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
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
BritBox
Renewing a show initially planned as a limited, closed-ended series can be risky, but for Jimmy McGovern’s Time, it took what was a one-hit wonder and turned it into a tour-de-force series. Season 1, released in 2021, starred Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) as the
AMC/AMC+
Most streaming services are pretty straightforward. Download the app, find all the shows in one place, and watch. A few are a little more complex — Disney, for instance, has been prevented from putting Hulu under its main banner, Disney+, due to a longstanding deal where Comcast still owned a third
Netflix
Before we get into Desserts Week heading into next week's Quarter Finals, we need to stop and discuss the state of The Great British Baking Show. The series is now on Season 14, and it is as popular as ever, both in the U.K. and in the
Apple TV
Christmas creep is a real phenomenon, but once Halloween passes, the Holiday special announcements start piling up to the point that covering them requires one to admit that the most wonderful time of the year is coming, whether we like it or not. Part of this is simply due to
PBS
The Great British Baking Show may have managed to stay popular despite moving to Netflix and changing out judges to Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. However, fans wistfully sigh for OG judge Mary Berry when the series returns every year and ask what she's up to. The answer
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare died at 52 in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 1616 and was buried two days later. His career spanned merely 28 years (give or take), and of his writings, 19 plays had been published in various states of completion during his life. Considering that today, he is credited
PBS
Miss Scarlet and the Duke did back-to-back seasons in 2022/2023 due to the funky renewal and filming delays of the pandemic and a desire by PBS' Masterpiece, which took over as lead producer, to get episodes out to fans. However, the resulting year off between the
Apple TV
With less than a month until Slow Horses Season 3 arrives on Apple TV+, the trailer for the new season has finally arrived. Based on the popular series of spy novels by Mick Herron, the series follows the story of a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who’ve all
Netflix
Anyone worried that The Crown’s final season would signal the end of Netflix making prestige British series with absolutely A-list level casts can breathe a little easier with the announcement of Black Doves, the streaming service’s forthcoming spy thriller out of the U.K. Initially announced in