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Mystery
As viewers may remember last time Vienna Blood was on the air, Season 2 left things on a cliffhanger. However, it's been a year since then, both in our time and theirs. Since viewers were last in Edwardian Vienna, Max has written a best seller on the subject
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
After the disappointment of the Season 3 premiere, Miss Scarlet & the Duke fully returns to form with this second episode, an hour that features some of the best character work from the show in ages. There's a lot to love about "Arabella's," an
All Creatures Great and Small
The opening sequence of All Creatures Great and Small Season 3 echoes the series premiere as James drives his car through the spectacular green scenery that impressed him when he first arrived. But this time, he pulls over to watch a plane flying low overhead, captivated by the pilot’s
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
It's worth saying: The cold open for Miss Scarlet & the Duke's Season 3 premiere is one of the best sequences the show's ever done. Not only is the image of Eliza, Ivy, Clementine, some dude named Sampson, and Mr. Potts, of all people
Sherlock
Few things are certain in this life, except death, taxes, and the fact that someone, somewhere is bound to ask Steven Moffat about the prospect of there ever being more Sherlock. To be fair, it makes sense: The series was a critical and pop culture phenomenon, making stars of its
PBS
Success begets success in the TV industry. In the U.K., there are very few police procedurals that have reached the levels of Line of Duty, the Jed Mercutio series about the internal investigations into its fictionalized Birmingham police force. Mercutio's HTM Television (Hat Trick Mercurio Ltd) has
Mystery
Vienna Blood didn't premiere at the most auspicious time, arriving in January 2020 just ahead of the pandemic shutdown and with a lead-in of Masterpiece's first season of Sanditon, which was already canceled before it arrived. With Austria (where the show is filmed) in lockdown, it
All Creatures Great and Small
It was peak timing when the All Creatures Great and Small reboot debuted its first season in the winter of 2021. The first miserable lockdown of winter required the bright and sunny dales of Yorkshire and the notes of comfort and hope the show provided. James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) was
Call the Midwife
Though we may have only just celebrated the festive season with our favorite midwives and nuns of Nonnatus House on Call the Midwife, the time has come to turn our thoughts toward the next proper season of the show. Because while Season 12 — yes, really! — won’t arrive in America
Walter Presents
At the 2020 Oscars, Bong Joon Ho famously called out Americans specifically (and the English-speaking world at large) for "the bigotry of one-inch subtitles." However, there was already one man on the case. Walter Iuzzolino, the man behind the Channel 4 streaming anthology franchise Walter Presents, had started
PBS
As 2023 rolls in, PBS viewers are gearing up for the new year. Since Masterpiece's mega-hit Downton Abbey turned the second Sunday in January into the debut point for period dramas on public broadcast, most local PBS stations now unofficially run programming on a calendar year schedule instead
Tom Jones
As we look toward 2023, PBS Masterpiece is busily slotting all the pieces in place for another year of excellent British TV. All Creatures Great and Small, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, and Vienna Blood all return for their respective third seasons starting in January, and March will see the