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Looks like we'll all be having seconds of Julia, the HBO Max drama based on the life of the famous chef, cookbook author, and television personality Julia Child. The streamer announced that it had renewed the comedy series on the eve of its first season finale, promising more
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In a summer television season that will likely be dominated by the highly anticipated returns of several popular mystery series (Endeavour, Grantchester) and political thrillers (COBRA), period drama fans can breathe a sigh of relief: At least we'll always have Hotel Portofino. This lush 1920s drama is set
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The episode opens with Lister, glamorous in a fashionable massively-sleeved gown, and Ann, also beautifully dressed, dining at a hotel restaurant in Paris. Lister shows off for Ann's benefit and probably for the other patrons. She talks loudly about her aristocratic friends, gesticulates, and shamelessly name-drops. Ann, bless
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Though Apple TV+ is only just now starting to produce British series and films (instead of series and movies that just feel British, like Dickinson, star Brits, like Defending Jacob, or are British adjacent, like Ted Lasso), it's been prepping for this since it launched. In July 2020,
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Although it’s less than twenty years after the end of World War II when Ridley Road opens, neo-Nazism is still alive and thriving under the auspices of the National Socialist Movement in the United Kingdom, targeting Jews, Black, and brown people in the alleged interests of racial purity. Its
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It’s hard to believe we’re already up to the penultimate episode of this season’s Call the Midwife! When last we were in Poplar, our friends were dealing with arty squatters, a reclusive clairvoyant with a serious health issue and Dr. Turner was trying to get a measles
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The Ipcress File was a smash hit when it debuted on ITV in March 2022, holding its own in the ratings against Peaky Blinders' final season. Fans have known for a while that the series had been picked up over here by AMC Networks and was planned for a
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Apple TV+'s upcoming series The Essex Serpent has all the hallmarks of a prestige period piece: It's based on Sarah Perry's bestselling historical novel; its story wrestles with complex issues of superstition, faith, and belief; and it's full of atmospheric establishing shots
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Julian Fellowes' deeply ambitious Downton Abbey follow-up hit, The Gilded Age, takes the format of the original hit series—the upstairs-downstairs look at the changing times and technologies of the era—and attempts to recreate it for American shores, only bigger. After all, what is America known for but
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Sanditon Season 2 may have only just concluded on-air, but fans can breathe easy this time around: there's no agonizing question of whether or not the story of the seaside resort town will continue. The announcement of the period drama's surprise resurrection from the dead in
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Finally, Jack is back. Anne Lister (Suranne Jones, Scott & Bailey), industrialist, writer, explorer, and LGBTQ+ champion, bursts once more onto our small screens with Gentleman Jack Season 2. Add a wife to that list of accomplishments since she and Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle, Peaky Blinders) exchanged vows and rings
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Sally Rooney's Normal People was a surprise hit for Hulu when it debuted in 2020. The series, which was a co-production between BBC Three, Ireland's RTE, and the American streaming service, was assumed to be, like most British titles on Hulu, something that would do well