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.
Acorn TV
Polish the silver and get out the vintage wine; The Chelsea Detective is about to return. Acorn TV's police procedural starring Adrian Scarborough (Sanditon) as DI Max Arnold, the detective inspector assigned to London's ritzy Chelsea neighborhood, has a premiere date for 2023, and it'
Netflix
A long time ago, in the 20th century, hijacking flights was not something that typically ended in tragedy. The 1970s and early 80s were littered with stories, which today sound bizarre, where random people hijacked flights, and then either disappeared or were arrested. That "hijacking as nuisance, not dangerous&
Now Stream This
The streaming revolution and peak TV were supposed to be the death knell of the September to May TV season. Viewers were no longer locked into a system that arbitrarily decided new shows began in the fall, took hiatuses over recent years, and ended in late spring. Sweeps weeks were
PBS
The ghost of Nicola Walker's Cassie Stuart was always going to hang heavy over Unforgotten's fifth season, as the series attempts to carry on after Stuart's death via a car crash. It also doesn't help that Walker already jumped to a new
BritBox
McDonald & Dodds has headed back into production for a fourth season. The odd-couple pairing mystery series, which unlike most, actually features two police officers, Tala Gouveia (Cold Feet) as DCI Lauren McDonald and Jason Watkins (The Crown) as DS Dodds, has been a sleeper mystery hit for ITV in
FX
FX's decision to hop on the reality train with Disney+ UK to produce Welcome to Wrexham is one of the more oddball decisions out of the streaming era, but not the worst one by far. Ted Lasso's sudden popularity in 2020 made the idea of Americans
PBS
Professor T already had multiple foreign language versions available when Walter Presents chose it as part of the first set of English language remakes for the newly minted Eagle Eye Drama. The original Belgian series ran three seasons from 2015-2018, starring Koen De Bouw as Jasper Teerlinck, aka Professor T.
BritBox
From the BBC's initial announcement of the Sherwood cast in 2022, it was pretty clear that James Graham's series about the titular northern red wall town would be special. An all-star lineup for a series that was nominally inspired by the true crime killings in Nottinghamshire
PBS
Usually, when there's a point in the calendar with new titles thin on the ground for PBS Passport, it's because seasons are mid-way through on linear. However, August 2023 is a bit of an outlier. With Masterpiece prepping for a 12-week, back-to-back one-two punch of Unforgotten/
Movies
The Venice Film Festival is the unofficial kickoff to awards season, where many of the fall and holiday-timed debuts first screen to build critical buzz. However, between the current SAG-AFTRA strike and the massive box office one-two punch of Barbinheimer, this year’s offerings may not land with the same
Our House
The title Our House for a certain generation will conjure up either 1960s sitcoms or old MTV videos and new wave Madness, but here in 2023, it's not in the middle of our street, but on PBS. The ITV "real estate thriller" series, based on Louise
PBS
Ridley starts at the jazz club again, but this time it's not Adrian Dunbar showing off his golden tones. Instead, it's Eve Marbury (two-time Olivier Award winner for musicals Carousel and My Fair Lady Joanna Riding) who kicks off this week's story by having