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If you aren’t already familiar with historian and presenter Lucy Worsley, get ready to meet the only person on Earth who can make reading microfilm compelling. Worsley has presented British history documentaries on everything from Sherlock Holmes to Marie Antoinette. Her somewhat catchall series, Lucy Worsley Investigates, is back
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“A fully-developed bromance” flourishing as they face “trying to solve a major crime at the end of the Austrian Empire.” That’s how Vienna Blood star Juergen Maurer describes the relationship between his character, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, and Dr. Max Liebermann as the pre-Great War mystery series’s fourth (and
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Longtime Vienna Blood viewers will recall that PBS tends to split each season’s feature-length episodes, giving the show a longer run. This time around, those breaks – which have in the past tended strongly towards the clunky – work pretty well. The break between “Mephisto Waltz” and “A Winning Hand” is
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The Season 5 premiere of All Creatures Great & Small delves into the everyday life of wartime Darrowby in 1941. For the inhabitants of Skeldale House, who always seem to be busy, life has become more complicated, with rationing and wartime restrictions, plus the underlying worry about loved ones far
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The Duke is dead, long live the Duke. Though the fictional character who used to hold a spot in the series title has not shuffled off this mortal coil by the end of the Miss Scarlet Season 5 premiere, he is really most sincerely gone. It's hard to
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Vienna Blood is back for one more waltz! The British-Austrian production is unlike most English-language shows on PBS’s slate, thanks to its setting in mainland Europe between the Victorian and Great War periods. In some respects, it’s a classic odd couple-solves-murders show featuring an energetic, overly self-assured guy
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All Creatures Great & Small will return to our screens in January 2025 with Season 5. Are you ready? Put on the kettle and bring out the scones! Based on the immensely popular books of James Herriot, the pen name of Yorkshire veterinarian J. Alf Wight, the BBC originally debuted
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PBS introduced Funny Woman to the American public a year ago, in January 2024. The somewhat awkwardly titled series (based on the Nick Hornby book Funny Girl, necessitating alterations) stars Gemma Arterton (The Critic) as Barabra Parker, 1960s Blackpool Beauty Queen, who has plans to take her success on the
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In anticipation of Vienna Blood’s fourth (and likely final, though I have thoughts about that) season arriving on PBS on January 5, it’s a good moment to revisit highlights of the previous three seasons of this often-delightful odd couple solving murders in the waning days of the Austria-Hungarian
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It's January 2025, which means the third decade of the 21st century is officially halfway over. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the platform launch that arguably kicked off the streaming revolution: YouTube. Yes, YouTube; the streaming platform was the initial way pirating TV series commercial-free became
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As another television year fades to black, PBS stations close the book on 2024, a year that included releases for both new and existing series. From unexpected treats like The Marlow Murder Club and Gemma Arterton’s grounding performance in Funny Woman to a satisfying ending to Moonflower Murders, there
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The holidays are nearly over, and the new year looms large on the calendar, even as emails are still bouncing back and half the people you need to talk to are on vacation. However, the end of the year also means it’s pledge drive time in the world of