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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Sally Wainwright

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on Executive Producer, Writer and Director Sally Wainwright. Having a deep interest in writing since she was a little girl, Sally attended the University of York, studying English and Related Literature. While still at University, she took an original play entitled “Hanging On” to the Edinburgh Festival where she found an agent. …

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VICTORIA: “Young England” – To a New Generation! {Recap}

Victoria ended its first season with a bang (literally) and a baby, with many machinations in between. Victoria (Jenna Coleman) is just weeks away from giving birth to her first child, and all of England is worried. Or trying to kill her, depending on their leanings. The household staff is trying to ready the house for the new child, including …

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My Top 10 Choices for March TV

It’s so great to have year-round TV programming, isn’t it?! I know it makes for There are plenty of viewing options on the small screen next month and the following are my top choices for March: NEWCOMERS On March 5, the two-hour debut of the new ABC series Time After Time will air at 9 PM. The show stars Freddie …

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March TV Calendar

The following list provides the dates of the returning major and cable network dramas, the new dramas that will air major and cable networks as well as online and the made-for-TV movies that will air during March: March 1 – The unprecedented four-series crossover event featuring Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med and the new series Chicago Justice will air …

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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Daisy Goodwin

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on British TV Producer, Poetry Anthologist and Novelist Daisy Goodwin. Daisy attended Queen’s College in London and the Westminster School before studying history at Trinity College, Cambridge. She later went to Columbia Film School and then joined the BBC as a trainee arts producer in 1985. She spent ten years at the …

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VICTORIA: “The Engine Of Change” is Disconcerting {Recap}

Victoria is on the bring of many changes, neither of which appeal to the Queen at all. Victoria (Jenna Coleman) is pregnant, which is frustrating for her – fearing that she will be like Princess Charlotte and die giving birth – but that means that she needs Parliament to approve of Prince Albert (Tom Hughes) as her regent in case …

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VICTORIA: “The Queen’s Husband” {Recap}

Victoria must handle the rather difficult taste of how to emasculate Prince Albert but still keep him as a lesser to his wife, Queen Victoria in this week’s episode. Now that Albert (Tom Hughes) is married to the Queen (Jenna Coleman), there are ways in which he is stiffled by his place as her lesser royal. He is not allowed …

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VICTORIA: “An Ordinary Woman” {Recap}

Victoria, after giving us the whirlwind romance between Victoria (Jenna Coleman) and Albert (Tom Hughes), now gives us a royal wedding that will make everyone smile. However, despite a happy occasion, there are small troubles for the couple. Here’s the brief rundown of what did go wrong before their wedding night: Money Albert’s father is in need of money to …

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VICTORIA: “The Clockwork Prince” {Recap}

Victoria gave us an tease at Prince Albert last week, and this week, we see more and more of the man known as “The Clockwork Prince” by many people in Queen’s Victoria’s circle. Victoria (Jenna Coleman) finally has a man at her side, and this one isn’t chosen at the whim of her government’s ever-changing agenda. Prince Albert (Tom Hughes) …

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VICTORIA: Machinations to What End? {Recap}

Victoria kept the family backfighting up this week by introducing another of Victoria’s uncles, King Leopold of Belgium (Alex Jennings), comes to England as one more voice to talk to Victoria (Jenna Coleman) about marriage. To the consternation of all the adults in Victoria’s life, including her mother (Catherine Flemming), Victoria wants nothing to do with marrying anyone – especially …

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