Entertainment

It should come as no surprise to hear that a British television show is being remade for a U.S. audience. Remember “The Office”? The British version featured co-creator Ricky Gervais as the manager of a branch at a paper company, while the U.S. version gave that role to Steve Carell. Imagine how different the American show would have been if Gervais filled those shoes again.
That’s what’s happening with “Gracepoint,” the U.S. remake of the British crime drama, “Broadchurch.” David Tennant stars in both shows as a detective investigating the death of a young boy in a quiet seaside town.

Imagine you’re at a train station and you see someone who looks exactly like you commit suicide by jumping in front of the oncoming train. What would you do? Go to Ancestry.com and start tracing your family tree?
Con artist Sarah Manning decides to impersonate her dead doppelganger in an attempt to drain her bank account, and quickly realizes she’s stolen the identity of a cop. That event kicks off “Orphan Black,” a conspiracy-filled television series that just entered its second season on BBC America.

I come from a generation comfortably acquainted with the “Give Peace a Chance” era of John Lennon, a perennial figure in any college dorm. For this reason, it came as a shock to watch the international beacon of peace curse his mother and ditch school regularly as a youth. Yet both these images surface in director Sam Taylor-Wood’s 2009 biopic “Nowhere Boy,” which chronicles the formative years of the young and troubled John Lennon.

Amusement parks have a special place for illustrator Lane Smith. While he studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, he paid his bills by working as a janitor at Disneyland. Each day after class, he put on the white suit and took his pan and broom and shot the breeze with the balloon vendor until the park closed. He swept the Haunted Mansion, dodging motion-activated spooks as he reached for soda bottles that had rolled beyond his reach. Smith thinks that the nights he spent alone in the park played a role in the formation of his otherworldly aesthetic.