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Tatiana Maslany Orphan Black new star

March 22, 2013 Barb Oates

Tatiana Maslany Orphan Black – New Star Of BBC America Series The idea of knowing there’s a clone of you certainly has a creepy intrigue factor about it and BBC America plays off that in its new sci-fi thriller series Orphan Black, debuting Saturday, March 30 at 9pm ET. The series follows a troubled woman named Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, The Vow) whose life takes a dramatic turn when she witnesses the suicide of a woman who looks exactly like her. Sarah quickly reacts to Beth’s suicide by grabbing her purse, then eventually assuming her identity, her boyfriend and her bank […]

Matthew Macfadyen hunts Jack the Ripper in BBC America’s “Ripper Street”

January 19, 2013 Channel Guide Contributor

Whitechapel, London, 1889. The time and the place are synonymous with the most infamous unsolved murder cases in history, and they’re the setting for this new series coming to BBC America’s Dramaville beginning January 19. Matthew Macfadyen stars as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, investigator of the Ripper murders and other crimes. Alongside him is Capt. Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), the forensic investigator whose way with an autopsy renders him invaluable to Reid’s mission as the body count on the street starts to mount. It’s a fairly remarkable series, to start, but we have to admit that we’re glad that we […]

Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan inspired by Steve Irwin

January 6, 2013 Barb Oates

Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan follows actor/wildlife enthusiast Dominic Monaghan (Lost) on his hunt for some seriously creepy creatures — from flesh-slicing army ants and thick-tailed scorpions to the world’s largest centipede, rumored to snatch bats right out of the air. Monaghan told TV critics at the 2013 TCA Winter Press Tour that Steve Irwin really was the inspiration on getting his wildlife adventure series into production. The series premieres on BBC America Jan. 22. “Steve Irwin is one of the major reasons why I made the show. I was in Hawaii shooting Lost and was pretty devastated by his […]

Tom Weston-Jones leads BBC America’s “Copper”

August 16, 2012 StayTuned Staff

The folks at BBC America have a solid reputation for delivering some of the best in British comedy and drama. It’s taken them a while to finally get into the original drama game, but from the looks of it, they’re starting off on the right foot. The 10-part series Copper takes viewers to 1860s New York City, to the world of Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones, MI-5), a rough Irish-American policeman working the notorious Five Points neighborhood. Having returned from the Civil War to find his daughter dead and his wife missing, Corcoran is driven to divine their fate, even as […]

Inside BBC America’s “Inside Men” with Warren Brown

June 14, 2012 StayTuned Staff

It’s one of those projects that you almost can’t talk about. If I tell you anything substantial about BBC America’s Dramaville: Inside Men it’ll give away the story and the suspsense. But it’s enough to say that Inside Men uses a jigsaw-puzzle narrative approach to tell the story of a trio of cash reserve facility workers who work together to pull off the biggest cash theft in British history. Two of the men, John and Chris — played brilliantly by Steven Mackintosh (Luther) and Ashley Walters (Hustle) — are measured and calculating. The third, Marcus, is impulsive and occasionally stupid — […]

BBC America’s “White Heat” is a sobering trip to the past

May 4, 2012 StayTuned Staff

The name of the miniseries may riff on the Velvet Underground, but Dramaville: White Heat itself seems to arrive at the mid-’60s via an ’80s vehicle, The Big Chill. Starting in the present day, this six-part story, premiering May 9 at 10pm ET/PT, centers on a group of friends reuniting after one of them commits suicide. You don’t know who the deceased is. Told in flashback, White Heat traces the original diverse group of seven as they meet as flatmates in London’s Tufnell Park in 1965. They establish themselves as a sort of commune under the idiosyncratic direction of Jack […]

BBC America gritty period drama “Copper” is in the works

February 9, 2012 StayTuned Staff

I’ll be looking forward to this one. BBC America announced today the start of production on its first original drama series. Copper is “a gripping crime series set in 1860s New York City,” and stars Tom Weston-Jones (MI-5) as rough-hewn, coarse Irish-American detective Kevin Corcoran, who stalks the streets of the notoriously tough Five Points neighborhood. Audiences have had glimpses of historically troubled Five Points before, most notably in Martin Scorsese’s 2002 Gangs of New York. A seedy, filthy and run-down area where the desperate and the destitute eked out their livings — or tried not to die, as Gangs […]

“Absolutely Fabulous” 20th Anniversary Specials, round 2

February 9, 2012 StayTuned Staff

Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley are back in the roles that made them obnoxious, famous and fabulous. Following on the heels of the 2012 BAFTA Film Awards, the second of three Absolutely Fabulous specials will premiere on BBC America this Sunday, Feb. 12 at 11pm ET/PT, bringing Eddy and Pats back with the long-suffering Saffron (Julia Sawalha) in tow. Last time out was a homecoming, Patsy having been “away” for a while, but the two were essentially unchanged — Patsy was still living the fast life and Edina was still doing the PR thing and trying to stay on top […]

BBC America’s “Primeval” Season 5 is set to stun

November 9, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Follow @ChannelGuide These are good times for sci-fi fans. With the knowledge of our universe expanding and time and space showing an elasticity that, in the past, we could only barely have dreamed, the imaginations of today’s sci-fi writers are fertile with theoretical possibility — regardless of plausibility, of course. Fans of Primeval will get a rich sampling of those possibilities when the series returns to BBC America for Season 5 this Saturday, Nov. 12. The opening of Primeval‘s new season finds the rips in time — anomalies — opening up across the UK with greater frequency and with further-reaching […]

BBC America’s “Whitechapel” gets Dramaville all bloody — again

October 19, 2011 StayTuned Staff

Follow @ChannelGuide It ain’t called Dramaville for nothing. Starting next week, BBC America’s new home for top-shelf British drama heads to the streets of East London for a six-parter that puts a stylish spin on two infamous cases from the area’s past — the unsolved murders of Jack the Ripper and the nefarious doings of 1960s crime twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Dramaville: Whitechapel, from the producers of Downton Abbey, premieres Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 10pm ET and stars Rupert Penry-Jones (Persuasion), Phil Davis (Bleak House) and Steve Pemberton (The League of Gentlemen) as a trio working together to solve […]