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Nicola Walker’s exit from Unforgotten at the end of Season 4 was quickly soothed by the announcement she was leading a new detective series, Annika, where she played the titular DI Annika Strandhed, a wry, speedboat-driving book nerd just hired as the lead of Glasgow’s Marine Homicide Unit.
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The luscious Hotel Portofino is both charming and heartfelt and has an opulent setting, a robust and talented cast, and quiet but compelling stories. As Eagle Eye Drama’s first original English-language drama, it had a lot resting on its gentle shoulders and managed to garner a respectable audience. Centered
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Annika is not the type of series that stands on ceremony or sits around waiting on a lot of preamble. It's part of the benefit of a series where every week is a new case, and there's not much in the way of significant arcs throughout
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Season 2 of World on Fire doesn’t spend any time in recapping Season 1 or bridging the gap of the last three and a half years away, throwing us straight into 1941 and bombing attacks on Manchester. Lois (Julia Brown) and Connie (Yrsa Daley-Ward), once a double musical act
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The second season of PBS’s Hotel Portofino kicks off with some stunning news: It seems the marriage of Lucian and Rose is not going well. I know, I know. Who would have thought that an arranged marriage between two people who have absolutely nothing in common wouldn’t work
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You don’t need me to tell you how awful things are right now. War. Devastating fires and earthquakes. A political landscape that sends shivers down your spine on the daily. If you are looking for TV to provide you with an escape from the world’s terrors, Little Bird
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When the character of "Doc Martin" was initially introduced as Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 film Saving Grace, it is highly doubtful that actor Martin Clunes thought he'd be playing the character nearly a quarter century on, let alone that his role would have become
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When Nicola Walker's lead character, DCI Cassie Stuart, was killed off in Season 4 of Unforgotten, it shocked fans in the U.K. and the U.S. alike. But thankfully, Walker wasn't done being a detective inspector and had already lined up a new fictional precinct
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Van der Valk’s big, messy, magical mystery tour’s second half moves its action to the nightclub owned by Hans Lansing, where Citra and Hendrik are doing shots, and quite honestly, it doesn’t seem the best way to solve a case. Lucienne, who discovered suspect Isaak Engelhart has
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What is justice? It's a question Unforgotten's first two seasons grappled with heavily, with Season 1 failing to stick the landing by trying to address too many cultural issues at once, while Season 2 focused on the reality that many times, justice isn't going
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The most popular of the Walter Presents English-language remakes, Professor T, ends its second season run on PBS on October 8, 2023. This season has been more fun and gripping than the first, with series co-writer Matt Baker allowing the audience to dig into the main character, Professor Jasper Tempest,
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Nicola Walker was born in 1970 in Stepney, East London, England, and began acting classes at the age of 12, in her own words, to meet boys. Both her parents were teachers, but she was the first in the family to attend university, the prestigious New College, Cambridge. She joined