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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Ridley continues to go hard on the jazzy aspect of the show, with an opening murder set to the background music playing at my local Starbucks this morning. That melds so gently into the opening credits I forgot to hit the "Skip Intro" button. Not to worry, there&
Vienna Blood
After a six-month delay, Vienna Blood has finally been commissioned for Season 4 by Austria and German public TV stations ORF and ZRF. The series has struggled to establish itself as a hit with American viewers on PBS. It initially debuted in the 10 p.m. ET slot in
BritBox
Co-commissioned by the BBC and BritBox International, Beyond Paradise is the second super successful spinoff of a long-running, already-popular mystery brand, Death In Paradise. The first success story, Sister Boniface Mysteries (a spinoff of Father Brown), recently announced filming had commenced on Season 3. Now filming has
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Almost a decade ago, the good Reverend Sidney Chambers (James Norton) was assigned to the vicarage of Grantchester, where he became BFFs with the local detective inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green) and had three seasons of a will-they-or-wont-they romance with the posh Amanda Kendall (Morven Christie)
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The beginning of July means a Fourth of July holiday weekend for most Americans, as barbeques fire up, fireworks light the sky, and families head to the beach. Once upon a time, this was the sleepy season for TV, as viewers left their TV sets behind on vacations. But tablets,
Doc Martin
Doc Martin's ten-season run only just concluded in December of 2022, nearly two decades after its 2004 premiere. The series was on the air for so long that it outlasted one of my marriages and four of my cats; the last time it was on PBS (in
Paramount+
Forget worrying about The Time Traveler's Wife, stuck home alone on the slow path. Paramount+ has a much better idea, greenlighting The Serial Killer's Wife for its U.K. production slate. Loosely based on the 2021 debut novel by Alice Hunter, the thriller is yet another
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Most series that focus on Ireland, especially the U.K.'s section of Northern Ireland, either tell stories about "The Troubles," whether a period piece or a contemporary set story, or they tend to be mysteries about serial killers. (Sometimes, like in the case of Bloodlands, it&
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The world may have changed drastically since 2014, but a few things will always be true: Death, Taxes, and Endeavour's finale being followed by Grantchester's debut on Sunday nights on PBS in July. However, this will be the last year of that truth, as Endeavour'
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All Creatures Great & Small began filming Season 4 in March 2023, but spoilers about the new season have been held tightly under wraps. Viewers knew Season 3 ended with Tristan heading off to war and James chomping at the bit to join him. While most could guess from history
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On paper, Ridley seemed like a show already a home run before it debuted. The series stars Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar as the titular Alex Ridley, a retired detective whose former protege, DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh), brings him back in a consulting role to help solve
MaryLand
Two projects by the name of Maryland were announced in 2022, a BBC film and an ITV series. The former, written by Lucy Kirkwood, was based on Kirkwood’s 2021 theatrical production and starred Hayley Squires (Call the Midwife) and Zawe Ashton (Mr. Malcolm’s List) as two women named