector of historic buildings, her passion for making history accessible to the public landed her first documentary appearance in 2009’s Inside the