Browse the current lineup of NBC TV shows. Watch full episodes, video clips and exclusives, read cast bios and browse photos on NBC.com. TheINQUIRER publishes daily news, reviews on the latest gadgets and devices, and INQdepth articles for tech buffs and hobbyists. As Cote de Pablo's eight-year run came. Poldark review by Jan Moir. The black moon is a- hanging in the night skies above Cornwall, a portent that makes Aunt Agatha’s mob cap quiver with dread. Upstairs Elizabeth is with child, but whose child is she with? Hush. Let us not speak of these things now, for she is in the final stages of labour, and her screams would put Fay Wray in King Kong to shame. Scroll down for video He's back: The third series of BBC1’s hit period drama began last night and wasted no time in establishing the usual dark ’n’ stormy mood. Screaming success: Elizabeth is with child, but whose child is she with? Evil: George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) with the baby Outside the rain falls, the sea churns and urgent hooves gallop back and forth across windswept cliffs. What does all this mean? That Prudie is on her way back from the shops with a jigger’s worth of rum and a jellied pilchard? No, my friends. It means that the mighty Poldark is amongst us once more – and not a moment too soon. The third series of BBC1’s hit period drama began last night and wasted no time in establishing the usual dark ’n’ stormy mood. Within short order there was a bolting horse, a curse by candlelight, two deaths and the arrival of the brothers of Poldark’s wife Demelza to beef up the hunk quotient. Sam and Drake Carne were left behind when their big sis fled their abusive father way back in series one. Now they have come to join her near Captain Ross’s cottage Nampara, and (eventually) to pose topless in the traditional Poldark rite of passage. Both men somehow managed to keep their crumpled linens on in this episode, although it won’t be long before they are bathing in streams, scything random grasses and skinny- dipping in time- honoured Poldark tradition. All we have discovered so far is that sallow- skinned Sam (Tom York) is a Methodist preacher who puts soul- saving at the top of his CV, while younger brother Drake (Harry Richardson) is more of a free spirit with an eye for the ladies. It wasn’t long before he was giving new governess Morwenna (Ellise Chappell) lingering looks. And no wonder, for she has sweet nature, an excellent straw hat and a really nice blow dry. Should I mention that Sam, Drake and Demelza look absolutely nothing like each other, with a physical family resemblance reminiscent of Sooty, Sweep and Soo? In fact, they both look more like Captain Poldark than anyone else, but as he already has offspring issues, let us not complicate matters. The opening scenes found heroic Poldark (Aidan Turner) saving Elizabeth (Heida Reed) from certain death, when her horse bolted at a cliff edge. Get the latest news on celebrity scandals, engagements, and divorces! Check out our breaking stories on Hollywood?s hottest stars!Greetings, my Westerosi window envelopes! As you can probably guess, last week’s episode of Game of Thrones—and its increasing dominance over the pop culture. After the 24: Live Another Day event series, which extended the original series with another chapter featuring Jack Bauer & Co., Fox is going for a full reboot with. Our trend continues: A couple surprisingly good scenes, and then some really bad ones. Overall, I thought Episode 5 was a pleasant one — not too challenging but had. No wonder it took fright – the poor creature was probably stressed out at having a nine- months- pregnant woman riding side saddle on its back. Evil George Warleggan (Jack Farthing) refused to thank Ross, who slunk back home to continue thatching the barn. Still, these are good times for our favourite Cornishman. For once, Mr Pascoe (Richard Hope) of Pascoe’s bank, he of the Cornish Toby Jug face and the kindly twinkle, has good news for Poldark. Drake Carne (Harry Richardson) is more of a free spirit with an eye for the ladies. The Poldark boy band curls are still a- bobbing under the Poldark hat, the Poldark smoulder is older but no less bolder. For on this fine day in 1. Poldark mines do prosper, the Poldark lands thrive, the Poldark family are well and the Poldark accounts are like the quintessential Poldark soul – deep in the black. Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) warns her husband that he works too hard and worries too much. Meanwhile, Dr Enys (Luke Norris) has joined up and is on 2. French Revolution. At some point, he also clearly left the front for Paris, where designer John Galliano appears to have rustled up his splendid uniform on a theme of Little Boy Blue meets Thunderbirds, with buttons supplied by Adam Ant. I say that, but it only makes Dwight look more divine and dashing, with a slow smile that could cure most female ailments, certainly anything befalling my trembling old heart. Enys has returned to marry big- hatted heiress Caroline Penvenen (Gabriella Wilde), the only woman in Cornwall who can afford lipstick. Everyone else must pout with nowt, but not her. Demelza and Prudie did the eats for the wedding breakfast. The menu appeared to consist of Waitrose cranberry- topped pork pies, a giant drum of pastry, strawberries and what appeared to be a platter of Aunt Agatha’s teeth. The opening scenes found heroic Poldark (Aidan Turner) saving Elizabeth (Heida Reed) from certain death, when her horse bolted at a cliff edge. No wonder it took fright – the poor creature was probably stressed out at having a nine- months- pregnant woman riding side saddle on its back. Poldark made a welcome return to form, with rather less of the depressing porridge of poverty that sluiced through the last series. Is Prudie (Beatie Edney) missing her husband? The Warleggans are even ghastlier, Demelza is tougher than ever, Aunt Agatha (Caroline Blakiston) has become a comedy turn but, most importantly, Ross has lost none of his charm. Is there anything this man cannot do? Last night found him thatching, damsel- saving, provisioning and tin- mining, whilst organising a wedding and (perhaps) becoming a father again. After all that, the Poldark boy band curls are still a- bobbing under the Poldark hat, the Poldark smoulder is older but no less bolder, and the Poldark scar still scythes that handsome cheek. Have you noticed that it grows fainter, like a gossamer teardrop, like a darling ten- denier defect, like the shadow of a hurt from a woman he once loved? Does that mean he is healing on the inside as well as the outside? Radiolab. Producer Pat Walters brings us a detective story from the Cold War, about a mysterious substance that fell from the sky in Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam war. As retired CIA officer Merle Prebbenow explains, once the US pulled its troops out of the region, the communists took over - - the Viet Cong and their allies in Laos the Pathet Lao. Eng Yang, who was living in a tiny village in Laos in 1. Eng, who talked to us with his niece Kao Kalia Yang translating, is Hmong. Thousands of Hmong fought alongside the Americans during the war, and when the US left, they were targeted by Viet Cong and Pathet Lao, who were out for revenge. Eng says it started with isolated killings, until one day, his whole village was attacked. He and thousands of other Hmong fled their homes and went into hiding in the jungle. And that's when they started seeing it - - yellow droplets that fell from the sky and splattered the landscape, followed by dying plants, animals, and eventually friends and family doubled over with stomach problems. When US scientists looked at the yellow spots, they found poison, and pretty soon . Chemical weapons expert Matt Meselson and biologist Thomas Seeley, two scientists bent on analyzing the substance, tell us what happened when they challenged the original reports (which were used to justify the production of a chemical weapon by the US back in the early 8. And when we explain their views to Eng, who saw loved ones die, and who fled his home in Laos to escape, we have to reckon with a very different kind of truth. Editor's Note: This segment, which was originally podcast on September 2. October 5th, 2. 01. Read more: Robert responds to concerns about this segment. Jad offers more context on this segment. Kao Kalia Yang's The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. Thomas Seeley's Honeybee Democracy. Merle Pribbenow's article. Fox Orders Pilot For New ’2. With Black Hero To Succeed Jack Bauer. After the 2. 4: Live Another Day event series, which extended the original series with another chapter featuring Jack Bauer & Co., Fox is going for a full reboot with 2. Legacy, a new ongoing series with all- new characters. Fox has given a pilot order to the project from the 2. Howard Gordon, Manny Coto and Evan Katz, with Brian Grazer as executive producer. Original star Kiefer Sutherland is not expected to reprise his role as Bauer but may be creatively involved in the project. The new 2. 4 series will revolve around a military hero’s return to the U. S. I hear the twentysomething man, Eric Carter, was conceived as an African American, and the actors considered and approached for the part so far all have been black. Depending on how the casting process goes, I hear the character’s ethnicity could change but he will remain diverse. The female lead is a woman with a long history at the agency, a former head of CTU. Legacy retains the original’s real- time format with split screens and complex interweaving storylines, each episode representing one hour of an eventful day. Stephen Hopkins, who directed the original 2. Legacy. There will likely be mentions of former CTU members from the original 2. The pilot order comes after Gordon, Coto and Katz delivered a script, written by Coto and Katz, in December, which was very enthusiastically received at Fox. Legacy is produced by 2. Century Fox Television, Imagine Television and Gordon’s Teakwood Lane Productions. Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer, Manny Coto and Evan Katz are executive producers. The original series, which ran for 8 seasons, was created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran. It won an Emmy for best drama series and Sutherland won for best actor in a drama series.
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