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Downton Abbey: Episode Two on Masterpiece Classic PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 17 January 2011 | 23 Comments »

Downton Abbey continued last night on Masterpiece Classic with episode two. After a great opening on PBS last Sunday to a record 7.6 million US viewers, this four-part Edwardian drama continues to charm and amaze me. The blending of the upstairs and downstairs lives of the residents of this stately manor house is compelling drama, [...]

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Downton Abbey: Episode One on Masterpiece Classic PBS – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 10 January 2011 | 50 Comments »

British period dramas have been the staple fare on Masterpiece Theatre on PBS (now Masterpiece Classic) for decades. It is easy to see why they selected Downton Abbey to open their celebratory 40th anniversary season. A huge hit when it aired in the UK last Fall, this new four-part Edwardian drama is set in an [...]

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Sherlock Season One: A Study in Pink, The Blind Banker and The Great Game, on Masterpiece Mystery PBS – A Guest Review by Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 3 December 2010 | 8 Comments »

Guest review of Masterpiece Mystery’s Sherlock: Season One by the co-author of Lady Vernon and Her Daughter: A Novel of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Caitlen Rubino-Bradway Recently, Masterpiece Mystery aired BBC’s contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective, simply titled Sherlock. Now, I think I should admit up front that I am an [...]

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Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Birth with a Blog Tour on September 29th, 2010

Posted in Victorian Authors, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 13 September 2010 | 36 Comments »

“He shrank from hearing Margaret’s very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her–while he was jealous of her–while he renounced her–he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.” Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South 2010 marks the bicentenary of mid-Victorian novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Gaskell’s birth on September 29th, 1810 near London. Best known [...]

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Retrace ‘The 39 Steps’ on Masterpiece Classic – A Recap & Review

Posted in Masterpiece Classic, tagged , , , , , on 28 February 2010 | 10 Comments »

The Masterpiece Classic 2010 season continued tonight with The 39 Steps staring British actor Rupert Penry-Jones (Persuasion 2007) in the classic role of Richard Hannay, a former British intelligence officer who is unjustly suspected of murder and must unravel a German espionage plot to save himself. Here is a brief introduction from PBS.  Newly returned [...]

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Sense and Sensibility (1971) – Movie Review

Posted in Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, Sense & Sensibility Movies, tagged , , on 29 December 2009 | 13 Comments »

I was quite excited when the news hit the blogosphere that the elusive 1971 mini-series of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was being resurrected from the vaults and reissued by the BBC. It originally aired in the UK, but had never jumped the pond until this re-issue. Now, I think I know why.  If you [...]

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