Ani Bundel has been blogging professionally since 2010. This is her second major independent site launch. A DC native and Keyboard Khaleesi, she spends all her non-writing time photographing her cats. Regular bylines also found on MSNOW.
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There is a slight irony to the way “Bread Week” has developed as part of The Great British Baking Show. Both “Cake Week” and “Bread Week” have been staples of the series since the very beginning. Biscuit Week now officially sits between them; however, there were several seasons where baking
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It is a truth that has not yet been universally acknowledged (but we're getting there) that the leaders of the U.S. and the U.K. governments are not always the brightest crayons in the box. Like most people who have the emotional wherewithal (and monetary means) to
BritBox
The 2020s began with a reckoning over shows that glorify law enforcement, but instead of changing the landscape, the five years that followed seem to have only doubled down on such things. There are more Law & Order shows than ever, and dozens of shows with alphabet soup levels of
Acorn TV
The seal has officially been broken over on Acorn TV. The most popular of American company AMC Networks' little federation of niche streamers, the originally UK-based service has been very careful since being purchased to stick to its mission of being a home of English language shows from countries
MGM+
In the Western Canon of Great Books, there are two stories by Charles Dickens that everyone has heard of, even if they've never even seen a copy in their lives. The first, A Christmas Carol, has gotten new adaptations almost every year since the turn of the century,
BritBox
BritBox's rise from the nichiest-niche afterthought of a streaming service to the destination for British programming has been a slow climb since it was first announced seven years ago. However, having made three successful standalone Agatha Christie miniseries in partnership with the BBC, the streaming service is now
Acorn TV
AMC Networks' little band of niche streaming services sometimes feels to me like The Little Engine That Could. Every time things seem to be going south again, someone digs deep and produces something far better than it has any right to be, like Interview with a Vampire on AMC+
PBS
The problem with Unforgotten is that it often tries to cram too many elements into any given case. That was the problem with that initial first season, it wasn't just the 1970s economic situation; it wasn't just a toxic marriage, or closeted gay man who made
PBS
When Call the Midwife first debuted back in 2012, it was one of the BBC's biggest out-of-the-box hits with audiences right from the jump. It was so popular, PBS jumped on board right away, bringing the first season across the pond before the end of the year. However,
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Biscuit week opens with no skit welcoming us to The Great British Baking Show, just a drone flyover of the small river that runs through Welford Park in Berkshire. I think this is the first time the show has used drones for casual filming shots, and for TV geeks like
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It took three seasons, but World War II is finally coming to an end in All Creatures Great & Small. After the Season 5 Christmas special closed out with the end of 1942, the show is hitting its first significant time jump and picking back up in mid-1945 for Season
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It’s been a year and a half since Netflix initially announced it had snapped up the rights to adapt Grown Ups, the best-selling novel by Irish writer Marian Keyes. Originally part of a blockbuster upcoming slate revealed in March 2024, Grown Ups was initially included in a line-up that