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Last week's COBRA ended on a cliffhanger: How and why did an irradiated corpse turn up in a truck in the center of London? A meeting between Prime Minister Robert Sutherland and his top team, Home Secretary Joseph Obasi, Foreign Secretary Archie Glover-Morgan, MI5 Director Eleanor James,
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The latest episode of Grantchester opens to a scene of Will being flirted with by female parishioners set to Frankie Avalon's "Venus." It's been far too long since we had a church-set episode and Will dealing with the snark and gossip of the
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The Television Critics Association press tour dedicates two days to PBS' myriad offerings, with one of the leading slots going to Masterpiece. This year, the anthology series trumpeted the ongoing hits All Creatures Great and Small and Miss Scarlet and The Duke, and the highly anticipated Magpie Murders, which
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It's official: We'll all be going back to the Yorkshire Dales for a new season of All Creatures Great and Small just after New Year's. Wedding bells chime and animal ailments abound in the highly anticipated third season of the cozy period drama, which
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When Miss Scarlet and the Duke initially premiered in 2021 on PBS' Masterpiece, it occupied the regular 10 p.m. time slot usually reserved for mystery series during the busy times of the TV season, airing post All Creatures Great and Small Season 1 in January. The delay in
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Scottish thriller Guilt will officially return to the Masterpiece this August, but Season 2 of the darkly comedic series will look slightly different than its first. Season 1 followed the story of Max (Mark Bonnar) and Jake (Jamie Silves), a pair of bumbling brothers who accidentally kill a man while
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What fresh new hell can be introduced in this episode of COBRA? So far, Robert Sutherland's Britain has lost a chunk of Kent in an explosion/tsunami; there's been a significant security hack (Ruin Britannia). A Russian oligarch has been assassinated, and there's the
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I appreciate what Grantchester is trying to do with opening Episode 3 to "Lonesome Town" as Will and Geordie strugglebus through their breakups. Still, since Pulp Fiction, I haven't been able to take that song seriously. It's hard to take Will's mope
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It's the end of the first season of Hotel Portofino. Despite a clunky debut episode, the show was able to right the ship. The finale begins with a beautiful sunny morning. It's the sort that makes you feel like going for a swim, sketching a stunning
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PBS is presenting an all-female detective lineup this Fall, and the show firmly ensconced at the center of this block of mystery programming is the highly anticipated new series Magpie Murders. Based on the 2016 novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and adapted by the same, the story is
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Episode 2 of COBRA Season 2 opens with the aftermath of the explosion at sea, which has caused immense amounts of damage, extensive flooding, and hundreds of deaths, including that of the local Member of Parliament, with many more missing. The only communication is by mobile phone, straining the system.
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Despite having had sex with her exactly once, Grantchester begins with Will lying on the floor of the church, declaring his undying love for Maya and begging God to tell him what to do. It's very Will, as is meeting her in secret to tell her it will