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Small Screen: Third season of PBS Masterpiece’s Victoria starts in January

You have questions. I have some answers. Q: I have watched seasons 1 and 2 of Masters of Sex, available on DVD at my library. However, I have not been able to find the remaining two seasons.
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Jenna Coleman is Queen Victoria and Tom Hughes is Prince Albert in the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria. The third season begins on Jan. 13, 2019.

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: I have watched seasons 1 and 2 of Masters of Sex, available on DVD at my library. However, I have not been able to find the remaining two seasons. Will they be released on DVD any time soon?

A: On Tuesday, Mill Creek Entertainment released a complete-series set of the Showtime series on DVD and on Blu-ray. That included all four seasons, which aired from 2013 to 2016, with Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan starring. However, Mill Creek does not have any plans right now to release seasons 3 and 4 in single-season sets. Those seasons are available digitally on iTunes and Amazon.

Q: I hope you can help me find out about A Place to Call Home. It is my favourite. Is it coming back?

A: Yes. But let me venture into the brambles of ownership to explain where to find it. Acorn Media Enterprises has the rights to the Australian drama in the U.S. It has let the first four seasons be distributed by American Public Television to individual stations; those seasons are also on Netflix. Acorn has put the fifth season on its Acorn TV, a subscription streaming service specializing in overseas programs. Acorn has not yet decided when it will make the fifth season available to broadcasters. And there’s a sixth and final season, which will begin airing on Acorn TV on Aug. 31. Two episodes will be available on that date, with weekly episodes following from Sept. 10 to Oct. 29.

Q: Will there be more of The Alienist?

A: People have kept asking about that TNT drama, based on the novel by Caleb Carr, and I am happy to say that a follow-up is coming. TNT not long ago ordered a limited series, Angel of Darkness, based on Carr’s print sequel to his Alienist novel. Reprising their roles from the first series will be Daniel Bruhl (as Laszlo Kreizler), Luke Evans (John Moore) and Dakota Fanning (Sara Howard).

Q: I read recently that Colony has been cancelled. Are there any plans for a movie to close out the series, or are the producers just going to leave us hanging like they have with other shows?

A: At this writing, the show ended with its third-season finale in July. There’s always a chance of resurrection, or some kind of closure, but I do not know of any right now.

Q: Will there be a third season of Victoria on PBS’s Masterpiece?

A: Yes. The new season will begin on Jan. 13, 2019, picking up the story of Queen Victoria (Jenna Coleman) and Prince Albert (Tom Hughes) in 1848. Series creator Daisy Goodwin has called that “a time when the whole of Europe is falling apart,” according to recent reports. It will also look at Victoria and Albert’s growing family and the possible effect on their sex life. “She has six children in eight years — which is a lot — and there are some gaps, so I wonder whether there may have been some withholding (of sex) on both sides,” Goodwin told Radio Times.

Q: Is there really anywhere in New York City with a lovely home and yard like the Reagan family home on Blue Bloods?

A: According to a Brooklyn Eagle report in 2017, the exterior of the Reagan home belongs to a house in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City; interiors are a studio set.