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.
This season of The Great British Baking Show has not been its best. The series has reached the point that it no longer can surprise on its terms. The days when Mel and Sue kept crying contestants off camera are long gone, and Prue's inability to stand up
PBS
Between the returns of Miss Scarlet and the Duke, All Creatures Great and Small, and Sanditon, 2023 looks like a good year for PBS viewers. But while some shows are being put out to pasture, like Endeavour, and some are getting new cast members, like Unforgotten, a few of the
Acorn TV
With mystery series Whitstable Pearl poised to return for a second season on Acorn TV, it's a good moment to check in on some of the streaming service's favorite whodunit to see if they are returning anytime soon. Murder In Provence, for example, has not been
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
British mystery series are some of the most popular shows among anglophiles, even if some of them, like, say, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries or Frankie Drake, are set in countries other than the U.K. Amazon Prime Video's latest, Three Pines, is in the same category
Netflix
Growing up, there were three truths about the holidays. Jo is right: Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, the Grinch's heart would grow three sizes, and Scrooge will go from asking, "Are there no workhouses?" to buying a turkey the size of Tiny
Mystery
Last week, Annika ended with both mother and daughter diving headfirst into relationships they're keeping on the down low from one another: Annika with Morgan's former therapist, Dr. Jake, and Morgan with Annika's coworker's sister Erin. This week continues the sneaking about
The Great British Baking Show
Netflix has a problem. Ever since the streaming service woke up one morning to find that the Walt Disney Company was terminating its contract to give Netflix exclusive first streaming rights — one that took years to hammer out and implement and had been in effect for all of a year
Netflix
Since choosing to continue with his commitment to The Time Traveler's Wife instead of returning as Sidney Parker for Sanditon's surprise second season, Theo James has been casting about for a new hit. He was seen as part of the main cast for the feature film
Paramount+
Amor Towles' novel A Gentleman in Moscow was primed to be a hit before it ever arrived on bookshelves. The first follow-up to his New York Times best-seller, Rules of Civility, the story of the fictional Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, tracing the fall of the Russian aristocracy, was out
BritBox
Since the one-two punch of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, British mysteries have been one of the U.K.'s most popular exports in the entertainment business. The genre is so popular that PBS's Masterpiece had to create a separate franchise branch, Mystery!, to cover them
Mystery
In a change of pace, Annika begins not with a treatise on classic literature but on bridges. It might be a heavy-handed metaphor for this week's episode, but the point remains that Annika can only name three kinds of bridges out of six. (Beam, arch, and suspension; sorry
Exclusive
Sophmore slump is a real phenomenon, but not for BBC's The Capture, which debuted its second season in the U.S. on streaming service Peacock on Nov. 3, 2022. Series creator and showrunner Ben Chanan, who wrote and directed all six episodes of the first season, comes back