This BBC documentary celebrating the 200th anniversary ofPride and Prejudicereveals the hidden world behind one of the greatest love stories of all time by re-staging an early 19th Century Regency ball at Chawton House, the grand estate of Jane Austen’s brother in an idyllic corner of the E...
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There’s nothing quite like an hour or two in the company of Bill Forsyth’s evergreen comedy to fill your bucket. Peter Riegert, a genuinely underrated ‘comic’ straight man (see also:The Mask,Animal House), is a lawyer sent to scope out a Scottish fishing village that’s in the sig...
ALF stands for Alien Life Form, and it's the nickname that the bewildered Tanner family slaps on Gordon Shumway, the stranded alien who moves into their laundry room. Picture a puppet that looks like an aardvark and comes with a little bit of an attitude. You'd have one too if you wer...
The Shadow of the Tower (1972) BBC: The Shadow of the Tower is a 13-episode historical drama recording the key events in the reign of Henry Tudor and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty. In the episode The Crowning of Apes, Henry forms an army to defend himself against the Irish-German...
I’m not sure I agree with this casting as PC, but I’m happy he got the part because he’s an amazing actor. It’s about the early years of the BBC, or as my DIL calls it, the “Beebs”. From IMDB: “A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era ...
Directed by Emily Mortimer, BBC One's adaptation of Nancy Mitford's 1945 novel is an absolute riot for lovers of period dramas. Set between World Wars, The Pursuit of Love centres around the romantic whims of the audacious Linda Radlett (Lily James), as told by her close cousin Fanny ...
InShooter, Ryan Phillippe stars as Bob Lee Swagger in a show based on the novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter. Here, he is a retired Marine Corps sniper living in seclusion who is called in to help stop an assassination attempt on the president but finds himself framed for the murder...
With Trump’s fall to the “Deep State bad guys” in the election, he will soon be no longer able to restrain the US war machine from bearing down on Russia. So Russia will soon be facing a belligerent US on the global stage and an on-the-march Turkey on the regional stage, not ...
Considered by many fans as one of the standout stories in S20, this intriguing four-parter benefits from an ambitious (and surprisingly successful) attempt to create an alien city and culture in the BBC studios, as well as a fine performance by Ms. Fielding, who g...