Tara was a PBS kid who has written 30+ books on TV & film, including The Making of Outlander, The Lost Encyclopedia, The Story of Marvel Studios, and others. Current bylines include SFX Magazine, NBC Insider, Paste, and The A.V. Club, amongst others.
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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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When perusing Kristin Scott Thomas’ impressive C.V. of film, television, and theater roles, it’s very clear that she’s the rare performer who’s been able to maintain a certain je ne sais quoi through the entirety of her career. She exudes a worldliness while being vulnerable, yet
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In early 2026, Starz’s series adaptation of author Diana Gabaldon’s beloved Outlander novels will wrap up with an eighth season and 101 episodes that chart the time-traveling love affair of Highlander Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and former World War II nurse, Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser (Caitríona Balfe). But
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Talk about the galaxy having ironic timing. Andor, Star Wars’ best and most politically engaged streaming series, returns April 22 for its second and final season, and boy, does it hit hard in our current global political climate. Tony Gilroy’s sweeping, inspiring, and incredibly mature prequel series tracks the
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As is often the case in murder mysteries, a man behaved very badly and everyone in his proximity paid dearly. In the BBC and BritBox’s miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, the collateral all told is two murders — Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston) and her estate barrister,
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In the first episode of the BBC and BritBox miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero, there was an abundance of table setting (literally and figuratively) to introduce Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), her assistant Mary (Anjana Vasan) and the ensemble of family and friends who orbit her bed
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It’s been two years since the BBC’s last Agatha Christie miniseries adaptation, Murder is Easy, and our mystery-loving bodies are ready for what’s next. And that is the BBC and BritBox’s Towards Zero. The three-night event is an adaptation of Christie’s 1944 novel about family
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For the entirety of the second season of Apple TV+’s mystery/thriller, Surface, protagonist Sophie Ellis/Tess Caldwell (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) has made it her mission to peel back the proverbial layers of the onion that is the powerful, old monied Huntley family of Britain. Of course, that’s a
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Sony Pictures Classics’ The Penguin Lessons is an adaptation of Tom Michell’s 2016 memoir of the same name about his teaching career in Buenos Aires in 1976 and how his unexpected adoption of a wild penguin changed his life and the lives of the students and teachers around him.
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A lot has happened in the two and a half years since the first season finale of Apple TV+’s mystery/thriller, Surface. However, when protagonist Sophie Ellis/Tess Caldwell (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) returned to Apple TV+, only a few weeks had gone by for her character who, at the end
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Season 1 of Apple TV+'s mystery/thriller Surface introduced audiences to amnesia victim Sophie Ellis (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). A gorgeous, wealthy woman British expat in San Francisco, she wakes up having fallen off a boat with none of her memories. Aside from her seemingly doting husband James (Oliver Jackson-Cohen)
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If you haven’t been paying attention to Daisy Ridley’s career since she last played Rey in 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, then you’ve missed out on the joy of watching the actress prove her talents in a series of really interesting roles in a