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All Creatures Great and Small
The second episode of All Creatures Great and Small Season 2 opens with a visitor to Skeldale House, divorcee Diana Brompton (Dorothy Atkinson). She’s selling tickets for that evening’s Daffodil Ball, an event to raise funds for the restoration of the church steeple. She warms up by flirting
Around the World in 80 Days
Peril and adventure abound as we enter week three of Around the World in 80 Days! Last time, we witnessed a heart-stopping rescue in the Italian countryside. Phileas Fogg and company gathered all their courage and skill to guide a steam train over a ravine to save a young
All Creatures Great and Small
All Creatures Great and Small Season 2 may have just arrived on most PBS stations this past weekend, but the series is already gearing up for more. Ahead of the show's premiere on Sunday, Jan. 9, co-producers Masterpiece and Channel 5 confirmed that not only was Season
All Creatures Great and Small
You have to be made of stone if watching James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) gently tend to an injured pet on the surprise Masterpiece hit All Creatures Great and Small doesn’t make you sigh. But as Season 2 opens, surprise - we’re not in Darrowby anymore. Instead, James is helping
Around the World in 80 Days
Welcome back to leg two of our journey Around the World in 80 Days! Last week you may recall that one Phileas Fogg has accepted a rather large bet to circumnavigate the globe in a mere 80 days. Joined by a determined female journalist and a well-traveled, but mysterious
All Creatures Great and Small
All Creatures Great and Small returns this Sunday for a second season. The first season, which aired in January of 2021, was a surprise hit for PBS and Masterpiece, bringing mainstream audiences to the Yorkshire Dales the same way Downton Abbey once did for grand houses and posh estates. But
Vienna Blood
The return of Vienna Blood to the mystery pantheon of PBS is another chance at making the Frank Tallis-penned series a hit in the states. The show has a lot of things going for it, despite the Sherlock Holmes-esque nature of its leading man and the very stereotypical
Sanditon
When ITV and PBS debuted Sanditon, based on Jane Austen's final unfinished novel, in 2019/2020, it seemed much like most Austen novels. Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) was the plucky heroine looking for love. Sidney Parker (Theo James) was the hero she would clash with until she realized
Around the World in 80 Days
Welcome as we embark on the adventure that is recapping the newest adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days! For the next eight weeks we’ll relive the exhilarating, and often dangerous, travels of wealthy explorer Phileas Fogg (David Tennant), his valet Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma), and intrepid journalist Abigail&
The Gilded Age
A new year, a new beginning for the streaming wars for our eyeballs. After two years of endless streaming services debuts, this is the first year where we might see the numbers dwindle as the mergers begin. But until that starts, there's a laundry list of places with
Culture
After the 2020 Hollywood shutdown and U.K. lockdowns blew up filming on nearly everything worldwide, 2021 was never going to be normal, especially for PBS, whose anthology series Masterpiece and Walter's Choice are almost exclusively dependant on overseas imports by design. But the year wasn't
Call the Midwife
Happy Christmas, everyone! There’s so much to cover in this extended holiday episode of Call the Midwife. It’s full of classic family Christmas traditions, for sure. But viewers are also treated to hoodlums, a handful of tricky deliveries for the midwives and if that’s not enough, a