MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Actress Pippa Bennett-Warner on playing a 1950s detective’s assistant – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/09/2024
Daniel Mays, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Tim McMullan in MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS | ©2024 PBS/ Eleventh Hour Films

In MOONFLOWER MURDERS, Sunday nights on PBS MASTERPIECE, actual retired English book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) and fictional ‘50s master detective Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) are both back on the case. In the previous MAGPIE MURDERS, Susan had been the editor on all of the Atticus Pünd mystery novels. When the last book led to the murder of Atticus’s creator, unpleasant novelist Alan Conway (Conleth Hill), Susan wound up solving the crime. Surprisingly, Atticus began appearing to Susan and giving her oblique advice, at the same time he was busy solving the 1950s case that Alan had written for […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STARVE ACRE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/26/2024
STARVE ACRE movie poster | ©2024 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards, Robert Emms, Sean Gilder, Melanie Kilburn, Arthur Shaw, Roger Barclay Writer: Daniel Kokotajlo, based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley Director: Daniel Kokotajlo Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: July 26, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) Based on Andrew Michael Hurley’s 2019 novel, STARVE ACRE is set in contemporary northern England. It begins with a poem, “The Dandelion,” by Neil Willoughby, which we observe is actually an invocation for a kind of devil. We’ll find out more about the poem’s author by and by. Meanwhile, university professor Richard (Matt Smith), his […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE OWNERS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/04/2020
THE OWNERS movie poster |©2020 RLJE Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Andrew Ellis, Jake Curran, Ian Kenny Writers: Mathieu Gompel & Julius Berg, with the participation of Geoff Cox, based on the comic book UNE NIGHT DE PLEINE LUNE by Yves H. and Hermann Director: Julius Berg Distributor: RLJE Films Release Date: September 4, 2020 THE OWNERS is one of those horror thrillers where much of the suspense comes from figuring out exactly what is going on here. We start out amid rolling green hills in England, with nary a soul in sight. Then we focus on a beaten-up car, parked […]Read On »


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BREEDERS: Co-creators Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison on the new FX comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/02/2020
Martin Freeman as Paul. in BREEDERS - Season 1| ©2020 FX/Pamela Littky

BREEDERS premieres its ten-episode first season on FX on Monday, March 2, and it thereafter available on FX on Hulu. The comedy about the sometimes exasperating ups and downs of parenting young children is seen through the eyes of English couple Paul, played by Martin Freeman, and Ally, played by Daisy Haggard. BREEDERS was reportedly inspired by a dream Freeman had about his real-life experiences as a father. Freeman created BREEDERS with fellow Britons writer/executive producer Simon Blackwell (Oscar-nominated for the IN THE LOOP screenplay and an Emmy winner for his work on VEEP; other credits include HBO’s current AVENUE […]Read On »


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BRITBOX: Network President Soumya Sriraman on the U.S. streaming service and more – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/30/2019
BRITBOX Network President Soumya Sriraman | courtesy of Britbox

Launched in 2017, Britbox is a streaming service dedicated to bringing the best of BBC and ITV fare to the United States. Soumya Sriraman (first name rhymes with “home ya” and surname is pronounced Sree-rah-man), President of Britbox North America, sits down for an extensive discussion of the company that brings an enormous amount of British television to U.S. viewers. ASSIGNMENT X: What made U.K. TV networks BBC and ITV decide to join hands and create Britbox? SOUMYA SRIRAMAN: It kind of had to be done. The thing that both BBC and ITV have done for a long time is […]Read On »


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CAMPING: Co-creator Jenni Konner on new HBO comedy series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/16/2018
CAMPING - Season 1 Key Art | ©2018 HBO

HBO’s Sunday-night half-hour comedy CAMPING is based on a British series of the same name, which was created by Julia Davis. Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who both serve as executive producers on the new edition, adapted the American version for HBO. Jennifer Garner stars as ultra-controlling Kathryn McSorley-Jodell, who plans a group camping trip to celebrate the fortieth birthday of mild-mannered husband Walt (David Tennant). The excursion brings out the worst in everyone. Konner, who was also a executive producer on HBO’s GIRLS with Dunham (the two ended their creative partnership earlier this year), directed several episodes of CAMPING, […]Read On »


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David Tennant chats about his new thriller BAD SAMARITAN – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/02/2018
BAD SAMARITAN poster | ©2018 Electric Entertainment

In the new film thriller BAD SAMARITAN, opening nationwide on Friday, May 4, parking valet/burglar Sean, played by Robert Sheehan, tries to rescue a kidnapped woman from wealthy, techno-savvy American psychopath Cale Erendreich, portrayed by David Tennant. BAD SAMARITAN is written by Brandon Boyce and directed and executive produced by Dean Devlin. Tennant and Boyce both appeared at a press conference with Sheehan and Devlin to discuss the creepy new thriller (watch this space for exclusive interviews with the latter two). Scottish actor Tennant is beloved worldwide for playing the Tenth Doctor on DOCTOR WHO. Other recent roles have included […]Read On »


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GOTHAM: Sean Pertwee chats Season 4 and all things Alfred – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/21/2018
Sean Pertwee in GOTHAM - Season 4 | ©2017 Fox/Tommy Garcia

On Fox Network’s GOTHAM, now on Thursday night in its fourth season, Sean Pertwee plays Alfred Pennyworth. Alfred, as anyone who knows anything about Batman is aware, is the unquestionably loyal butler and guardian to Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz), who is steadily becoming more invested in crime-fighting, though he has not yet become the Caped Crusader. GOTHAM unsurprisingly has a cult following. Pertwee came to the series already accustomed to to the concept of fandom. Not only has the London-born actor appeared in a number of projects that have developed their own admirers – the films DOG SOLDIERS, EVENT HORIZON […]Read On »


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KING CHARLES III: The late actor Tim Pigott-Smith on his final roles – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/14/2017
Tim Pigott-Smith in KING CHARLES III | Photo Courtesy of Robert Viglasky/Drama Republic for BBC and MASTERPIECE

Actor Tim Pigott-Smith, the subject of this interview, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 70 on April 7, 2017, a little under three months after this interview was conducted. He was at the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour in Pasadena, California, to talk about the film version of KING CHARLES III. KING CHARLES III began life as a stage play. It seems Shakespearean, dealing with the English throne and written by Mike Bartlett entirely in iambic pentameter, but in fact it deals with issues of present and future. The premise of KING CHARLES III is that Queen […]Read On »


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THE MUSKETEERS: EP Jessica Pope on Season 3 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/09/2017
Luke Pasqualino is D'Artagnan in THE MUSKETEERS | ©2014 BBC America/Larry Horricks

Jessica Pope is one of the executive producers of THE MUSKETEERS. This latest take on Alexandre Dumas’ tale of loyalty and adventure in seventeenth-century France star Luke Pasqualino as D’Artagnan, Tom Burke as Athos, Santiago Cabrera as Aramis and Howard Charles as Porthos, with Peter Capaldi as their Season 1 adversary Cardinal Richelieu. THE MUSKETEERS debuted its first two seasons in the U.S. on BBC America, but its third and final season debuted on Hulu, where all seasons are now available. Pope (whose other credits include DALZIEL & PASCOE, THE STATE WITHIN and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY) talks about making MUSKETEERS, […]Read On »


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