With the baseball playoffs looming, Saturday's schedule is laden with college football. Alabama hosts Florida (7 p.m., CBS) on CBS. They take their football seriously in Crimson Tide territory. Take ...

It makes sense that Kenneth Branagh idolizes Sir Laurence Olivier. After all, both actors have directed themselves in Shakespeare’s plays on stage and screen, including “Henry V.” In fact, early in ...

Kurt Wallander might look like your typical overworked police officer. But for actor Kenneth Branagh, becoming that character involved a thorough study of how to appear appropriately disheveled and ...

Mankell passed away in his sleep in Gothenburg, Sweden, aged 67, following a battle with cancer. He is best known for creating police detective Kurt Wallander for a series of crime novels released ...

He's Swedish, scruffy and makes Morse look like the laughing policeman. But Kenneth Branagh's new TV detective is truly magnificent. Every detective has his or her cross to bear in life. For Poirot, ...

LONDON — Kenneth Branagh, who received the Variety Award at the British Independent Film Awards on Sunday, took a break from filming the third series of detective series “Wallander” recently to attend ...

The BBC One series - based on the popular Swedish drama of the same name and the original Henning Mankell books - is likely to conclude with three more specials. The new series is expected to be a one ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Kenneth Branagh has come full circle. In 1988, PBS’ “Masterpiece Theatre ...