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British period dramas often focus on specific eras more than others. There are numerous reasons for this, including the desire to remain within a recognizable level of societal structure that is familiar to modern audiences, or because a well-known character/author's works are set in a specific era.
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Most people track the changes in how we fly as having begun in 2001. However, the real moment air travel forever went from some glamorous lifestyle to a security nightmare was 1988, when the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Up until that incident, taking
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We've been covering the Welsh language and culture resurgence in the last few months as the Cymraeg 2050 project has started altering the U.K. TV landscape. But we would be remiss if we did not also note another surprising bilingualism that's been recently embraced by
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Not that round numbers are more meaningful milestones than prime numbers, but it speaks to how many projects have been delayed (and for how long) that in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Five, two docudramas are reviving the story of Pan Am 103, based on the famous
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I will be the first to admit I was wrong about The Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power. Sure, we here at Telly Visions enjoy the series; however, the process of creating those first two seasons was an utter mess, even without the 2020 pandemic and 2023 strike
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As we've been covering here at Telly Visions, BritBox is on the up and up since being bought out by the BBC. Auntie Beeb needed a successful international streamer, and BritBox was ready-made, with nearly 15 million subscribers outside of the U.K. Thus far, the BBC brass
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One of the few Eagle Eye Drama series that isn't on PBS, Suspect, the remake of the Danish hit Forhøret (Face to Face), is preparing to return for a second season. The first season, which debuted on BritBox at the end of 2022, starred James Nesbitt (Bloodlands) as
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It’s hard to gauge how bad a film people thought Back to Black was when it was released in Britain last month. The slightly dreaded biopic about the tragically short career of homegrown music sensation Amy Winehouse held at number one at the UK box office for two weeks,
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Move over Taylor Swift, Heartstopper is welcoming a new pop sensation to its soundtrack. The beloved webcomic adaptation about queer love, friendship, and the enduring roller coaster that is high school released a teaser for its upcoming third season, backed by a tantalizing snippet of a track from Billie Eilish’
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We've discussed the "Twin Film" phenomenon before here at Telly Visions. In 2022, David Tennant and Benedict Cumberbatch both signed on to play Alexander Litvinenko in dueling miniseries, Litvinenko and Londongrad. That wound up not amounting to much as the former wound up on Sundance Now
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Amy Winehouse's career lasted all of six years and two albums, beginning with the release of Frank in 2005, followed by the smash hit Back to Black in 2007, and ending with her death via overdose in 2011 at the age of 27. However, for those six years,
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Making a hit television show is not an easy task, even when one is in possession of all the ingredients. A great cast, a concept that's already road-tested, scripts that already work, a production studio full of people who are experienced in what sells and how to market