~Lark Rise To Candleford Think of this show as the BBC version of Little House On the Prairie. It’s all warm and fuzzy and positively bursting at the seams with moral goodness. And I mean that in the nicest possible way because I love both shows. Lark Rise is a hamlet of poorer townsfolk while the market town of Candleford is its wealthier neighbor. Sixteen year old Laura Timmons (Laura Ingalls) is the bridge between the two, her adult voice narrating the stories. She leaves her family in Lark Rise to start a job at the post office with her mother’s…
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Martin Clunes is an endearing teddy bear of a man with a warm voice and a gentle soul. At least that is how I imagine he would be. His first television appearance was a Dr. Who episode back in 1983 and he’s been going strong ever since. He’s been in a variety of shows over the years with the most well known being Men Behaving Badly (which I’ve never seen) and the one below which shows a very different side of Martin than everything else he has done. Watch a few…you won’t be disappointed. ~Doc Martin Portwenn is the charming…
~Blue Murder In the opening episode pregnant Janine Lewis becomes a newly minted DCI and so takes home a bottle of champagne to celebrate with her husband — whom she discovers in bed with another woman. Ouch. But Janine doesn’t have time to cry over spilled milk —or champagne, which she immediately pours down the sink — and so the next scene shows her taking care of morning madness while getting kids out the door and herself to work. And that is, really, what sets this show apart from others of its ilk. Janine’s home life is messily entangled with her professional…
~The Night Manager Until watching this series I was pretty unfamiliar with Tom Hiddleston. While I knew of him, I certainly couldn’t remember actually watching him in anything. But this. This is an exotic, sexy stunner of a political thriller — and I must confess that I may have fallen just a teensy weensy bit in love with Tom’s mellifluous voice and mega watt smile. Hiddleston is Jonathon Pine, ex-soldier turned hotel night manager whom we first meet in Cairo. He is drawn into political drama by the beautiful, sensuous Sophie who asks him to photocopy a document detailing arms…
Doctor Foster I had heard a great deal about Dr Foster being one of the best British TV shows of 2015. Now, usually when you hear so much about a British show it’s because it’s gritty and deep and plunges you into the depths of despair — because this is what good British TV is all about. So I was surprised to watch this and find it a little, well — soapy. Here’s the premise. Dr Gemma Foster is a successful GP with a handsome, property developer husband and a bright, charming son. Life is good and Gemma is happy. We…
Foyle’s War This is the most unhurried of shows. No theatrics or explosive drama, just quietly understated performances and solidly written episodes. And all of it underscored by the oh-so-subtle and muted performance of Michael Kitchen who brilliantly plays the title character. Inspector Foyle is the master of the arched brow, twitch of the mouth and fleeting smile of mock surprise, expressing so much of what he has to say while saying nothing at all. And then — the dry zinger of a comment that puts someone firmly in their place. Foyle is a police officer in the seaside town of…
While not a particularly familiar face on this side of the Atlantic, Robson Green has starred in many a fabulous TV show in England, and I must confess to having something of a secret crush on him. I don’t know if it’s his boyish, cheeky charm or his Geordie accent but I would probably watch him in just about anything. On second thought, I take that back. He has several shows about fishing…not seen any of them. There are three in particular, however, that are well worth the watch, although two of them are a bit gruesome. Touching Evil After…