Author Archives: Leah Rozen

The Simpsons go to Downton Abbey

By | Posted on May 17th, 2013
Where do The Simpsons end and Downton Abbey begins? (Screen Shot)

The pixels were barely dry on P. Diddy’s parody video of Downton Abbey before a new one popped up on YouTube, this time featuring those paragons of elegance and gracious living, the Simpsons.

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WATCH: P. Diddy Joins Cast of ‘Downton Abbey’ in Spoof

By | Posted on May 17th, 2013
(Screen Shot)

The Downton Abbey spoofs just keep coming. The latest, which is totally NSFW, stars P. Diddy (aka Puff Daddy and Sean Combs), the rapper-music business mogul-actor.

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WATCH: Dan Stevens’ First Movie Role Post-’Downton Abbey’

By | Posted on May 15th, 2013
(Crossday Productions)

Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens, who played Matthew Crawley on the series, is hoping to prove that there’s life after death.

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Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 7

By | Posted on May 13th, 2013
(PBS)

Nonnatus House meets Hell’s Angels. That was what happened in the latest episode of Call the Midwife, with leather-wearing nuns and helmeted midwives zooming about on powerful, low rider hogs through London’s East End in 1958.

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‘Downton Abbey’ News Roundup

By | Posted on May 9th, 2013
(AP)

Downton Abbey may be off the air until the start of Season 4 but that doesn’t mean there’s no news of the show or its stars. (Season 4 will begin showing in the U.K. in September and in the U.S. on January 5.)

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‘Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 6

By | Posted on May 6th, 2013
Cynthia and Trixie distributing pamphlets about the X-rays. (PBS)

This week’s episode of Call the Midwife, the British series about a group of nurses and nuns who see to the medical needs of the poor living in London’s East End in the late 1950s, was a solid one.  It lacked only in an appearance ...

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Cannes Film Festival Gets Britished Up

By | Posted on May 3rd, 2013
Carey Mulligan in The Great Gatsby. (Warner Bros.)

The Cannes do spirit is soon upon us. In less than two weeks, everyone who is anyone in the film world will be chomping on croissants while sauntering down the Croisette in Cannes.

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‘Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 5

By | Posted on April 29th, 2013
Trixie Franklin falls for the charming Clifford Raines. (PBS)

In an episode that would spark massive controversy if it were on an American TV show, the focus was squarely on birth control and abortion in the latest chapter of Call the Midwife, the popular BBC show that airs on the PBS in the U.S.

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Tilda Swinton Honors Roger Ebert in Dance-Along

By | Posted on April 26th, 2013
(AP)

Tilda Swinton is a dancing queen, though it’s crooner Barry White whom she favors rather than Abba.

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‘Downton Abbey’ Gets a Musical Makeover by Broadway Stars

By | Posted on April 24th, 2013
Colin Mochrie as Julian Fellowes

Hey gang at Downton Abbey, let’s put on a show.

That was the impetus for the latest video spoof of the hit British TV show.  In the 10-minute parody, a group of Broadway performers, including Tony winner Randy Graff and Smash’s Jeremy Jordan, perform in an all-musical episode ...

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