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Have you seen Almost Famous? It’s Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical film about the experiences of "William," a teenage music journalist writing for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s. At one point, William has gotten himself in a terrible bind: he’s been on the road with
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It’s the little things in life that often give the greatest satisfaction. All Creatures Great & Small opens with Richard Carmody, who is thrilled to receive a box of goat droppings in the mail, which he shows to everyone at breakfast. He and Siegfried offered their clientele the chance
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Surprise, Miss Scarlet Season 5 is almost over. (Yes, really!) This may come as a shock to some, given that it feels as though we've barely had any time at all to adjust to this revamped incarnation of the series or to get to know the new leading
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One of the biggest series of 2023 in the U.K. was the BBC series The Gold. Initially imagined as a limited series, the six-part small-screen dramatization of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery was a star-studded affair, full of PBS favorites, as is befitting of a
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Marie Antoinette may never have said, “Let Them Eat Cake,” but history seems obsessed with her anyway. The extraordinarily wealthy and somewhat traumatized young bride of Louis XVI lived a life of extremes, little parenting, and less help in adulting; she buried herself in beauty and comfort until the populace
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Vienna Blood is (probably) dead; long live Vienna Blood. The pre-Great War murder mystery series featuring the highly effective odd couple of young British Freudian Dr. Max Liebermann and veteran Viennese homicide detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt’s fourth season wrapped up on PBS at the end of January, and
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Sophie Straw (née Barbara Parker and played by Gemma Arterton) just wants to exercise her judgment in both professional and personal matters. Why is that so hard? That’s rhetorical; I know why it’s hard: there would be no TV show without this central conflict and journey, and it
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Tristan Farnon relates a hair-raising wartime encounter as All Creatures Great & Small reaches the season's halfway point. James and Helen listen enthralled to his story, which builds to a tense climax when he recounts how he felt a pistol at his back. But the notorious prankster
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So long and fare thee well to Patrick Nash. Miss Scarlet springs the morally gray private detective from prison for one last case in "The Deal" before putting him on a boat to Australia for (presumably?) good. The show gives him a fairly great send-off in an
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Out of all the British series coming to American shores in 2025, the return of Wolf Hall to PBS, a decade after the series initially debuted, might be the most anticipated. The original series covered the two books released by Hilary Mantel at the time, Wolf Hall and Bringing Up
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We are in a golden age of murder mysteries on TV. Cozy crime like Grantchester, Father Brown, and Death in Paradise are all hitting double-digit seasons. Meanwhile, more highbrow fare aims to do something different with the genre, from Agatha Christie reimaginings like Murder Is Easy to upcoming comedy
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Before the season premiere for Vienna Blood’s fourth and likely final season, lead actors Matthew Beard (Dr. Max Liebermann) and Juergen Maurer (Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt) spent about an hour thoughtfully answering press questions about their characters’ arcs, the series' distressingly timely historical resonances, and the joy it brings