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Starz may not have another Phillipa Gregory adaptation coming anytime soon, but the network isn't letting go of its premium-cable period-piece mantle anytime soon. Between Becoming Elizabeth and The Serpent Queen, there is plenty of historical royalty and female rulers. Plus, the channel has finally set a release
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Every so often, a new BBC series comes along that's so chock full of recognizable stars that it's akin to watching a remix of your favorite British shows. For 2022, that series is Sherwood, the fictionalized retelling of real-life events in the mining village of Annesley
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The Capture first debuted in America on Peacock during the heart of the pandemic, in the summer of 2020. The series, which had already aired in the U.K. in the fall of 2019, waited until the Peacock pickup to greenlight a second series, so it's already been
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Most people know Cary Grant as the debonair romantic lead of such films as His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby or the famous scene of him chased by an airplane in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. But the British-American actor, born Archibald Alec Leach in January 1904,
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At the mention of psychological black comedy crime films from the 2000s, most people immediately think of Guy Richie's Snatch or In Bruges, the 2008 Irish film starring Colin Farrell. But the genre, which Quentin Tarantino jump-started in the mid-1990s with Pulp Fiction, had already produced its cult
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The penultimate episode of COBRA Season 2 begins with the reveal Firestorm is back online and raising fears about the water supply. "Water systems would be a prime target for a cyber attack," says Fraser Walker, director of Crisis Contingency Secretariat, with his usual talent for the obvious.
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It's Disney Week at the Television Critics Association, which means TV announcement news is heavy on Marvel, Star Wars, and American content and light on the U.K. offerings. But FX, which has been refashioning itself as a brand within the empire since Disney bought parent company 20th
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As we've seen many times, our pop culture is positively obsessed with England's Tudor family. From the soapy melodrama of King Henry VIII's disastrous marriage track record to the untold stories of the complicated women who essentially all outshone him, we can't
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Peacock's first British shows when it launched, The Capture and Intelligence, were shows set in GCHQ and the world of cyber warfare. Though the streamer's launch schedule was severely hobbled by pandemic and lockdown filming delays, as it rounds into Year 3, Peacock is finally beginning
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Orphan Black was a big surprise hit for BBC America in 2013. The Canadian sci-fi thriller television series by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett launched the career of She-Hulk's Tatiana Maslany. Though the series concluded in 2017, it has already spawned a comic book series, audio dramas, and
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Last week's COBRA ended on a cliffhanger: How and why did an irradiated corpse turn up in a truck in the center of London? A meeting between Prime Minister Robert Sutherland and his top team, Home Secretary Joseph Obasi, Foreign Secretary Archie Glover-Morgan, MI5 Director Eleanor James, and
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Generally speaking, history isn't terribly kind to powerful women. Part of the reason for that is that history is almost always written by men, but it's also because for a large part of our time on this planet women have been as unnatural for wanting more