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With an Early Season 3 Renewal, PBS Is Betting Big on 'The Forsytes'
Get ready to spend a lot of time with this sprawling nineteenth-century family.
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'The Forsytes' Trailer Promises a Sprawling Tale of Family, Ambition & Love
Masterpiece has released the trailer for its forthcoming new adaptation, The Forsytes, which aims to update the classic story of The Forsyte Saga for a new generation. John Galsworthy's Nobel Prize-winning book series has already been adapted for television twice, both of which are still generally considered to
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The British Actor Studded 'Death by Lightning' Will Strike Netflix in November
It's a truth universally acknowledged that there aren't enough American period dramas. Sure, U.S. audiences enjoy watching historical shows — Downton Abbey was a massive hit here, and the steadily growing success of The Gilded Age is nothing so much as a sign that we should
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'The Forsytes' Character Posters Are Swoon-Worthy
It’s been a minute since Masterpiece went full-court press for an upcoming all-star costume drama, at least in the way it used to do for Downton Abbey back in the day. Viewers couldn’t get enough of the Granthams, and images from filming used to cross the pond regularly,
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'Outlander' Star Joins 'The Forsytes' as Season 2 Filming Begins
Masterpiece has confirmed that its forthcoming period drama The Forsytes will be sticking around for a while. Though this new adaptation of John Galsworthy's Nobel Prize-winning book series The Forsyte Saga has yet to premiere on either side of the pond — and won't for a few
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'Death By Lightning' Will Bring James Garfield's Assassination to Life
Although Americans, as a general rule, love British period dramas, we don't necessarily make many of our own. There are, of course, some notable exceptions. The 1939 Civil War drama Gone with the Wind remains one of the most popular movies of all time, and more recent efforts,
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'The Forsytes' Officially Rechristened with Season 2 Commission
Coverage of the Channel 5 rebrand rollout on March 12, 2025, focused heavily on the U.K. network's original offerings like The Madame Blanc Mysteries and the mass import of Paramount+ series that the streaming service is picking up along with the merging of linear Channel 5 and
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Masterpiece Completes Its Sprawling 'The Forsyte Saga' Cast
Though many of us may poke gentle fun at shows like HBO's The Gilded Age for their constantly expanding cast rosters the truth is that part of the appeal of period drama, as a genre, is its expansive sense of scope. From recreating the technical details of specific
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The First Look at 'The Forsyte Saga' Sees 'Doctor Who' Companion Millie Gibson Step Back In Time
Period dramas can run the gamut when it comes to scope, tone, and subject. However, there are a handful that are continually held up as examples of the best of what the genre can be and do: Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth'
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'The Forsyte Saga' Remake Cast Revealed with Francesca Annis & Millie Gibson
The first signs of a new remake of The Forsyte Saga appeared on production listings at the beginning of April 2024. While there had been rumors before about the series returning to television, the pre-production announcements were the first sign the project was getting off the ground, with Mammoth Productions
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'Our House' is a Very-Very-Very Fine House, But a Not-So-Good Series
Based on the 2018 Sunday Times bestseller novel of the same name by Louise Candlish, Our House was adapted by Simon Ashdown (Eastenders) and directed by Sheree Folkson (Bridgerton) for Red Planet Pictures/ITV back in 2022. The four-episode show originally debuted on PBS Passport for members in May 2023,
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'Our House' To Air On PBS In August
The title Our House for a certain generation will conjure up either 1960s sitcoms or old MTV videos and new wave Madness, but here in 2023, it's not in the middle of our street, but on PBS. The ITV "real estate thriller" series, based on Louise