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The luscious Hotel Portofino is both charming and heartfelt and has an opulent setting, a robust and talented cast, and quiet but compelling stories. As Eagle Eye Drama’s first original English-language drama, it had a lot resting on its gentle shoulders and managed to garner a respectable audience. Centered
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Mrs. Sidhu Investigates ended its first season Monday, October 9 (just in time for Canadian Thanksgiving!) with an episode that finds our intrepid caterer (played to perfection by Meera Syal) searching for a kidnapped boxer. Over the course of the season’s four episodes, Mrs. Sidhu, while preparing lattes and
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The most popular of the Walter Presents English-language remakes, Professor T, ends its second season run on PBS on October 8, 2023. This season has been more fun and gripping than the first, with series co-writer Matt Baker allowing the audience to dig into the main character, Professor Jasper Tempest,
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Great Performances celebrates 50 years on PBS in 2023, and as part of the anthology series' 50th anniversary, it's leading off with another anniversary special -- Shakespeare in the Park's Richard III. The Joseph Papp-conceived free-for-all production celebrated 60 years since opening its signature arena
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If Shakespeare defined the pop culture of the first Elizabethan era, then Charles Dickens did the same for the Victorian one. From A Christmas Carol, which synthesized Victoria and Albert's push to popularize a secularist Germanic tradition for the industrial age, to David Copperfield, a bildungsroman detailing Victorian
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As a historical figure, Marie Antoinette is often held up as the epitome of wealth and privilege in a time when monarchies were rapidly losing their hold on power. Most school children learn of her as the uncaring ruler who seemed confused at the peasants having no bread, declaring, "
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton is one of the most original period dramas you’ll watch this year. One part murder mystery, one part historical drama, and one part queer romance, it’s a series that touches on all manner of themes along the intersection of race, gender, class, and
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FX has had a bumpy couple of years since its parent company 20th Century was swallowed whole by the Walt Disney Company. At the time, it was uncertain how the family-oriented Disney would change the edgy and adult-leaning FX, concerns that were further exacerbated when one of FX's
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BritBox’s Crossfire is a three-part thriller about every vacationer’s worst nightmare: A sun-drenched escape that quickly turns into a blood-soaked horror show when a group of would-be terrorists invades a picturesque resort and begins indiscriminately shooting guests and staff members. The series follows the story of Jo (Keeley
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Sophmore slump is a real phenomenon, but not for BBC's The Capture, which debuted its second season in the U.S. on streaming service Peacock on Nov. 3, 2022. Series creator and showrunner Ben Chanan, who wrote and directed all six episodes of the first season, comes back
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Like Bridgerton, Lord of the Rings, and The Wheel of Time, Netflix's The Sandman is not a pretty British series. However, it will feel enough like one and star enough U.K. favorites well known from PBS and the BBC for anglophiles to check it out. With a
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Acorn TV's new period-set mystery series Dalgliesh may feel fairly familiar to Anglophile audiences, given that it's based on a series of novels by P.D. James that originally began publishing in 1962 and continued for over four decades afterward. These books have spawned multiple small