Period Drama

Onome Okwuosa reveals the facts of the fiction in creating the hit TV series Downton Abbey.

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An abandoned miniseries project produced two television films that are probably best described as 'forgettable', unless you are fans of Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee

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In 1964, at the height of Beatlemania in the UK, The Beatles took America by storm when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. And nothing would ever be the same again.

Blackadder the Third

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In the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George.

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It's Only A Game

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Andrew Cobby looks back at the golden age of snooker on the box.

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Downton Abbey - The Fact of Fiction