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Orphan Black: Echoes, the highly anticipated spin-off of BBC America's accidental hit Orphan Black, has finally released the official trailer after months and months of speculation. However, despite what should be an obvious premise — that star Krysten Ritter is the new clone, all this has happened before, and
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With Doctor Who's much-ballyhooed move to the greener ($$$) pastures of Disney+, Luther decamping for Netflix, and Holby City and many soaps older favorites now on BritBox, there have been few reasons to pay attention to BBC America. Sure, it still has fantastic nature content — Attenborough and Planet Earth
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David Attenborough was already an institution unto himself when he was originally knighted in 1985 after his groundbreaking documentary series Life series became a breakout hit on the BBC and PBS in the early 1980s. He then redoubled that place in history with his second groundbreaking series, Planet Earth, not
Doctor Who
It turns out you can go home again, after all. At least in the Whoniverse, anyway. David Tennant originally took over as the Doctor beginning with the 2005 Doctor Who Christmas special, "The Christmas Invasion." He remained in the role for the next four years, helping the series
Orphan Black
It's been over a decade since Orphan Black premiered in March 2013 on BBC America. Viewers may not remember that the weird little Canadian series starring the then-unknown Tatiana Maslany started out as a series about a con-artist who takes over the life of someone who happens to
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The Planet Earth series has been Sir David Attenborough's crowning achievement of the 21st century, much like Life on Earth was his crowning achievement of the 20th. The BBC naturalist, who has been presenting the wonders of the planet to audiences huddled at home in their living rooms
Happy Valley
If you think about it, Happy Valley has sort of been like Heat, just more Northern and less neon. Stay with me here: they’re both dramas about the exhaustive effects of pursuit, how justice and crime become so ingrained they harm all your relationships, and have a hero and
Happy Valley
Where do we stand with Happy Valley with one episode left in Season 3, not to mention the series? The main themes and conflicts have been refined down to sharp points. The chess pieces have been shuffled for the climactic finale. Although none of the developments seem improper or inappropriate,
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After last week’s action-packed climax, things cool down slightly for Sergeant Catherine Cawood, just so they can ramp up again in the season’s most explosive moment yet. Before we got to Tommy Lee Royce’s dramatic escape from Leeds’ high court, the heat was dialed up on several
Happy Valley
In this week’s Happy Valley, the walls seem to be closing in. Like the other seasons, our perennially pissed-off protagonist Sergeant Catherine Cawood is kept mainly in the dark about the central crime storyline going on; her problems are more personal as the tension mounts up regarding “our Ryan”
Happy Valley
By now, we’re all familiar with how Happy Valley likes to kick things off. An oddball, unusual crime (involving addicts, delinquents, and often an animal or appliance) unfolds somewhere across Yorkshire’s Calder Valley, and our beleaguered, no-nonsense, and quick-witted Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) must deescalate it, accompanied
Happy Valley
Season 2 of the celebrated Yorkshire police drama Happy Valley starts as it means to go on: with Sergeant Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) absolutely worn out. Over a cuppa with her sister Clare (Siobhan Finneran), she recounts an escapade with a kidnapped sheep rampaging across town pursued by local dogs