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Netflix's decision to split The Crown's final season in half was not really that hard to understand. The streaming service wanted to take advantage of the show's fanbase and get as many viewers watching the show as possible. Since it cannot actually admit that
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The end of an era is nigh: The final episodes of The Crown will debut on Netflix this December, bringing the streamer's lavish, incredibly expensive, and occasionally controversial drama about the reign of England's Queen Elizabeth II to an end. How exactly the series plans to
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Netflix’s The Crown is back for its sixth and final season, split into two parts for reasons Netflix refuses to explain. Whether it’s the material or an overly sensitive approach following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the first half of the final season (four episodes in all)
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There are few things that are assured in life. Death, taxes, and the U.K. monarchy seem to be three of them, though it takes a lot of work for the last of them to maintain that illusion. However, the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the remarkably smooth way
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Writer Peter Morgan's major career breakthrough came in 2006 with The Queen, the Helen Mirren tour-de-force, where she played the then-living Queen Elizabeth II, based on the real-life events in the aftermath of Princess Diana's sudden death in a car crash in a tunnel in Paris
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The end of an era is nigh. Netflix has announced the premiere date for the final season of its Emmy Award-winning period drama The Crown, meaning that one of the streamer's most expensive and groundbreaking series is about to come to a close. The ambitious series, which aimed
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The Crown no longer holds the record as the most ambitious series a streaming service has ever greenlit (that title has been taken by Max's declared ten-season sight-unseen Potter series). However, it remains one of the pinnacles of Netflix's early ambitions. Six seasons, three casts, and
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The Crown's final two seasons landed at an awkward time for the Royal Family, though some might argue there would never be an ideal one. However, there's little argument the early seasons coincided with the Windsors on an upswing. With Prince Harry engaged to Meghan Markle
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Netflix's ultra-ambitious period drama, The Crown, only has two more seasons left, with Season 5 due to arrive before the end of 2022. But despite working hard to film seasons back to back, Season 6 is still in production. Writer Peter Morgan initially waffled on doing a sixth
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The Crown has finally managed to cast the first of Charles and Diana's son, the elder heir Prince Harry. But the choice is not without controversy. It is not easy to cast child actors. Let's make that clear from the start of this post. It was
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When Lesley Manville was announced in the role of Princess Margaret in Season 5 of The Crown, I lamented how writer Peter Morgan's choice to end with Season 5 robbed fans of the initially planned two seasons for the last round of the series' cast, including Imelda