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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If Shakespeare defined the pop culture of the first Elizabethan era, then Charles Dickens did the same for the Victorian one. From A Christmas Carol, which synthesized Victoria and Albert's push to popularize a secularist Germanic tradition for the industrial age, to David Copperfield, a bildungsroman detailing Victorian
PBS
A decade ago, in 2013, Endeavour first crossed the pond for PBS viewers on Masterpiece. The series was the third in a line of mysteries based on the Inspector Morse series of novels by Colin Dexter, initially debuting in the 1980s and was Mystery!'s first successful non-period-set police
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Louise Candlish's Our House had barely won the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller Book of the Year when Red Planet Pictures (Death In Paradise) came calling, looking to adapt the best-selling "real estate thriller" for TV. ITV picked up the four-part series for a commission
Acorn TV
P.D. James' novels may not have the iconic status of Agatha Christie, but since she started writing in the late 1950s (and her Adam Dalgliesh novels took off in the early 1960s), her name has been grouped with other female mystery writers of U.K. fame, from Dorothy
Doctor Who
For Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary — the first to occur since the show was rebooted in 2005 — BBC One and BBC America went all out on broadcast to celebrate. A slate of documentaries aired under The Doctor Revisited, in which adventures from the First Doctor’s “The Aztecs” to the
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As a historical figure, Marie Antoinette is often held up as the epitome of wealth and privilege in a time when monarchies were rapidly losing their hold on power. Most school children learn of her as the uncaring ruler who seemed confused at the peasants having no bread, declaring, "
The Great British Baking Show
In what might be the best news the tent has seen since moving to Channel 4, Love Production announced the newest host joining The Great British Baking Show starting with Season 14 will be Alison Hammond. Hammond replaces Matt Lucas, who exited the tent after January’s 2023 New Year’
PBS Passport
PBS Passport is once again bringing members shows before they stream on linear. Season 1 of the British remake of Walter's Choice fan-favorite Before We Die (Innan vi Dör) debuted on most linear PBS stations in March 2022 alongside Call The Midwife and Sanditon Season 2. For 2023,
Doctor Who
Since his own Bad Wolf Productions announced Russell T. Davies would not only be returning as showrunner to the Doctor Who franchise but co-producing with the BBC, speculation has run wild about Davies' plans. As longtime Whovian fans know, Davies was ahead of his time when he took the
Sanditon
Sanditon's first season was a hit for PBS when it debuted in early 2020, but it came with a pair of disappointments baked in. The first was that the series, based on the unfinished Jane Austen novel, and written by Austen auteur Andrew Davies, had been canceled by
Comedy
British comedies, by and large, have been the province of white male writers. From Monty Python to The Outlaws, most hit comedies from across the pond haven't featured much in the way of diversity, and what little has made it over to American shores, like Starstruck (created by
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We're over half a century from the 1960s when there were only five major Hollywood studios, and audiences recognized them by name and filming brand. However, despite decades of entertainment realignment, a few remain: Disney instantly calls to mind princesses, for example, and Warner Bros., the home of