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.
ITV
J.P. Delaney’s The Girl Before may have gone mainly unnoticed on HBO Max due to a criminal lack of marketing, but it was a decent-sized hit for BBC One when it was released in December 2021. It was perfect for streaming television, a four-episode/four-lead
FX
The Australian-born British writer James Clavell was well-known in Hollywood for The Fly, The Great Escape, and To Sir, With Love before becoming a best-selling novelist for Shōgun in the 1970s. Perhaps the only surprising thing about his book being adapted in 1980 for the screen is
Netflix
Netflix continues to expand its Harlan Coben library of adaptations heading into 2024. Though the writer is American (he hails from New Jersey), his novels slide easily into the mold of U.K. crime thrillers, and since the streaming service signed an overall deal with his production company Final Twist
Acorn TV
Acorn TV is known for its British series like Bloodlands, Steeltown Murders, and Mrs. Sidhu Investigates. It also has quite a few popular French series as well, like Candice Renoir, Balthazar, and Missing Angel. But its most recent hits seem to combine the two, with Cannes Confidential, The Madame Blanc
BritBox
Father Brown is heading back to the airwaves to solve more crimes. The BBC announced today that Season 11 will debut in early January in the U.K., with the show arriving on BritBox only a couple of weeks later for American viewers. Based on the novels by G.K.
Netflix
It's been a few years since anyone heard anything about Steven Zaillian's planned TV adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Originally sold to Showtime pre-pandemic, during the height of the streaming scramble in September 2019, the series was
BritBox
We first reported on After The Flood back in February 2023, when Sophie Rundle (Gentleman Jack) first boarded the series as lead actor. It was Rundle's first time back in a police procedural since her turn in Happy Valley, and once again, her time as a cop was
Eurovision
With 2023 drawing to a close, plans for Eurovision 2024 are already underway. The 68th edition of the long-running musical contest will be held in Malmö after Sweden took home the win for the seventh time. The competition only confirmed this year's theme (it will remain "
BritBox
Some British shows get Christmas specials right out of the gate, a sign of just how strong the ratings are with the general public and the series' popularity. The Doctor Who reboot, for example, Call The Midwife, and All Creatures Great & Small all come to mind. Then there
Netflix
To the surprise of just about nobody, The Tourist is moving house for Season 2. The Jamie Dornan-starring BBC series debuted to such high numbers in the U.K. that it landed a Season 2 despite most of the cast being killed off in the finale. However, in America,
BritBox
Beyond Paradise may not be celebrating Christmas in the islands (unlike Death in Paradise, which also has a Holiday special set in the sun and the sand), but that doesn't mean the residents of Shipton Abbott, near the Devon coast, aren't going to make their own
PBS
While the actors' and writers' strikes here in the States have caused TV schedules to be delayed and, in some places, outright scrapped, those of us who are fans of British TV and PBS have been far more fortunate. As we noted at the time of the strikes,