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.
Peacock
Eddie Redmayne is going from witchcraft and wizardry to spycraft and assassinations as he boards the first-ever TV adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s novel The Day of the Jackal. The book, published in 1971, was well received by critics and took home the Edward Award in 1972; a film adaptation
HBO & HBO Max
After spending Season 1 lost in the Australian Outback (in more ways than one), Jamie Dornan (Belfast) and Danielle Macdonald (Dumplin') will relocate for The Tourist's second season. The BBC announced the new season began filming in April 2023, but not down under as audiences had anticipated.
BritBox
BritBox is going all in on going behind the scenes with British acting royalty. First, it released An Interview with Brian Cox, timed perfectly to coincide with the actor's exit from HBO's series Succession, which turned him into a 21st-century household name. Now it's
Disney/Hulu
While Disney+ in the U.S. continues to be the home of Marvel and Star Wars series (and sometimes it seems precious little else), outside of its American home base, the streaming service has been going full bore on commissioning new series of all stripes: Welcome to Wrexham, A Thousand
Movies
If it's springtime, it's production season, as filming for next year's crop of TV series and movies gets underway. This is also the point in the calendar when studios start hopping aboard indie projects as events like the Cannes Market and the spring edition
Apple TV
Slow Horses will add several new faces to the cast when it returns for Season 4. No, that's not a typo; I said Season 4, even though Season 2 only aired in December 2022, and Season 3 does not yet have a release date to stream on Apple
HBO & HBO Max
As noted for a year now, Discovery Networks' merger with Warner Brothers was a significant move in the streaming wars. HBO Max, the poorly named rush job of an inclusive streamer designed to compete with Disney+ and Netflix, was now under the eye of the company which launched Discovery+
BritBox
The Death In Paradise spinoff Beyond Paradise officially got the sign the BBC considers it a significant success. The series, which stars Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton reprising their DIP characters DI Humphrey Goodman and Martha Lloyd, moved the action from the Island Paradise of St. Marie to the hometown
BritBox
BBC One’s prison-set series Time was initially set as a one-off, closed-ended limited series starring Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) as the newly imprisoned Mark Cobden and Stephen Graham (This Is England) as Prison Officer Eric McNally. Written by Jimmy McGovern (Accused), the series was written for those two
BritBox
Brian Cox (the Scottish actor, not the Scottish astrophysicist) has worked on stage and TV since the early 1960s. A classically trained Shakespearean performer, he has multiple accolades, including Oliviers, Emmys, Golden Globes, Screen Actor Guild awards, not to mention an Order of the British Empire. However, the current role
Peacock
Period pieces, especially those set in Roman and Greek antiquity, tend to lean hard into British culture instead of knowing what those cultures were genuinely like. From I Claudius to Alexander The Great, sword and sandal shows and movies are angled to Anglophiles, including current shows like Domina on MGM+
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
David Attenborough's Frozen Planet II only just finished airing on BBC America in March, but there's already another Attenborough series on the way for April and Earth Day 2023. His latest special, Wild Isles, which aired on BBC One in February 2023 (though not without some