Author Archives: Leah Rozen

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

By Leah Rozen | 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.

The Simpsons go to Downton Abbey

By Leah Rozen | 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.

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

By Leah Rozen | Posted on May 17th, 2013

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.

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

By Leah Rozen | Posted on May 15th, 2013

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

Call the Midwife’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 7

By Leah Rozen | Posted on May 13th, 2013

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.

‘Downton Abbey’ News Roundup: How Many More Seasons to Come?

By Leah Rozen | Posted on May 9th, 2013

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.)

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

By Leah Rozen | 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 ...

Cannes Film Festival Gets Britished Up

By Leah Rozen | 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.

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

By Leah Rozen | 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.