Televisionary | by Jace(jace@televisionaryblog.com) | Sun, Jun 14
Sun, Jun 14
Welcome to your Monday morning television briefing. ABC is developing a US adaptation of British hit comedy series Gavin and Stacey, about the romance between two very different lovers from two very different places (in the original it was Essex and Wales) who fall in love over the phone a...
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