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We have reached the final round-up of 2024, a year I think many of us will be happy to see the back of. But the year is not over yet; there's still an entire December to get through. Luckily, PBS (and its various streaming services) has plenty of
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From antiquity to the Blitz, monarchs to suffragists, presenter Lucy Worsley’s British history expertise knows no bounds. Though she began her career as a curator and inspector of historic buildings, her passion for making history accessible to the public landed her first documentary appearance in 2009’s Inside the
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The holidays are officially here, and not just because this is the week of American Thanksgiving. Call the Midwife's production studio, Neal Street, took to social media to announce the conclusion of filming the 2024 Christmas special and Season 15. For U.K. and U.S. viewers alike,
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Much like William Shakespeare's history plays, Wolf Hall takes history (in this case, history that happened just before Shakespeare's time) and retells it via the sensibilities of modern authors. However, much like plays like Julius Caesar and The Henriad, the dramatic liberties novelist Hillary Mantel and
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Still reeling over the all-points collision of the Schlegels, the Wilcoxes, and the Basts in Howards End? Brace yourself; there’s more coming in the finale, along with some melodrama, coincidences, toxic masculinity, and inexplicable decisions. (In other words, business as usual.) We last saw Margaret writing a letter, which
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Last week’s episode of Howards End ended with the Schlegels’ vote to take Wilcox’s London house if it is suitable. This week begins with his arrival to drive Margaret there. As she leaves, Helen says, “Don’t do anything rash.” Be warned — there is plenty of rashness ahead.
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One of the U.K.’s long-standing traditions is telling ghost stories at Christmas. The most famous, of course, is A Christmas Carol, in which a rich man is terrorized into paying his staff a living wage. However, Dickens was merely following a tradition older than he was; Victorian writers
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Despite the awkwardness of the series name, critics and reviewers loved Gemma Arterton's first season of Funny Woman. (So-called because it's adapted from the Nick Hornsby novel Funny Girl, a title already taken by a rather famous musical.) However, viewers, assuming the title was a comedy,
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Astrid (Astrid et Raphaëlle) was a hit right out of the gate when it first debuted on PBS Passport in November 2022 as part of that month's Walter Presents slate. In fact, it proved so popular that Walter Presents rushed to bring Season 2 in the spring of
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Few are left of those who pioneered television as we know it today, and those who are still with us will not be around for much longer. However, it speaks to the original dream for the medium as a way to provide educational and heartwarming television that two of the
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In one of the most remarkable episodes of Wolf Hall's first season, Hillary Mantel takes the plot of the famous Oscar-winning film A Man For All Seasons and argues that actually, Thomas More was a self-centered fool. Meanwhile, Anne may have nurtured her way to be queen, but
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We're having a rough start on The Marlow Murder Club in Season 1's final episode. Tanika and the sleuthing trio are all reeling from the murder of Liz Curtis when we reunite with them at the top of the episode. Judith is re-evaluating everything on her