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Done with Downton? Check out your favorite sci-fi/fantasy genre actors in...
For you genre TV and film fans that got sucked into the BBC/PBS series Downton Abbey, now that the series is on hiatus are you ready to entirely re-immerse yourself back into sci-fi and fantasy? Or...
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Review–Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
PBS is airing a new documentary series tonight and re-broadcast October 22 focusing on the impact of comic book superheroes on America and American culture, in Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle....
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Sherlock Lives–The powerhouse series returns for Season 3
Review by C.J. Bunce There’s got to be a reason that the third season premiere of BBC’s Sherlock was the most downloaded episode ever at Youku.com, a major source of streaming TV content in China....
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Bionics improve animals’ lives in new PBS show
If you want to see a bit of faith that there is some goodness in humanity, you’ll want to check out a new show this Wednesday on PBS. My Bionic Pet tracks down the efforts of some compassionate,...
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Resurrecting King Richard III–Truths stranger than fiction
Three huzzahs for historical re-enactor Domenic Smee, a 26-year old from England who has become part of the coolest event in non-fiction television in years, revealing that a skeletal deformity may...
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borg.com’s Best TV of 2014
We love good TV. Nothing is better than looking forward each week to a show you can trust to have great writing and great acting. We’ve made our way through several series again this year, trying...
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Is The Great British Baking Show the best foodie show yet?
It is really hard to rival the greatest foodie show of all time–Iron Chef. A palpable battle to the death of sorts, or at least that’s the way it made us all feel. International theme and haute...
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SDCC 2016–PBS previews season four of Sherlock
First off, Sherlock Clue is real. Keep reading. From the new trailer PBS Masterpiece released this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con it appears we have a dark season ahead as Sherlock enters its fourth...
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Bill Murray receives national Mark Twain Prize
Tomorrow night Public Television stations will broadcast Sunday’s Kennedy Center ceremony honoring Bill Murray for his unique blend of comedy and social commentary. The Mark Twain Prize, first given...
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Victoria–Doctor Who’s Jenna Coleman stars in new series beginning tonight
Actress Jenna Coleman’s Clara, the cheery and sweet companion on BBC’s Doctor Who, moves on this year as a new companion joins the series in her place. But Coleman is already off to new things, and...
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PBS to highlight NASA accomplishments and space science in 2017
Yesterday the last man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 17 commander Capt. Eugene Cernan, passed away at age 82. Of the 24 men who visited the Moon and the 12 that walked on its surface Cernan leaves only...
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One POP! to Rule Them All–The latest Funko POP! is the last one you’ll ever need
It’s the latest sensation. This generation’s Beanie Babies. Like last year’s Pokémon Go, collectors just “gotta catch ’em all.” And Funko, the toy company that makes them exclusively, has licensed...
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Review–The Farthest: Voyager in Space, this year’s must-watch TV event
Review by C.J. Bunce Once every 176 years a window opens whereby humans can send spacecraft in a trajectory that would include Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Scientists knew of this pathway...
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Now streaming–A great police procedural awaits in BBC’s Shetland
Review by C.J. Bunce Netflix has been carrying BBC’s British police procedural series Shetland on Netflix for a few years, but now is a good time to get caught up on the series’ first three seasons as...
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Twenty years later, an animated Carmen Sandiego returns
Where in the world has Carmen Sandiego been lately? She’s been the subject of an ongoing series of video games since 1985. She was featured in two game shows, one a Peabody Award winner and the...
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Preview–BBC’s Shetland returns with fifth season of mystery and suspense
First airing in March 2013, BBC’s police procedural Shetland is part mystery, part action, part suspense drama set in the stark and beautiful Shetland Isles. It follows detective inspector Jimmy...
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Now streaming–The Woman in White adaptation a suspenseful thriller
Review by C.J. Bunce With the 1868 novel The Moonstone, author Wilkie Collins created what is widely considered to be the first modern English detective novel, creating the key beats that would...
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Now streaming–Masterpiece airing first three seasons of Brit cold case police...
Review by C.J. Bunce British crime dramas deserve some credit as a group–and PBS Masterpiece for re-airing them. Viewers never quite know what hoops the police will jump through next, the twists and...
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Unforgotten–Third season continues the crusade of DCI Stuart in...
Review by C.J. Bunce Just when you thought Nicola Walker′s (Collateral, Law & Order: UK, Luther) compassionate cop Detective Chief Inspector Cassie Stuart is fed up with humanity–with the...
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Professor T–Ben Miller stars in latest British series about a compulsive,...
Review by C.J. Bunce PBS is now airing a six-episode mystery series starring Ben Miller, best known for playing the first detective of many on the series Death in Paradise, an actor whose television...
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