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Our coverage mandate here at Telly Visions – “The Very Best of British TV and Culture” – gives us the latitude to consider not only the cultural output of the entire United Kingdom but also TV series and films better described as British-ish. Australian films? Sure! A Canadian miniseries? Why not? Literally
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July is just around the corner, and with it, the U.K.'s highly anticipated snap election on July 4, ironically, America's Independence Day. For PBS fans, PBS News will have the usual Wednesday News Hour episode with updates on how the voting has gone and any
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Walter Presents (initially called Walter's Choice) came to PBS Passport in 2019 to help fill out the nascent member-based streaming offering, which was the shiny new thing those who support their local stations received along with a mug and tote bag. However, the PBS national brand didn'
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PBS continues to draw dividends from its ongoing relationship with the team from Walter Presents, which also runs Eagle Eye Drama. On the heels of the announcement that Eagle Eye and PBS have greenlit the popular English language remake of Professor T for a fourth season comes word that the
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For those of you who have not looked at the February calendar for 2024 yet, let me be the first to remind you that this is a leap year. Not that one extra day in February does much for television programming other than give those who need to schedule it
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The last holidays of the year are winding down, and with it, the final days of the old year. With January 2024 on the horizon, it's officially the middle of the decade, with the 2020s firmly entrenched in whatever it is they are going to do. The new
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Astrid is heading back to PBS and the Masterpiece Channel on Amazon just in time for the new year, with a new caseload and a whole new set of puzzles to work out with her accidental bestie Raphaëlle as new episodes arrive stateside. The French series, known in its home
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Making a hit television show is not an easy task, even when one is in possession of all the ingredients. A great cast, a concept that's already road-tested, scripts that already work, a production studio full of people who are experienced in what sells and how to market
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We've reached October, and the television season is in full swing here at PBS and on PBS Passport. Sunday nights are packed with British mysteries; Thursdays (for some local stations) have debuted the Canadian Midsomer Murders, while Walter Presents continues to experiment with airing some of its most
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The British remake of Professor T (the fourth version of the 2015 Belgian show of the same name having already been remade in German, French, and Czech) stars Ben Miller as the titular Professor Jasper Tempest, a brilliant criminology professor who becomes a regular consultant for the Cambridge police. Although
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Professor T already had multiple foreign language versions available when Walter Presents chose it as part of the first set of English language remakes for the newly minted Eagle Eye Drama. The original Belgian series ran three seasons from 2015-2018, starring Koen De Bouw as Jasper Teerlinck, aka Professor T.
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Usually, when there's a point in the calendar with new titles thin on the ground for PBS Passport, it's because seasons are mid-way through on linear. However, August 2023 is a bit of an outlier. With Masterpiece prepping for a 12-week, back-to-back one-two punch of Unforgotten/