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American audiences are likely first learning about the tragic deaths of Peter Farquar and Ann Moore-Martin thanks to the BritBox true crime drama The Sixth Commandment. The four-part series dramatizes the crimes of Ben Fields, a charismatic student who drugged, gaslit, and finally murdered Farquar, in Buckinghamshire in 2015. (And
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As a genre, true crime is often focused on the worst of humanity. It's usually why people tune in, after all. We're both appalled and fascinated by the terrible deeds of the darkest people among us, and far too often we tell the stories of their
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BritBox has scooped up two series for Fall 2023. One is The Sixth Commandment, a critically-acclaimed hit from the BBC; the other, This England, is a highly-anticipated title heading to Sky UK. Both come headlined by some of the biggest names in British acting, with Timothy Spall (Spencer) and Anne
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Award winning actress Anne Reid is certainly staying booked and busy now her time on the seaside-set period drama Sanditon has come to a close, taking on a role that's quite different from that of rich society matron Lady Denham. She's next set to star alongside
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Sanditon Season 2 may have only just concluded on-air, but fans can breathe easy this time around: there's no agonizing question of whether or not the story of the seaside resort town will continue. The announcement of the period drama's surprise resurrection from the dead in
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What a difference a season makes. As Sanditon ends Season 2 safe in the knowledge that it will be back for a third, everything about its finale feels different. Season 1, which aired in America after the news broke that the series was canceled, its open-ended finale that separated its
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Love is in the air in the penultimate episode of Sanditon Season 2, as the Parkers manage to stave off their circling creditors long enough to throw a ball that gives all our favorite characters the chance to deck themselves out in gorgeous dresses, dance the night away, and engage
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Lady Denham's annual garden party serves as the highlight of this episode of Sanditon, an hour that has everything you could possibly want from a show like this: Multiple men bristling over their shared attraction to the seemingly only eligible women in town, a post-proposal near-drowning, a largely
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Sanditon rolls merrily along this week, seemingly eager to tick as many stereotypical period drama boxes as possible in the name of pushing its story forward. There's a charming midsummer fair! A stoic man expresses emotion due to the mention of his beloved dead spouse! An unwed mother
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The second season of Sanditon wastes no time in giving us what we all want from this sort of show—a fancy dress ball that hints at the possibility of multiple potential romances and offers plenty of opportunities for both dancing and gossip. Granted, it also feels like the show
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Against all odds, period drama Sanditon is back for a second season. No matter how some of us might feel about the necessities of casting changes and other assorted changes and economies caused by its very belated renewal, we should take the opportunity to simply rejoice in the fact that
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Before 2019, Sanditon was the deep-cut Jane Austen novel known only to superfans. Only 11 chapters were written before she died, enough to establish tone (rollicking comedy) and set-up, with heroine Charlotte Heywood. The eldest of a country gentleman, she goes to the titular seaside town with the Parkers, houseguests