Netflix
'Agatha Christie's Seven Dials' Introduces Superintendent Battle
The trailer for 'Agatha Christie's Seven Dials' introduces Christie's long-ignored fourth detective, who will finally get his due.
Helena Bonham Carter
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Netflix Confirms 'Enola Holmes 3' Production is Afoot
Enola Holmes is back on the case, as filming for the third installment in the ongoing franchise has commenced in Malta, according to Netflix. One of the streaming service's more dependable hits of the 2020s, the adaptations of Nancy Springer's middle-grade children's books first
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'Adolescence' Director To Helm 'Enola Holmes 3'
Millie Bobby Brown has had a less-than-ideal early 2025, with the latest Netflix-produced Russo Brothers movie she stars in, The Electric State, doing exactly as well with critics as everything else they've made since the 2018-2019 Avengers double whammy. Moreover, after a decade in the business, she'
Better Late Than Never
'The Cleaner' Is the Britcom You Didn’t Know You Needed
I was a sitcom kid growing up. I snuck in my fair share of hour-long series when my parents weren’t looking. However, on reflection, most of what I gravitated towards were comedic, caper-based shows like Cheers, Golden Girls, Roseanne, and then eventually – thanks to PBS – Britcoms like Fawlty Towers,
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'The Seven Dials Mystery' Casts a Trio of All Stars
It was the end of March when we first reported that Netflix was stepping up from doing modern Agatha Christie-style mystery knock-offs like the Knives Out mystery series of films, and were getting into the real-deal Christie works, aiming to out-BBC the BBC by doing its own limited series of
PBS
In The End, It’s 'Nolly's' Turn
The third episode of Nolly is the best episode of the series. It is the most open and reflective of the trio, focusing on themes like the significance of the stories we tell ourselves; the value of maintaining good friendships across time and space; the sadness of realizing that you
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In 'Nolly's Second Episode, You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down
The premiere episode of Nolly closed on our titular heroine screaming right into the camera, all of the vexation, confusion, fury, and sadness of her unexplained and unceremonious sacking from the successful soap opera Crossroads pouring out in one anguished howl. Episode 2 will also close out with a tight
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'Nolly' Premiere: “What A Drag It Is, Getting Old”
Nolly, a three-part miniseries about the latter career of Noele Gordon, is one of those shows that has a lot going for it but doesn’t quite stick the landing. At least, not for a contemporary American audience. We know extremely British shows can become much-loved classics for American viewers,
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Is 'Nolly' Based on a Real Person? Everything to Know About Noele Gordon
Nolly had not yet debuted in the U.K. when Masterpiece announced in January 2023 that it had picked up the three-part series starring Helena Bonham Carter, fresh off her turn as Princess Margaret in The Crown. The debut series from the brand new ITV production studio Quay Street, it
Movies
The Rote Pleasures of 'One Life' Are Not Enough
For American or international audiences, who perhaps only occasionally peer into the hysteria that is the United Kingdom, there was a year-long obsession in the media with an extremely elderly gentleman called Captain Tom. This military veteran attempted to walk the length of his garden 100 times to raise money
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Helena Bonham Carter's 'Nolly' To Premiere on PBS for Spring 2024
Masterpiece announced it had acquired the ITV drama Nolly in January 2023 as part of a more extensive slate of 2023-2024 premieres. At the time, the three-part series had not yet premiered in the U.K. — it debuted a couple of weeks later in February — and it seemed a possibility
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Toronto Film Festival to Premiere UK Productions 'One Life' & 'Alice & Jack'
As of this writing, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are ongoing, but awards season is still on, with hopes that by the time the red carpets roll out in January 2024, there will be stars to walk them. The unofficial kick-off of awards season begins with the back-to-back international film