Telly that bridges the Pond
With the unofficial start of summer comes news that the chart-topping English-Irish boy band, One Direction, could be headed from the concert stage to the small screen in their own television series.
For hours of aristocratic fun and hijinks, head to Acorn TV when the subscription video-on-demand service begins its exclusive screening of hit Brit comedy Blandings: Series 2 in the US next week. But wait, there’s more! Jeeves & Wooster is coming
The British “invasion” of American television has become an entrenched and still-growing part of the stateside viewing landscape, but another invasion is also taking audiences by storm, and this time it’s Australian.
When the BBC Three comedy, Pramface, first screened in 2012, there were two things I had to get past to give the show a go. The first was the title. Pramface? That just sounded so mean. (British slang terms aren’t necessarily
“Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening.” That’s me, doing my impression of Stephen Fry when he hosts the gut-bustingly funny British quiz show, QI.
It’s Valentine’s Day 2014, and love is in the air. So are snow, sleet, and driving rains across much of the US and UK. The weather is bad and roads are worse, which makes it a good day to stay
Ah, life at uni. For the Manchester Medlock University students who reside at 28 Hartnell Avenue, it most definitely is not all about books and grades, and their second year is just as jacked up as their first.
You, Me & Them — the first sitcom commissioned by the UKTV network’s Gold classic comedy channel — has brought together several stars of British TV for a romcom sitcom that premieres stateside today.
Rounding out this weeks’s news of programs coming to local PBS stations is Hebburn, the British Comedy Guide’s 2013 winner for Best New TV Sitcom, which will be back with its second season.
The 2012 Olympic Games may be over, but the laughs will soon be starting when a select few PBS stations begin airing the Hugh Bonneville-led ensemble cast comedy, Twenty Twelve.
Local public television stations have their own British invasion going on. In addition to airing PBS programs and exclusively premiering some of the best dramas out of the UK in the US (e.g. DCI Banks, Scott & Bailey, etc.), many
Who says wishing won’t make it so? It did for many stateside British TV fans, myself included, who have been wanting and wishing that the hit Britcom, Vicious, would air in the US. And soon it will!