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.
The Great British Baking Show
It took a decade, but The Great British Baking Show finally revealed its limitations. "Mexican Week" was always going to be cringe-worthy; it was just a matter of how bad it would get. The answer, from the moment Matt and Noel showed up wearing serapes in the show&
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
Miss Scarlet and the Duke was one of PBS' biggest new debuts of the 2020s so far. The series is a perfect blend of British period piece, mystery-of-the-week, romantic comedy, and female-first programming. As a series spearheaded by Alibi, Masterpiece had to work extra hard to get it renewed
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Since Masterpiece announced in 2020 that it would adapt British author Anthony Horowitz's novel Magpie Murders to series, viewers have been anticipating having Lesley Manville as an amateur sleuth solving a mystery via the victim's novel. Little did they know it would come as part of
Mystery
Diamonds! They're a girl's best friend worth killing for. However, Van der Valk will get back to that voiceover. First, VDV and Haskell are at a bar where the cover band is playing "House of the Rising Sun," VDV shows off his newest acquisition:
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October has arrived and the leaves are starting to turn in earnest. Though the clocks won't fall back for a few weeks yet, the nights are getting longer and the days are getting colder. For those of you who are all over spooky season, now is the time
The Great British Baking Show
Since the pandemic began in 2020, The Great British Baking Show has struggled mightily to sally forth. As one of the few live competitions to find a way to record and broadcast during some of the worst periods via the "Bake Off Bubble," it was a beacon of
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Spooky season is a time for murder, mayhem, and blood, and since airing Grantchester and Baptiste back to back last year, Masterpiece has been getting in on the action. For 2022, the station is going all out on witches, killers, and death; oh my! Everything that's coming to
Mystery
Here at PBS, we've been touting Masterpiece's all-female detective lineup for fall, with Kate Phillips returning as Miss Scarlet, Nicola Walker from Unforgotten in Annika, where she played the titular detective, and Lesley Manville in the new series, Magpie Murders. But they aren't the
Drama
Netflix has been teasing its untitled spinoff prequel featuring Queen Charlotte since before the release of Bridgerton Season 2. Filming for the new series began shortly after Season 2's debut and wrapped not long after Season 3 officially went into production. Ahead of its yearly TUDUM event, the
Mystery
Van der Valk's new season begins with windmills; who doesn't love those, even if a dead woman hangs nearby, scarecrow style, as a bloody cheese slicer is washed. The series cuts to another woman, Juliana Holt (Saskia Neville), on a date with Rita Wyngarden (Liliana de
The Crown
With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, and the crowning of a new King, interest in Netflix's The Crown has shot through the roof. According to Nielsen's streaming ratings, the series shot to the top of everyone's queues, to the point that it outranked
Movies
Enola Holmes was a franchise Netflix accidentally stumbled into after Warner Bros. Pictures decided it wasn't worth holding onto until theaters reopened in 2020. As a franchise series of movies, it's perfect fare for Netflix, starring three of its biggest stars from three of its biggest