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.
Apple TV
As the Venice International Film Festival winds down across the pond, the Toronto International Film Festival opens to the north. Known as TIFF, the festival is expected to debut some highly anticipated U.K. productions, including One Life, a clear Oscar bait contender biopic of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, famous
The Tourist
When the BBC announced filming had commenced for The Tourist's second season, it came with a surprise relocation. The first season was set in the outback, with Jamie Dornan (Belfast) as a person referred to only as "The Man," with no memory of who he was
Disney/Hulu
Disney+ has been commissioning overseas series for the U.K. and other countries since it launched the streaming service internationally. Though the bulk of its productions seem to be based out of London, there are some Australian original series floating about. Like the U.K. series, these won't
PBS
Masterpiece has released the first images from The Marlow Murder Club, its latest co-commission with UKTV. The series is an adaptation of author Robert Thorogood’s best-selling novels; he is best known as the series creator of Death in Paradise, which has been a smashing success since its
Sundance Now
Sundance Now has picked up the upcoming true-crime thriller The Vanishing Triangle just in time for Spooky Season. The six-part mystery series stars Downton Abbey fan-favorite Allen Leech as DCI David Burke, one half of the fictionalized investigative team who will guide viewers on a journey through
Netflix
Netflix is doing the release date shuffle as the final months of 2023 roll in and the strike rolls on. However, unlike most production studios, which are starting to shuffle release dates back as the production shutdowns drag on, Netflix is moving some stuff forward as if to show off
PBS
When Unforgotten Season 4 premiered in 2021, it had been nearly three years since the series last aired on PBS. Thankfully, fans didn't have to wait quite as long for Season 5, but it has been a while since the surprise passing of Cassie Stuart and the exit
Now Stream This
Welcome back to autumn and the traditional kick-off to the television season. Don't let people tell you that streaming has won that war and made the television season a year-round event; our lists say otherwise. For the first time since May 2023, nearly every major streaming
PBS
The lazy days of summer are over, and the PBS TV season begins in earnest as September rolls in. Though the once-vaunted September-May TV calendar year was supposedly left for dead with the advent of the streaming revolution, PBS is still, at its heart, an over-the-air,
Van der Valk
Van der Valk debuted in the 1970s, starring Barry Foster (Frenzy) as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk. The series, which first aired in 1972, was a massive hit in the U.K. and was brought back in 1977, featuring a completely different cast with the sole exception
Ridley
When Ridley was initially announced in 2021, it was pretty apparent that ITV was aiming to land itself a new long-lived detective series, the kind that could easily run ten seasons until it achieved the sort of ubiquitous status of a Vera or a Father Brown. To that end,
BritBox
BritBox has scooped up two series for Fall 2023. One is The Sixth Commandment, a critically-acclaimed hit from the BBC; the other, This England, is a highly-anticipated title heading to Sky UK. Both come headlined by some of the biggest names in British acting, with Timothy Spall (Spencer)