‘Rome’: perfect for a snowy winter weekend
HBO pulled the plug on its “Rome” series in 2007 after only two seasons, but I didn’t catch up with the addictive show until HBO Video sent me the recently released “complete series” package. Now that...
View Article‘Downton Abbey’ cruises into season five
Like it or not, “Downton Abbey” is the most popular series in the history of PBS, drawing many more viewers than “Brideshead Revisited” or “The Jewel in the Crown” or “I Claudius.” It’s the creation of...
View ArticleThe return of ‘The Jewel in the Crown’
Everyone seems to agree that we are in the middle of a Golden Age of American television, but the new DVD of “The Jewel in the Crown” demonstrates that British television companies were doing...
View ArticleMissing Alistair Cooke on ‘Masterpiece Theater’
When I was researching a piece on the new “The Jewel in the Crown” DVD recently I had a great time paging through a lavishly illustrated history of “Masterpiece Theatre” that PBS put out in 1996 to...
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