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Channel 5 has announced the commission of a new cozy-crime series, The Puzzle Lady, based on the best-selling series of novels by the late Parnell Hall (1944-2020). Described as "Miss Marple on steroids" or "Jessica Fletcher meets Groucho Marx." Hall started publishing the series with A
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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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After two seasons and a whole lot of waiting and hype... well, that was a lot of build-up for nothing. The series finale of Scottish fan favorite Guilt opts for the least exciting outcomes in nearly all the story threads, and much of that can be attributed to the decision
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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,
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If Guilt proves one thing, it’s that the Brothers McCall are hard to kill. It’s the third episode of the final season, and once again, Max and Jake escape with their lives, Max having talked Teddy into joining forces. Although Teddy expected Maggie to pay him for the
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Guilt has a penchant for starting with characters you’ve never seen before, which is annoying when you’re trying to wrap things up. In its second episode, we meet possible pill addict Aliza (Tamsin Topolski) – though her name is never actually spoken. A no-nonsense American at a large investment
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Guilt’s Season 3 premiere catches up with self-serving, shady Max McCall (Mark Bonnar) a year after setting up mobster Roy Lynch (Stuart Bowman) to be killed and escaping Edinburgh. Max and his dopey brother Jake (Jamie Sives) live above Jake’s bar in Chicago. Even farther from the cushy
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We've discussed the "Twin Film" phenomenon before here at Telly Visions. In 2022, David Tennant and Benedict Cumberbatch both signed on to play Alexander Litvinenko in dueling miniseries, Litvinenko and Londongrad. That wound up not amounting to much as the former wound up on Sundance Now
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We start the finale of Guilt where we left off at the end of the last episode, with Maggie, Jake, and Max in a warehouse. Maggie delivers a lovely monologue about family, with a flashback to Jake and Max parting ways before the elder McCall got arrested. Maggie said it
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The penultimate episode of Guilt Season 2 picks up with Max and Erin glossing over the previous evening and moving straight to bringing down Roy Lynch. Max talks to Roy about working on Phoenix while Erin tells her mother she’s leaving Edinburgh. Maggie admits she’s been meeting Roy
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The second episode of Guilt Season 2 opens with a flashback. At the Phoenix Estate Development, a young man presents a proposal for the New Leith project. He gets turned down because his projected costs are too high, but on his way past the building site, another bright idea occurs
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In Guilt Season 1, we met Edinburgh lawyer Max McCall (Mark Bonnar) and his brother Jake (Jamie Sives). It all began when Jake struck and killed an elderly pedestrian with Max's car. Desperate to avoid a scandal, Max insisted they carry the deceased pensioner back to his nearby