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ITV to Tell the Tragic Real-Life Story of 'Mavis Eccleston'
ITV's latest true crime dramatization will ask uncomfortable quesitons about love and assisted dying.
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'Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale' Closes the Crawley Era with Class
Downton Abbey and its fans have had a good run. Since the series debuted on PBS Masterpiece in 2011, there have been six seasons and two feature films' worth of Crawley family intrigues, affairs, deaths, and everyday existence to sate the most ardent of Anglophiles. However, the passing in
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The Final Hats of 'Downton Abbey'
Downton Abbey was the beginning of a new era on PBS when it debuted, even though no one knew it at the time. Meant as a truncated one-and-done miniseries when it premiered in the depths of winter in 2011, the series became a word-of-mouth sensation via burgeoning social media. By
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'Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale's Posters Give a Last Look at Fan Favorites
One of our favorite traditions for Downton Abbey was the release of the yearly "Character Posters" that would arrive every season like clockwork, a few weeks before the new season premiered. (Longtime fans may recall the uproar that occurred one year when the image of Lord Grantham and
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'Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale' Trailer Hits Right in the Feels
Not every fan of Downton Abbey knows that the series theme song has a name and lyrics, beyond just "The Downton Abbey Suite." When the original soundtrack was released in the UK in 2011, it included a version of the track titled "Did I Make the Most
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The First Teaser for 'Downton Abbey's' "Grand Finale" Is a Delight
We've officially reached the 100-day mark until the release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the third and, as the title desperately insists, final big-screen installment* of the beloved franchise that began 15 years ago on ITV and PBS. A series that consistently surprised both producers and critics
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Third & Final 'Downton Abbey' Film Christened "The Grand Finale"
Downton Abbey is revving up for one more round of storytelling on the big screen, but after this, the story is done. Thus proclaims the third movie's new title, Downton Abbey: The Grande Finale, revealed by Focus Features along with the poster key art for the film. The
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Next 'Downton Abbey' Film To Hit Theaters in 2025
The problem with writing about the forthcoming third Downton Abbey movie is that there's not much to write about. The newest installment of what has become a surprisingly long-lived feature film series since the first Downton Abbey movie was a blockbuster in 2019 began filming in the waning
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'Downton Abbey 3' Officially Announced
It was mid-March 2024 when Imelda Staunton broke the embargo on the third Downton Abbey film, confirming a third (and she claimed "final") movie was in the works. Staunton was not in the original show's cast, but her long-time husband, Jim Carter, starred as the butler,
Classics Revisited
Classics Revisited: 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles’ 1969 postmodern novel, achieved the impossible – a literary work lauded by academics and a popular bestseller. The novel used all the tricks and techniques of a Victorian classic, the author’s voice ever-present, with footnotes, epigraphs, and digressions into whatever he considered significant.
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‘Murder is Easy’ is a Sublime Diverse Agatha Christie Adaptation
In 1954, Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) meets Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton) on a London-bound train and learns of suspicious deaths in the opening scenes of Murder is Easy, the newest Agatha Christie adaptation from the BBC and BritBox. A sumptuous visual feast, this two-part limited series excels at adapting a
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Agatha Christie's 'Murder Is Easy' to Ease in to U.S. in March
It's been just over three years since Sarah Phelps ended her run as the BBC's appointed scribe for Agatha Christie adaptations with 2020's The Pale Horse, a series done in conjunction with Amazon's Prime Video. Since then, the BBC has moved to