Category: Media
-
Prince Harry Would Cast Damian to Play Him in The Crown – Feb 26, 2021
Fellow Gingers by Jake Kanter | Deadline | February 26, 2021 Prince Harry has become one of the first major royals to pass comment on The Crown after the show has grown into a cultural phenomenon for Netflix. In an interview with James Corden on CBS’s The Late Late Show, the Duke of Sussex admitted…
-
British Actors With the Best American Accents – Feb 25, 2021
Hall of Fame by Vince Mancini | Uproxx | February 25, 2021 Mastering an American accent has become a rite of passage for British and Australian actors, and assorted other former British colonies. It’s an interesting phenomenon: in America we send most of our young actors through the teenybopper homogenizing machine, which spits out enough…
-
PBS Masterpiece Hopeful To Be Involved with BBC’s Wolf Hall – Jan 9, 2021
PBS Wants Damian Back for Wolf Hall by Peter White | Deadline | January 8, 2021 PBS’ Masterpiece, which has been home to classic British dramas including Downton Abbey, Upstairs, Downstairs, Prime Suspect and the original House of Cards, turns 50 on January 10. Susanne Simpson, an exec producer on series including Downton Abbey, took…
-
Show Me the Money – Jan 9, 2021
TV Series Industry Cashes In On Finance Drama Boom by Michael Idato | The Sydney Morning Herald | January 9, 2021 In an economic era increasingly defined by tax avoidance, inequality and constant disruption, it seems unlikely that financial web-spinners in expensive suits would become the poster children of TV’s most popular dramas. And yet…
-
Masterpiece (PBS/BBC) Favorites of a More Recent Vintage – Jan 8, 2021
Two for Damian: Wolf Hall and The Forsyte Saga by Matthew Gilbert | Boston Globe | January 7, 2021 Here are some of my favorite Masterpiece shows, in no particular order. I have restricted the list to those that have aired in the past 25 years, which is why you won’t see the well-known classics,…
-
The 10 Best TV Needle Drops of 2020 – Dec 29, 2020
2020 Best TV Songs/Soundtrack Moments by Sean T. Collins | Vulture | December 29, 2020 “Vision†is right there in the name of the damn thing, but as a medium, television is as much dependent on sound as it is on sight. This year, from comedies to dramas, from terrestrial networks to streaming services, a…