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It's been nearly two years since Vienna Blood Season 3 debuted on PBS in January 2023. The series, based on the Max Liebermann novels by Frank Tallis, has been an on-again/off-again wintertime mystery series for public television, originally debuting Season 1 in January 2020, only to have
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Grantchester's ninth season ends much as it lived, with an hour that is...fine, if generally unremarkable. There is nothing shocking about this final hour, which makes a vague attempt at raising the stakes for several characters only to essentially reset things to the series' baseline status
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The title of Hotel Portofino’s second episode of Season 3 is “Proposals,” which is appropriate because Marco seems to think that proposing to Bella will solve all their problems. He thinks it’s their chance to be together, but Bella knows things aren’t so simple for a woman
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The trend of advancing a period piece series forward one year per season was not new when Call The Midwife began using it over a decade ago, but the ubiquity of the BBC's hit —which started in the late 1950s with Season 1 and will now cross in
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COBRA: Rebellion’s second episode lays bare the terrible tension between Robert Sutherland’s roles as Prime Minister and loving father and damages the fragile truce with his wife, Rachel. Their troublesome, beloved daughter Ellie is missing in the Godley Common disaster, where a massive sinkhole has destroyed buildings and
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The dog days of August are upon us, and while streaming has mostly changed the TV season so that no one takes summers off anymore, PBS is still a linear network at heart, and most of its shows run on the old September-May TV season, with a set of mysteries
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Hotel Portofino returns for its third season this Sunday on PBS. Since the show’s inception, Mark Umbers’ Cecil has been up to no good. The impeccably dressed Cecil constantly schemes against his wife, Bella (Natascha McElhone), while getting himself into all sorts of trouble with his questionable get-rich-quick schemes.
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Here in the northern hemisphere, we’re in the thick of summer – the weather, the sunlight, the time to get out of town to relax – what better time to find a new-to-you TV series to enjoy, and maybe even to become mildly obsessed with? Have I got a recommendation for
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Much like most of the episodes that preceded it, the penultimate installment of Grantchester Season 9 is a mixed bag. An hour that finally sees several of the season's seemingly disparate story threads come together in a way that indicates its most annoying subplots were meant to be
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As viewers, we left Hotel Portofino and the glorious Italian Riviera in November 2023. Although less than a year has passed in our world, two years have gone by in the lives of the Ainsworth family. It is now 1929. Fascism is further on the rise, and we know the
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It’s time to convene another COBRA, the show which can be depended on for Prime Minister Robert Sutherland (Robert Carlyle) looking horrified as both his country collapses around him and an unnecessarily complex plot unfolds. This third (and probably last) season seems to be a little more grounded in
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It’s time to return to the gorgeous Italian riveria, where the ambiance is exquisite; the food is delicious, the romances are starcrossed, and, except for the pesky rise of fascism, everything is a delight. That’s right, Hotel Portofino returns for a third season on Sunday, July 28, 2024,