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Word of advice: if you’re thinking of moving to Paris, don’t travel back in time and move there when the Musketeers were about. Especially if this week’s episode is anything to go by. Case in point: prisoners are breaking free and causing chaos as they go, while the Red Guard apparently have failed to subdue … >
Things are hotting up in the world of Parisian politics as The Musketeers go looking for shiny things this week. The Queen of England (Olivia Poulet) has been robbed by a mysterious and dangerous highwayman on her visit to France – though Aramis quite rightly wants to know why the heck she was travelling without … >
The Duke of Orleans, King Louis’ brother, has been summoned. Apparently, Louis decided it would be a good time to reconcile and get on again. This would be nice, except for the fact that apparently it isn’t. For one thing, the Duke’s purse has been stolen, and it’s up to the Musketeers to recover it. … >
There’s panic on the streets of Paris in this week’s episode of The Musketeers, as our heroes discover a very different war at home to the one they faced against the Spanish. Some seriously shady business is going down when a massive grain harvest goes missing and riots break out, and it’s no surprise that … >
At last, The Musketeers make a triumphant return to BBC One with their final run of episodes, and I for one am positively beaming with delight about it. Season 3 opens on a dusty battlefield, our beloved heroes at war. With a rubbish general in charge, to boot, and it’s up to our heroes to … >
Fans of historical French adventurings rejoice, for The Musketeers is soon to be gracing our screens once again. The ten-part final season begins at 9.30pm on Saturday 28 May on BBC One and changes the gang’s allegiance to the crown, turns their personal lives upside down and compromises their loyalty to those they love, as well as their … >
From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers of The Cove, Discovery Channel’s acclaimed eco documentary Racing Extinction is out now on DVD. Using state-of-the-art technology and covert tactics, Racing Extinction follows a team of activists working to expose the ways in which many of the planet’s species’ populations are threatened, from endangered species trafficking to environmental damage. However, there … >
Who doesn’t love a good sci-fi story that addresses relatable political issues set in a near-recognisable world? That’s E4’s new six-part series The Aliens in a nutshell. In a Britain that otherwise looks a lot like ours, we learn in the first episode’s opening scenes that aliens crash-landed on the planet a few decades back, … >
Natasha and her family have packed up their things (along with a couple of wounded soldiers, because Natasha is just the sweetest little honeydew that ever there was) when she spies a bedraggled Pierre wandering the street. He can’t come with them, he tells her, because he’s going to kill Napoleon. That’s nice, dear. Pierre … >
I shouldn’t like to have lived in the Russia of War and Peace, as pretty as it may have been. The consequences of Natasha’s momentary lapse of sanity have come to light: James Norton plays Andrei here with a stoicism so fragile you can see his brokenness leaking out through the fractures in it – … >