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.
Mystery
The first season of Annika wasn't the most sparkling of PBS' fall 2022 lineup, but it was a solid series, the kind of workhorse procedural that can run for years without losing the audience's interest. The combination of Nicola Walker (Unforgotten) as the titular Annika
Now Stream This
I was recently asked by someone why they could not just subscribe to one service in the U.S. and get all the British TV series and movies that cross the pond in one place. And while that may yet happen, as the BBC retreats and regroups for a new
Doctor Who
The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary special (or trio of specials) is almost a full year out, and we know a lot about them. Since the BBC revealed Russell T. Davies was returning to the series as showrunner since leaving in 2009, there's been a flurry of news. David
PBS
The phrase "Peak TV" was first coined in 2014 during a Television Critics Association panel with FX head John Landgraff. He used the term to refer to the growing slate of high-end TV shows. However, since then, the proliferation of streaming services and the gaping maw of content
HBO & HBO Max
As we say goodbye to the year 2022, TV for 2023 is already pounding at the door, shivering and stamping the snow off its boots, waiting to be let in. The good news is that next year will almost certainly not be quite as overwhelming, as the backlog of delayed
Luther
Luther originally debuted over a decade ago in 2010, though the first season didn't cross the pond until the following year on BBC America. Since then, the follow-up seasons have been sporadic. The series was enough of a hit for Idris Elba as the titular John Luther in
Disney/Hulu
Since Disney+ started getting into the international productions game, Hulu has been reaping the benefits. Disney owns both, but due to complications in Hulu's origin story, the two currently are separate services in the states. (That's not true in the U.K., where Hulu is known
BritBox
The truth-is-stranger-than-fiction 1970s-era tale of real-life Labour MP John Stonehouse, who attempted (and failed) to fake his death and restart life in Australia, is the perfect fodder for true crime TV. It has all the hallmarks of the genre: a husband who cheats on his wife abuses his power, gets
BritBox
American shows get rebooted, reimagined, and remade with alarming regularity since the beginning of the 21st century. It was only a matter of time before other countries caught on to the idea. Poldark and All Creatures Great and Small did it on PBS, and Father Brown also recently spun off
Apple TV
Most of the Christmas traditions we think of today as standards of the season were invented in the 1840s when the newly crowned Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, popularized his Germanic holiday standards. But, which the exception of A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker, most of the entertainment
BritBox
BritBox initially launched in 2017 on the back of having a complete catalog of British favorites that were, up until that point, only found haphazardly on streaming. Classic Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, the old Upstairs Downstairs, Inspector Morse, and the like. The service also attempted to appeal to British ex-pats
Frozen Planet
At 96 years old, U.K. national treasure David Attenborough has been making documentary specials about the natural world for 70+ years. Though one of his few British contemporaries still remaining, Queen Elizabeth finally passed in 2022 (she was all of a few weeks older), he's still going.