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TV REVIEW: Tales of the City – Limited Series

Regular readers of this blog will know that I watched and reviewed three previous mini-series based on the Tales of he City novels by Armistead Maupin. All of that was kicked off by seeing this series come up on Netflix. I started watching it and realised I had missed too much in between reading the first book and this follow up to the original series and wasn’t entirely sure what was going on or who everyone was.

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TV REVIEW: Further Tales of the City – Miniseries

Watching the third instalment of the Tales of the City series was a bit tricky since it’s not available on any streaming service I subscribe to or any of the free apps. The other two were on All4 but I couldn’t find this one anywhere but YouTube… which meant I could not download it for commute watching. I am not entirely sure I should have bothered.

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TV REVIEW: More Tales of the City

More Tales of the City charts the continued adventures of the residents of Barbary Lane in San Francisco, once again based on an eponymous novel by Armistead Maupin.

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TV REVIEW: Tales of the City – Season 1

A few years ago I read a book called Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin and rather enjoyed it. I was excited to see that Netflix was releasing a limited series of the same name and I started watching it… only to realise that it was actually the follow-up to three 90’s mini-series and that I couldn’t really remember what had happened in the book so I decided to try and track down the original series and low and behold two of them are on All4!

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