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The phrase "Peak TV" was first coined in 2014 during a Television Critics Association panel with FX head John Landgraff. He used the term to refer to the growing slate of high-end TV shows. However, since then, the proliferation of streaming services and the gaping maw of content
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The year Ridley Road was set in 1962 wasn’t quite the swinging sixties, but change was definitely in the air. Conservative Prime Minister Harold MacMillan had been in power since 1957 but was losing support, and his government would come crashing down the next year following the Profumo Affair.
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As the final episode of Ridley Road begins, the first thing Vivien does after her night with Colin Jordan is to search for the suitcase that holds damning evidence of his organization’s activities. But she’s interrupted by the arrival of his son, Paul, and we realize that we’
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As the third installment of Ridley Road begins, Vivien is woken by Elise and finds the house is in an uproar with the arrival of Colin Jordan’s glamorous wife, Francoise Dior (Romane Portail), and George Lincoln Rockwell (Stephen Hogan), leader of the American Nazi Party. Although her night with
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Vivien Epstein, now blonde Jane Carpenter, is visiting the leader of the National Socialist Party, Colin Jordan, whose bonhomie and charm can be turned off in the wink of an eye. She wants to know her boyfriend's whereabouts, Peter Fox (real name Jack Morris), and at first, Colin
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Although it’s less than twenty years after the end of World War II when Ridley Road opens, neo-Nazism is still alive and thriving under the auspices of the National Socialist Movement in the United Kingdom, targeting Jews, Black, and brown people in the alleged interests of racial purity. Its
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The Emmys are coming, or at least the submittal deadline is. Any show wanting to be considered for the 2021-2022 TV season must have at least premiered by May 31, which means this is the month where the big guns come out. Just about every streamer on this list has
Drama
For a long time, Masterpiece offerings on PBS could be classified into three categories: lush period pieces, contemporary dramas, and mystery series. But recently, the anthology program has started branching out into genres that aren't generally in its wheelhouse. For example, Around The World In 80 Days was
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Masterpiece has given us our first look at the upcoming period thriller Ridley Road, a drama that promises to be one of the highlights of the Spring programming slate. An adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Jo Bloom, the series is set against the backdrop
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The PBS Masterpiece lineup in 2021 was something of a start-and-stop affair, as the delays from the 2020 shutdown in the U.K. rolled across the pond, causing Call The Midwife, Grantchester, Unforgotten, and Baptiste to debut in the second half of the year. But no such delays will exist
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Masterpiece has released the first images of its latest collaboration with the BBC, Ridley Road. Inspired by a true story, the series is adapted from Jo Bloom's best-selling novel of the same name. Set in the U.K. in the late 1960s, newcomer Aggi O'Casey stars
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Masterpiece has signed on to the upcoming thriller Ridley Road, an adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel by Jo Bloom. The period thriller is set against the backdrop of the swinging sixties in London, in an East End where fascism is on the rise. The story follows a young Jewish