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‘Orphan Black’ Star Tatiana Maslany Among BBC AMERICA’s Five Critics’ Choice TV Noms

By | Posted on May 22nd, 2013
Tatiana Maslany from 'Orphan Black'

The Broadcast Television Journalists’ Association have announced their Critics’ Choice Award nominations today, and BBC AMERICA scored five nominations. Tatiana Maslany received a nod in the Best Actress in a Drama category ...

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Prepare To Be Winded By The New ‘Man Of Steel’ Trailer

By | Posted on May 22nd, 2013
Man of Steel

Things that go boom are very impressive, aren’t they? Especially when you line them up in quick succession, one after the other. It’s like being hit in the face with a sockful of sand over and over and over again.

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Auction: ‘Downton Abbey’ Servant for an Evening

By | Posted on May 21st, 2013
(PBS)

Has it been a dream of yours to appear on Downton Abbey as an extra? To rub elbows with the upstairs and downstairs actors? Well … keep dreaming, because that’s not going to happen (at least this time around).

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‘Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Steven Moffat, Matt Smith, and Jenna Coleman Accept Peabody Award

By | Posted on May 21st, 2013
Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman and Steven Moffat at the Peabodys. (Photo: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Steven Moffat, Jenna Coleman, and a freshly shorn Matt Smith were in New York last night (May 20) to accept one of the highest honors in media, the Peabody award. Doctor Who picked up a special Institutional Peabody award for its ...

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Bearded Riff-Raff Invade The Chelsea Flower Show

By | Posted on May 21st, 2013
Celebrity Gnomes at the Chelsea Flower Show. You can tell which one Sir Elton made, can't you? (AP Images)

See these hirsute little men? See their pointy hats? I’m ashamed to admit that they have been allowed entry into one of the finest events in the British horticultural calendar: the Chelsea Flower Show, for the first time ever.

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Wait, Wait, John Barrowman’s New Show Is Called WHAT!?

By | Posted on May 21st, 2013
John Barrowman

If you’re a person with eyes, ears and critical faculties, you may have noticed that television schedules are already rather full of competitions in which people sing into microphones for the benefit of four imperious people in a ...

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George Michael Falls Out Of A Car At 70mph

By | Posted on May 21st, 2013
George Michael has still got it! (Photo via AP)

George Michael, singer of hit songs, and former leader of the ’80s pop duo Wham!, has been leading an interesting life in the past few years, and despite a series of events that looks fairly disastrous on paper, has managed to ...

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12 British Actors Who Got Started In Soaps

By | Posted on May 20th, 2013
Joanna Lumley on 'Coronation Street' (Granada TV)

Never mind the Billboards, the real trophy-doling fun of the weekend happened on Saturday night, at the British Soap Awards, in which the great, the good and the downright torrid rubbed fake-tanned shoulders and practised the most ...

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J.K. Rowling’s Handwritten Notes Up for Auction

By | Posted on May 20th, 2013
(Sotheby's)

When first re-reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, author J.K. Rowling went back and made some notes in the margins. Now, those notes, are up for auction.

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‘Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 8

By | Posted on May 20th, 2013
Season two of Call the Midwife comes an end. (PBS)

There were happy endings and new beginnings even as possible threats gathered on the horizon by the time the end credits rolled on the Season 2 finale of Call the Midwife, the popular BBC-produced series that airs on PBS in the U.S.

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