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.
Paramount+/Showtime
Last week's episode of The Woman in the Wall ended with the genuinely shocking discovery that Lorna's putting Aoife Cassidy in the wall of her flat at the end of the premiere never happened, or if it did, someone removed the body. Either way, the woman
FX
Head of FX John Landgraf, known as "The Mayor of Television," declared 2024 to be the conclusion of "Peak TV," with the first official downturn in the number of shows produced a year since 2013 when the streaming revolution began. However, the number of shows may
Disney/Hulu
Disney+ announced it was boarding the forthcoming adaptation of C.J. Sansom's Shardlake novels from All3Media's The Forge in January 2023. Set during the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century, these historical mystery novels star a hunchbacked lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, whose first case is
Movies
All of Us Strangers was one of the best British films to be released in 2023, at least according to our film reviewer Rory Doherty here at Telly Visions. A romantic fantasy ghost story, the film stars Andrew Scott (Ripley) and Paul Mescal (Normal People) as a couple that meets
Disney/Hulu
Candice Carty-Williams' Champion arrived on Netflix in January with little marketing and has since been a sleeper hit thanks to the streaming service's algorithm and word-of-mouth. Now her second series, but her first hit from across the pond, Queenie, is heading to the small
FX
While FX and Hulu technically are considered different entities under the Disney umbrella of entertainment brands, FX’s lack of stand-alone streaming service means audiences tend to mentally mix the two together. Disney’s own choice to pair them at the Television Critics Association winter press tour probably doesn’
Netflix
Since becoming Netflix's first breakout star in Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown has been steering her own career to play the type of heroine she wants to see on the screen. While that is not as rare as one might think for women in the industry, especially for
Netflix
Patricia Highsmith published The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1955, almost 75 years ago, and ever since, the handsome grifter and his mark Dickie Greenleaf, and the woman trying to stop him, Marge Sherwood, has captured the imaginations of generations. The most famous adaptation, the 1999 film starring Matt Damon as
Netflix
Netflix is going back to the bookshelf for more Harlan Coben novels to adapt. The streaming service has been doing adaptations of the Coben novels since 2016, with a commitment to produce multiple adaptations since 2018. Though the author's novels are set in America, and the author himself
Netflix
Created and written by The Lazarus Project's Joe Barton, Black Doves was initially announced in April 2023 with Keira Knightley attached as lead. However, it wasn't until Netflix was getting ready to release the final episodes of The Crown in November 2023 that filming commenced and
Netflix
Netflix first announced it had secured the rights to make a television adaptation of Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q mystery novel just under a year ago, in April 2023, along with a slew of other U.K.-based projects at the time. Unlike some other projects announced
BritBox
With the success of Why Didn't They Ask Evans and Murder Is Easy, the BBC and BritBox are wasting no time announcing their next co-production of an Agatha Christie miniseries. The next book to get the 21st century updated treatment will be the 1944 novel Towards Zero,