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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Holiday creep has been an issue for decades, with Halloween decor coming out before the summer is over and Christmas stuff arriving just as one is shopping for back-to-school supplies. It's also taken over TV; networks that make all their ratings on Holiday movies typically debut their first
Paramount+
When Paramount+ initially announced ambitious plans to put 50 international titles into production by the end of 2022, it surprised streaming service experts, for whom the service was badly late and awkwardly managed. The lateness wasn't the service's fault, as parent companies CBS and Viacom struggled
BritBox
ITV's The Tower, based on the Kate London mystery novels featuring her detective DS Sarah Collins, is officially coming back for a third season after the success of The Tower II: Death Message. The new season, The Tower 3: Gallowstree Lane, named after London's third novel,
PBS
Van der Valk skipped a year between Seasons 1 and 2 due to pandemic-induced filming delays, airing in September 2020 and September 2022, respectively. However, Season 3 will have no such difficulties, with new episodes arriving right on time for September 2023. The series is even bumping its usual premiere
The Long Shadow
ITV has just announced a brand new series, The Long Shadow, which has already been cast, filmed, and completed, coming to its network and streaming on ITVX for autumn 2023. The true crime drama is based on the real story of the hunt for "The Yorkshire Ripper," serial
Movies
Emerald Fennell was best known to PBS viewers as Nurse Patsy Mount from Call The Midwife, joining the series in Season 3 and exiting three years later, and for her turn in The Crown as Camilla Parker, the woman Charles came to regret not marrying instead of Diana. But for
PBS
The Ridley cold open features Ridley fast asleep on the couch, dreaming the house is on fire. It was only a dream; the man responsible for the fire, Michael Flannery, is locked up, unable to see his mother in her final hours. It's too late now; she'
Netflix
Netflix is no longer the go-to one-shop-stop for British content on streaming the way it was a decade ago. U.K. imports are now found everywhere, from Hulu and Amazon following Netflix's example, the launches of BritBox, the acquisition of Acorn TV by AMC Networks, PBS Passport becoming
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When Morse, based on the popular Colin Dexter books, initially premiered in 1987 on ITV with John Thaw as the titular inspector, it was probably just seen as yet another contemporary police procedural in a landscape filled with them. However, the series turned out to be a massive turning point.
Sundance Now
The Pact's first season initially debuted on BBC One in the spring of 2021. The six-part thriller series was billed as "Welsh Big Little Lies" at the time of its debut by critics, with Julie Hesmondhalgh (The Trouble with Maggie Cole), Laura Fraser (Traces), Eiry Thomas
Paramount+
For those who grew up in Ireland in the mid-20th century, the stories of the Magdelene Laundries were things whispered about, terrifying accounts of what happened to girls who weren't virtuous or at least very careful. But in 1993, with the uncovering of a mass of unmarked graves
Apple TV
Apple TV+ first announced it had picked up Fingernails, a British science fiction film starring Jessie Buckley (The Woman in White) and Riz Ahmed (The Night Of), back in May 2022 off the Cannes Film Festival market. Since then, there's not been much news other than a few