Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

This finale is intense, and entirely unprecedented and unexpected. It provides a moral summation of the entire show, and everything that came before can be fitted in, both plotwise and in terms of the message. 

No one believes the 18-year-old Victoria can be Queen without help: not the bewhiskered statesmen of Parliament nor her mother and her friends. Only Lord Melbourne supports Victoria's independence. And she's going to fight for it.

Photos from the finale of Sherlock season 4 reveal nothing, but "The Final Problem" is sure to be an explosive episode. 

Get a taste of the seventeenth season with recipes for Sticky Buns, Cast Iron Steak, Red Lentil Soup, and Korean Fried Chicken Wings.

Are you the fresh-faced "A Study in Pink," or the sexy "Scandal in Belgravia?" Do you seek secret agent thrills like "The Six Thatchers" or do you prefer cheery conversation like "The Sign of Three?" 

It’s all in the title, folks. Don’t ever trust anything Sherlock does or says. The latest episode of Sherlock may as well be a soap opera, with its crazy media star, a cocaine habit, an estranged evil sibling, a ghost of a deceased character, and a near-suicide.

The Judy Istock Butterfly Haven houses roughly 1,000 butterflies of over forty different species from around the globe at any one time. Doug Taron manages them all.

How much do the actors on Victoria look like the historical figures they portray? Learn about the real people depicted on the show as you compare the character with the actor. 

Cultural depictions of powerful historical women currently reign large, just as the United States came very close to electing its first female president. Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, and Jackie Kennedy can all be seen on screen now.

On January 13, Great Performances broadcasts 'Bel Canto' the opera from Lyric Opera of Chicago, which gave the world premiere in December 2015.

The first episode of Season 4 of Sherlock features a significant birth and a shocking death, as well as some secret agent-style thrills. Oh, and we still don't know what's up with Moriarty.

The Chicago Public Library was founded in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire with an inventory of books donated from England and other countries. 

Fans have concocted brilliant (or nutty) theories about season 4 of Sherlock worthy of the detective's own deductions. 

Season 4 of Sherlock is the darkest yet. Will Moriarty return? Will Mary confront her past? Will Sherlock succumb once again to drugs? Most importantly, will this be the final season?

Richard III contains some of Shakespeare's most vicious invective. You can watch the curses fly in the Great Performances broadcast of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.