Telly that bridges the Pond
Filming has begun on The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, the highly-anticipated follow-up to the BAFTA Award-winning Shakespeare miniseries, The Hollow Crown, and the final casts have been revealed.
Peaky Blinders, the critically-acclaimed and UK viewer-favorite gangster drama, is set to take US Brit TV fans by storm when it debuts stateside, exclusively on Netflix.
Fans of Shakespeare and The Hollow Crown, rejoice! BBC Two has announced its commission of the Bard-based follow-up, The Hollow Crown: The Wars Of The Roses.
More of the much-loved “Outlander” book series will be adapted for the small screen, as Starz announced that its fantasy series Outlander has been greenlit for a second season.
As we wait with bated breath for the new season of Doctor Who to premiere on the 23rd of August, BBC America has several more announcements, including the return of Orphan Black and Broadchurch and the commission of new programs.
PBS Masterpiece, which brought the original 1970s BBC adaptation of Poldark to the US, has announced that it will screen the Aidan Turner-led adaptation of the romantic saga in 2015.
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.
Poldark, one of the UK’s most beloved and enduring period dramas, is getting an update, and heartthrob Aidan Turner is leading the cast of the long-awaited remake.
Keeping a stiff upper lip might be the quintessentially English way of handling a crisis, but for noted author P.G. Wodehouse, doing so backfired on him during World War II. The biopic, Wodehouse in Exile, tells the story of how
PBS is pulling out the stops in celebrating the 40th Anniversary Season of Great Performances with its premiere of the BBC’s magnificent The Hollow Crown.
Ah, costume dramas. They’ve been required viewing for British TV fans in the States for more than four decades. Some have even made their way into our lexicon, if not our collective consciousness, at least insofar as modern-day TV scripts
Do you remember the very first British TV show you ever watched? I don’t. The earliest I can recall is when I was in junior high school. That was quite a number of years ago, in the pre-cable age when