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.
Netflix
In the before times, when The Great British Baking Show's producers were not quite aware of just how much its American audience was into the series, the show hewed to the British fall TV schedule, which kicks off over the final week of August, as the British do
PBS
There are many kinds of cases in police procedurals. There are serial murderers; there are one-off killings; there are cold cases; crooked cops commit crimes, you name 'em, there's a show about them. But of all the different kinds of detective stories, none are quite so
Netflix
My favorite thing about reality competition shows, not just The Great British Baking Show, but all of them, from the nationalist contests that spawned American Idol to the early years of Project Runway when it truly was The Greatest Show on Earth, is that every week is a new week,
BritBox
Making a hit television show is not an easy task, even when one is in possession of all the ingredients. A great cast, a concept that's already road-tested, scripts that already work, a production studio full of people who are experienced in what sells and how to
PBS
Since the premiere of Miss Scarlet & The Duke and All Creatures Great & Small back to back in the winter of 2021, PBS has tried to find a series that would cap off the cold January nights at 10 p.m. to fit the mood. Vienna Blood, a period
Disney/Hulu
Kat Sadler's Such Brave Girls was initially put to pilot back in 2021 at the BBC as a test to see if the writer, then best known as part of the team working on Mel Giedroyc's reality comedy Unforgivable, could handle her own show. The resulting
BritBox
In the current era of prestige TV, actors who are “secretly British” are everywhere. The forthcoming Masters of the Air, for example, is about WWII’s American Air Force’s Bloody Hundredth, but two-thirds of its stars hail from their British allies. Fans are so used to Undercover Brits
Apple TV
Apple TV+ has always had grand ambitions for its streaming service, and why shouldn't it? As one of the richest tech companies in the world, Apple has the money to spend on high-end dramas, if not always the best taste in what they should be. (Sorry to
Peacock
Peacock continues to try to figure out where it fits into the landscape of the streaming world. When NBC-Universal launched it in 2020, it was the last of the old-school "big four" broadcast networks to get into the market, and it attempted something different than everyone
Netflix
As the current most successful streaming service, Netflix has a lot of original programming and films to market to viewers over the year; a task made difficult by the sheer glut of entertainment and information that pours forth from the internet on a daily basis. Where once, something like a
PBS
Annika has always had daddy issues hovering in the background of the series since the series began, an odd choice considering it's a series centered around a female police detective and her daughter. But men aren't the only ones who have issues with their fathers, and
TNT/TBS
The Lazarus Project didn't have the most fortuitous start in the U.S. Originally scheduled to debut on cable channel TNT and then stream on HBO Max, it bumped off the calendar less than a week before it was initially scheduled to premiere in January 2023 due to