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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Endearing, but not Engaging
- The No. Ladies' Detective Agency is to television as The Secret Life of Bees is to literature: it's palatable, and great for a beach vacation, but ultimately not stimula...
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Third Screen: The Really Terrible Orchestra Attacks America
- Heard novelist Alexander McCall Smith play in his beloved Really Terrible Orchestra at Town Hall Wednesday night, and all I can say is there is absolutely no danger they...
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Botswana is the Backdrop for New HBO Series
- A TV series based in Africa is premiering this weekend on a premium cable television channel that isn't inundated with images of poverty and corruption. Botswana has be...
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Third Screen: A Big HBO Series About a Woman Named Precious
- Photo (l to r): Actor Jill Scott, the late director Anthony Minghella, producer Amy Moore, and novelist Alexander McCall Smith on location. Photo courtesy of HBO. I conf...
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The Late Anthony Minghella's Last Leading Lady, Jill Scott, Remembers Working With Him
- Jill Scott, the star of BBC1's winning adaptation of 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency', has nothing but praise for its director, Anthony Minghella, who sadly died at t...
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Following the death of her father, resourceful Precious Ramotswe uses her inheritance to open the first female-owned detective agency in Botswana and soon finds herself investigating varied and often-improbable cases, assisted by her frighteningly efficient -- yet eccentric -- secretary, Grace Makutsi, in this lighthearted series adapted from the best-selling novels by Alexander McCall Smith.