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Since the series' debut in 2012, Call the Midwife has been the gold standard of ensemble period pieces. It ushered in a new era of cooperation between the BBC and PBS, where a BBC show was allowed to premiere the same day on PBS as it did in the
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Even if Jane Austen's untimely passing hadn't happened, it's highly doubtful she would have lived to see 2025; this year marks the late author's 250th birthday, and as befitting one of the two best selling female authors of all time in the
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PBS has been off cycle from the commercial TV world ever since it discovered it could have the entirety of January to itself. However, spring is still a significant part of the schedule, especially when Masterpiece has a series it genuinely believes can compete in the yearly Primetime Emmy push.
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Somewhere around Call the Midwife Season 10, as the show reached the later 1960s and the legalization of abortion and the decriminalization of homosexuality, we started joking that the show was going to need to start thinking about men they want to cast, as Season 19 would be set in
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Unforgotten has slowly become one of Masterpiece's most enduring mystery shows. It is currently one of the very few to reach more than five seasons without being based on a popular book series. The ITV show has weathered a full-on lead casting change from Nicola Walker to Sinead
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The yearly conclusion of All Creatures Great & Small on PBS is a bit like Groundhog Day here in the U.S., signaling that the end of winter is heading our way. ("Groundhog Day," meaning the actual event of a groundhog sticking his head out of a hole,
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Funny Woman Season 2, we hardly knew ye! I wish we’d gotten at least two more episodes of the life and times of Sophie Straw, but it’s been a fun, brisk quartet of episodes. I both enjoy and admire how the season’s many significant plots and character
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Make sure you have some tissues handy! The touching and emotionally charged Christmas episode of All Creatures Great & Small Season 5 has once again been tacked on directly onto the season itself by Masterpiece to serve as a holiday-themed finale. It’s now December 1942, and the course of
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When the executives behind Walter Presents, Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino, decided to start a production company to remake their most popular foreign language hits in English, choosing Professor T was a no-brainer. The original three-season Belgian version was a hit in the U.S. and the U.K., plus
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One of the most challenging decisions when remaking a once-popular series that has fallen by the wayside is whether or not to update it to the modern era, especially when the series in question was initially set in "contemporary times" when it was originally released. For some shows,
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The end of February brings the yearly event MIP TV, where many series gather to convince international buyers to pick up the rights to air them. Until 2024, the event was France-based, held in Cannes, as a sort of pre-show to the Cannes Film Festival a few weeks later. However,
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Funny Woman’s second season is burning through plot like a bunch of raked-up autumnal leaves. A four-episode season means that where we’d be at the midpoint of a season with six episodes, we’re already in penultimate episode territory, often where the big turning points of the season