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The Durrells

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The Durrells (also known as The Durrells in Corfu on American television) is a British comedy-drama series based on Gerald Durrell's three autobiographical books about his family's four years (1935–1939) on the Greek Island of Corfu, which began airing on 3 April 2016. [1]

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Alexis Conran

Alexis Conran (or Alex Conran) is a British Actor, writer and TV presenter, best known for co-hosting the BBC Three show The Real Hustle from 2006 until 2012.

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Alexis Georgoulis

Alexis Georgoulis (Αλέξης Γεωργούλης; born 6 October 1974) is a Greek actor and producer who became particularly popular in Greece after his participation in the 2001 Greek television series Eisai to Tairi mou.

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Anna Savva

Anna Savva is an actress who has appeared in many British TV shows since 1985.

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Barbara Flynn

Barbara Flynn (born Barbara Joy McMurray; 5 August 1948) is an English actress.

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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) by British naturalist Gerald Durrell is the second volume of his autobiographical Corfu Trilogy, published from 1954 to 1978.

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Bournemouth

Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town on the south coast of England to the east of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, long.

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Broadcasters' Audience Research Board

The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) is the organisation that compiles audience measurement and television ratings in the United Kingdom.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Christopher Hall (producer)

Christopher John Hall (born 30 March 1957) is a British TV drama producer, who has produced dramas primarily for the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 networks, and worked for major British production companies including Kudos, Carnival Films, Hat Trick Productions, and Tiger Aspect.

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Comedy-drama

Comedy-drama, also known as dramedy (portmanteau of words drama and comedy), is a genre in film and television works in which plot elements are a combination of comedy and drama.

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Corfu

Corfu or Kerkyra (translit,; translit,; Corcyra; Corfù) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Daisy Waterstone

Daisy Waterstone is a British actress, best known for playing Margo Durrell in the ITV family drama The Durrells, starring alongside Keeley Hawes, Milo Parker and Josh O'Connor.

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Daniel Lapaine

Daniel Lapaine (born 15 June 1971) is an Australian stage, film and television actor, currently residing in London.

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Durrell family

The Durrell family included: Lawrence Samuel Durrell (1884–1928), an Anglo-Indian engineer, his wife Louisa Florence Durrell (1886–1964) and their children.

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Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is a conservation organization with a mission to save species from extinction.

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Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London.

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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Gerald Durrell

Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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James Cosmo

James Cosmo Copeland, MBE (born 27 October 1947), known professionally as James Cosmo, is a Scottish actor known for his appearances in films including Highlander, Braveheart, Trainspotting, Troy, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Ben-Hur and Wonder Woman, as well as television series such as Game of Thrones and Sons of Anarchy.

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Jersey Evening Post

The Jersey Evening Post (JEP) is a local newspaper published six days a week in the Bailiwick of Jersey.

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Josh O'Connor

Josh O'Connor (born 20 May 1990) is a British actor.

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Keeley Hawes

Keeley Clare Julia Hawes (born 10 February 1976) is an English actress.

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Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.

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Lawrence Samuel Durrell

Lawrence Samuel Durrell (23 September 1884 – 16 April 1928) was a British Indian subject and engineer, and is best remembered as the father of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell.

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Lee McGeorge Durrell

Lee McGeorge Durrell (née Wilson) (born September 7, 1949) is an American naturalist, author, zookeeper and television presenter, best known for her work at the Jersey Zoological Park in the British Channel Island of Jersey with her late husband Gerald Durrell, and for co-authoring books with him.

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Leslie Caron

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a Franco-American actress and dancer who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003.

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London Evening Standard

The London Evening Standard (or simply Evening Standard) is a local, free daily newspaper, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format in London.

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Louisa Durrell

Louisa Florence Durrell, born Louisa Florence Dixie (16 January 1886 – 24 January 1964), was an Anglo-Irish woman born in India during the British Raj.

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Margaret Durrell

Margaret "Margo" Isabel Mabel Durrell (4 May 1920 — 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu Trilogy of novels: My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods.

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Milo Parker

Milo Parker (born 2002) is a British child actor, known for his roles as Connor in Robot Overlords, Roger Munro in Mr. Holmes, Hugh Apiston in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Gerry Durrell in ITV’s The Durrells.

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My Family and Other Animals

My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical work by British naturalist Gerald Durrell.

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My Family and Other Animals (film)

My Family and Other Animals is a 2005 television film written by Simon Nye and directed by Sheree Folkson.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Prime (New Zealand TV channel)

Prime is the second privately owned national free-to-air television broadcaster currently available in New Zealand.

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Radio Times

Radio Times is a British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine.

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Ruth Barrett

Ruth Barrett is a British music composer.

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Seven Network

The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.

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Simon Nye

Simon Nye (born 29 July 1958 in Burgess Hill, Sussex) is an English comic television writer, best known for creating the hit sitcom Men Behaving Badly, writing all of the four ITV Pantos, co-writing the 2006 film Flushed Away, co-writing Reggie Perrin and creating the latest adaption of the Just William in the same-name CBBC series of 2010.

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Steve Barron

Steven Barron (born 4 May 1956) is an Irish film director, film producer, writer, and music video director.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Garden of the Gods

The Garden of the Gods (American title: Fauna and Family) (1978) by British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) is the third book in his autobiographical "Corfu trilogy," following My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts, and Relatives.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Sun (United Kingdom)

The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

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Theodore Stephanides

Theodore Stephanides (21 January 1896 - 13 April 1983) was a Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist.

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TV Tonight

TV Tonight is an Australian-based website which features reviews, news and programming information related to television in Australia as well as OzTAM ratings information.

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1080i

1080i (also known as Full HD or BT.709) is an abbreviation referring to a combination of frame resolution and scan type, used in high-definition television (HDTV) and high-definition video.

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16:9

16:9 (1.7:1) (16:9.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Durrells

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