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Feb 1st 2016, 3:54 pm

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Agreed - I was also a little surprised to see an actress from this season's 'The Good Wife'

Yes, odd the way The good Wife has hired key cast members who are Brits but who one assumes are supposed to be basically American... with more-or-less American accents. Archie Punjabi as Kalinda Sharma and now Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn.

Feb 1st 2016, 4:19 pm

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Agreed - I was also a little surprised to see an actress from this season's 'The Good Wife'

Yes, that threw me. I knew I'd seen her but the accent was off, but I got there in the end

Feb 2nd 2016, 9:10 am

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Agreed - I was also a little surprised to see an actress from this season's 'The Good Wife'

Spoiler:

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Feb 2nd 2016, 11:16 am

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well that explains why her character was killed off in Vera in the first episode, and of course, Alan Cumming (Eli from The Good Wife) is also a Brit. Rob Kazinski, ex Eastenders, has also just got the main role in 'Second Chance' an other US series.

Spoiler alert

Feb 2nd 2016, 1:20 pm

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Yeah, good catch. I forgot to list Alan Cumming as yet another one of the "stealth" Brits playing Americans in The good Wife.

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Feb 3rd 2016, 1:42 pm

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Endeavour set to return for a fourth series (From Oxford Mail)

Endeavour, will be back for another series...

Feb 8th 2016, 12:48 am

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The Good Wife has been canned.

Feb 8th 2016, 4:41 pm

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The Good Wife finishes this season, there are just 9 more episodes to go...

Feb 10th 2016, 10:02 pm

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Happy Valley, second series just started yesterday....another cheery show that one

Feb 11th 2016, 8:39 pm

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Stan Lee's Lucky Man is worth checking out. Stars James Nesbitt.

Stan Lee's Lucky Man review – James Nesbitt gets a touch of Marvel superpower | Television & radio | The Guardian

Feb 13th 2016, 12:03 pm

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Any British Bake Off fans catching the Sports Relief charity bake off?

Feb 13th 2016, 12:24 pm

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Re: UK TV Programs

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Any British Bake Off fans catching the Sports Relief charity bake off?

Yes, we were. But where is episode 3??? Been looking out for it on iPlayer.

Feb 13th 2016, 2:40 pm

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Yes, we were. But where is episode 3??? Been looking out for it on iPlayer.

We've not been watching....had intended to wait for it to finish and watch the whole thing over the holidays...

Feb 13th 2016, 2:53 pm

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Yes, we were. But where is episode 3??? Been looking out for it on iPlayer.

Perhaps they rescheduled due to an FA cup replay clashing?

Feb 26th 2016, 8:21 pm

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The Night Manager

Just started a week ago. Quite the Brit cast, with Hugh Laurie and a bunch of other folks you'll recognise.

It's a little silly, as the main guy, who's also being tipped as an outsider for a potential Bond, but anyway, he plays a hotel manager and gets roped into a bit of the spy game, passing on information from guests of the hotel.

A lot of fun though and worth a punt and quite a good bit of a back story they started to build up.