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.
PBS
News arrived bright and early in June 2023 that Masterpiece is again teaming up with BBC Studuio’s UKTV to co-commission its latest series, an adaptation of Robert Thorogood’s novel The Marlow Murder Club. This is the third co-commission from this team-up, the others being two
BBC
The U.K. is big into Christian holidays, despite not being a very religious country. Christmas specials (which have in recent years started to be referred to as "Festive specials") are a staple of the end of the year on the BBC, with ITV and Channel 4 following
Movies
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is currently struggling on with filming during the writer's strike, having already experienced massive delays in filming Season 1, and on the hook for a mandatory Season 2 no matter how the first eight episodes did or the price tag.
Now Stream This
June is finally here, and with it, hot days, warm nights, vacations, and a closing of Emmy nominations voting. That last factor brings a modicum of chill to the TV landscape as the prestige titles and debuts (which may or may not deserve that moniker) give way to the regularly
BritBox
Like many series that premiered in the glut of 2020-2021, Grace was initially overlooked by American audiences when it first arrived. The series, starring John Simm (Life on Mars) as DSI Roy Grace, was based on the Roy Grace books written by novelist Peter James, with Russell Lewis — the
PBS
Winter is PBS' season of period dramas, with the likes of All Creatures Great & Small, Miss Scarlet & The Duke, and Vienna Blood to warm viewers' hearts during the cold nights. Conversely, the summer is a time for mysteries and thrillers; since 2015, PBS has traded off
Sundance Now
The Dry was one of those shows initially picked up by ITV for BritBox UK as a series but not for BritBox U.S. (It debuted here on Sundance Now and AMC+.) The series, written by Nancy Harris, was developed from Element for RTÉ One and funded by the Broadcasting
Acorn TV
The "cozy crime" mystery series is one of British TV's most popular genres. Police procedurals, in general, have been popular since back in the radio days, but sometimes it feels like BritBox and Acorn TV are stuffed so full of them it's hard to
Netflix
Succession is a borderline Britsh series, written by Brits and starring Brian Cox and Matthew MacFadyen, but also a bunch of Americans and produced by HBO. However, it also has a secret Australian in the mix, Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv Roy. Snook's performance as the only daughter
Citadel
Citadel, Amazon's first major global series for flagship streaming service Prime Video, was not the critical hit the parent company hoped for when it debuted at the end of April, landing a 54% splat from critics. (Our own Rory Doherty called the show an afterthought to the more
The Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time is turning again at Amazon's Prime Video. The series, based on Robert Jordan's 14-tome epic fantasy series, is the *other* significant property acquired by Amazon's Jeff Bezos for Prime Video to adapt back in the mid-aughts, right around
Apple TV
Hijack's first trailer is here, and it is demanding your attention. The first series from Apple TV+ to be told in a real-time format over seven one-hour episodes is anchored by action star Idris Elba in his first major role as a problem-solving badass since