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Against all odds, period drama Sanditon is back for a second season. No matter how some of us might feel about the necessities of casting changes and other assorted changes and economies caused by its very belated renewal, we should take the opportunity to simply rejoice in the fact that
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Welcome back to an all-new season of Call the Midwife! It’s the spring of 1967, Easter has just been celebrated, and new beginnings abound in Poplar. Lucille and her hubby Cyril have settled nicely into married life in their apartment above the newsagent's shop. If you want
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Medical dramas are notoriously hard to kill. It's partly the nature of the beast — the hospital setting lends to an ensemble cast; people can come and go easily without breaking stride. Once the series is proven to work without the original lead (like Call The Midwife), it can
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Derry Girls was one of those shows that snuck up on Americans. The series, which premiered in 2018 on Channel 4, was one of the many U.K. titles Netflix imported as part of their strategy to keep the content coffers flowing as previously reliable production studios (like Disney and
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After launching several successful series that feel British even if they're technically not (Ted Lasso, Dickinson, Suspicion), Apple TV+ is finally set to launch its first proper British period drama this Spring. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name, The Essex Serpent will officially launch this
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The novel The Time Traveler's Wife was one of Amazon's first major best sellers when it hit big in 2003. The book was adapted into a feature film starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams that was a lesser hit. (It was the tail end of the
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Gentleman Jack is back! Well, almost. HBO announced that the highly anticipated second season of the popular period drama would finally hit our screens in April, nearly three years after its first aired. Gentleman Jack centers on Anne Lister, a 19th-century British landowner, intellectual, lesbian, and all-around unorthodox woman who
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Before 2019, Sanditon was the deep-cut Jane Austen novel known only to superfans. Only 11 chapters were written before she died, enough to establish tone (rollicking comedy) and set-up, with heroine Charlotte Heywood. The eldest of a country gentleman, she goes to the titular seaside town with the Parkers, houseguests
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After a decade on the air, Call The Midwife is back to try and go for another decade. For fans of the series, the March arrival of their favorite series is equivalent to a double dose of birthing goodness, and the delay in getting Season 10 on the air in
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The final season of popular period gangland drama Peaky Blinders is currently airing in the U.K., and American fans were preparing themselves to wait for several months to find out how the story of the Shelby clan (at least in this particular incarnation) would come to an end. After
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Spring arrives on March 20, 2022, and romance to our televisions with it. Fans of period piece love stories are going to have a whole bouquet of offerings along with the new season, from the return of Sanditon and Call The Midwife to the premiere of The Gilded Age'
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Admittedly, when it was announced that a second season of Good Omens would be coming to Prime Video, fans were rightly a bit perplexed. (Over the moon, likely, but perplexed all the same.) Because the first season of the series, based on the beloved Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett novel