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In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, gave a damning interview to the BBC’s Emily Maitlis about his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In the spring of 2024, Netflix gave us Scoop, a feature-length movie
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Future Dame Keeley Hawes has set her next project after PBS' Miss Austen. The actor has signed on to lead The Assassin, the newest project from The Williams Brothers (Baptiste) at Amazon's Prime Video. She'll play Julie, a retired assassin whose estranged son, Edward, tracks
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When Orphan Black premiered in 2013, it had such a wow factor. The drama about genetically identical human clones was immediately engaging and unlike anything on TV at the time. But what gave the series that extra oomph was star Tatiana Maslany’s incredible performance, where she played no less
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Scoop tries hard to convince you it has something important to say about Newsnight’s Prince Andrew interview. In November 2019, the flagship BBC news and current affairs program interviewed Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, about his well-documented connection to convicted sex offender and alleged mass trafficker of underaged
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With Doctor Who's much-ballyhooed move to the greener ($$$) pastures of Disney+, Luther decamping for Netflix, and Holby City and many soaps older favorites now on BritBox, there have been few reasons to pay attention to BBC America. Sure, it still has fantastic nature content — Attenborough and Planet Earth
Netflix
When Netflix greenlit six seasons of The Crown sight unseen in 2014, the initial plan was to film and air the seasons back-to-back with no gap years, a feat that wound up impossible due to the planned cast turnover. Part of the reason for that initial six-year straight-through plan was
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Apparently, 2024 is shaping up to be the year of Prince Andrew, whether any of us want it to be or not. Two of the biggest streamers in the industry are prepping dramas based on the infamous 2019 BBC Newsnight interview that saw Queen Elizabeth's third son disastrously
PBS
PBS first announced Masterpiece was working on an adaptation of Gil Hornsby's novel Miss Austen in the summer of 2022, not long after the second season of Sanditon returned. Jane Austen has been a staple of PBS since it first premiered as a network and Masterpiece in particular,
Orphan Black
It's been over a decade since Orphan Black premiered in March 2013 on BBC America. Viewers may not remember that the weird little Canadian series starring the then-unknown Tatiana Maslany started out as a series about a con-artist who takes over the life of someone who happens to
Actors and Actresses
Michael Gambon, born into a working-class family in Cabra, a suburb of Dublin, did not seem destined for an acting career. He left school at 15 to become an apprentice with an engineering company. His first contact with the theater was when his father, a communist sympathizer, told him to
Actors and Actresses
Talented British actor Hugh Bonneville’s most recent role is as Detective Brian Boyce in true-crime drama, The Gold, the latest BBC-Paramount co-production that led of Paramount+'s international slate. It’s a long way from Downton Abbey, but then Bonneville has never allowed himself to be typecast, although
Netflix
Production is officially underway on the upcoming star-studded Netflix film Scoop, a project that aims to dramatize the behind-the-scenes story of the bombshell 2019 BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew, the second (and rumored favorite!) son of Queen Elizabeth II, during which he faced many uncomfortable questions about his friendship