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The Great British Baking Show may have managed to stay popular despite moving to Netflix and changing out judges to Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. However, fans wistfully sigh for OG judge Mary Berry when the series returns every year and ask what she's up to. The answer
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Miss Scarlet and the Duke did back-to-back seasons in 2022/2023 due to the funky renewal and filming delays of the pandemic and a desire by PBS' Masterpiece, which took over as lead producer, to get episodes out to fans. However, the resulting year off between the
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We've reached the halfway point of Annika's second season, and the most prominent life crisis on the table, telling Michael he's Morgan's father without blowing everything to smithereens, has been accomplished. No one is suing anyone for custody, no one quit their
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World on Fire’s Season 2 mid-point picks up in Libya, where Harry rejoins his regiment. The Seige of Tobruk is getting dire, with control of Alexandria and Suez and supply routes to Britain at stake, and Churchill himself has ordered that positions must be held. Captain Briggs orders
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Well, well, well, it seems like Cecil might finally (finally!) get his comeuppance in this week’s Hotel Portofino. Our not-so-favorite snake in the grass has gotten himself into quite a predicament. His Italian business partners from Detroit (a nice euphemism for the mafia) are tired of waiting
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Annika picks up not quite two weeks after last week's disastrous open-mic experience. Honestly, I'm not sure what Annika thinks she's doing. The obvious answer is opening a deck chair on the roof to enjoy an ice cream, but it's all
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We return to World on Fire as the war in North Africa rages. A wounded Harry is sent to the hospital in Cairo while Stan joins Rajib and his men in retreat. It’s an awkward situation, as the British army practices an “equal but different” policy, leaving Stan uncomfortable
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We didn’t really think Nish would die, did we? (I’ll admit I was slightly nervous. This is, after all, the same network that killed off Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey.) Thankfully, almost immediately, we see Nish peeking out in the back of a wagon. Eventually, it’s revealed
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We've reached November, and the holidays are just around the corner. World on Fire, Annika, and Hotel Portofino are half over, and the Christmas specials are going to be descending upon us in a month or so. Sunday nights are packed with British mysteries; Thursdays (for some local
Marie Antoinette
Prepare to return to the world of Versailles: production on the second season of period drama Marie Antoinette is officially underway. The news comes alongside that the BBC has once again scooped up rights to broadcast Season 2 in the U.K. However, details about what fans can expect from
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This week's episode of Annika opens by Forth Bridge in Edinburgh. This week's body's being fished out of the drink just as this week's novel, Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott, is being fished out of Annika'
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World on Fire Season 2's second episode opens with Harry arriving in the North African desert, where he’s greeted by his sergeant Stan Raddick, and the two of them resume their sarcastic banter. Harry is introduced to Rajib — “Same rank as you, but more convincing” — as Stan