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.
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Amazon originally greenlit The Rig, a supernatural thriller, back in the doldrums of the 2020 lockdowns. At the time, it was the first commissioned series planned to be filmed entirely in Scotland, with Amazon utilizing the brand new FirstStage Studios, a film and TV studio space in Edinburgh which had
MGM+
Since announcing its first slate of four originals in 2020, BritBox UK has undergone significant changes, not the least of which was the BBC leaving the British side of the enterprise after ITV moved it under its streaming service, ITVX. The fate of the titles BritBox was producing varied: Magpie
Now Stream This
It's the end of 2022, and the holidays are in full swing in most places, from Christmas carols in shops to emails blanketing your inbox with gift-giving ideas. Streaming services are also getting in on the act, with Christmas movies and specials all heading this way for
BritBox
BritBox has several high-profile projects heading to streaming for 2023, from the Cary Grant biopic Archie to the Death in Paradise spinoff Beyond Paradise. But one of the streaming service’s most significant gets is landing the new historical drama from Sir Lenny Henry, partly based on the oral
PBS
The holidays are officially here, with Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday all inundating our inboxes. With the significant holidays spread across the December landscape, it's the time of year when everyone gets into the Very Special Episode action. Marathons of Christmas-themed editions
Shetland
Changing leads midstream is not unusual for long-running police procedures; it’s just a matter of figuring out how to incorporate it. It’s why shows like Grantchester aren’t called “The Sidney Chambers Mysteries” or the Chief Inspector Ganache adaptation will be called the Three Pines series because
Call the Midwife
Call The Midwife has been a staple of the BBC and PBS since its debut a decade ago in 2012, as is the series' yearly Christmas special. The series' U.K. premiere, which traditionally occurs in January, comes close enough on the heels of the late December holiday
Movies
Some actors become famous for being miscast by a well-meaning director: Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, for instance, or Benedict Cumberbatch in anything that requires an American accent. Then some actors miscast themselves in vanity projects, (Once again, Kevin Costner comes to mind, as does anything
Luther
It's been a long decade since Luther was first released in 2010. The police procedural starring Idris Elba was what took his career from "the guy on HBO's The Wire" to a household name. The Neil Cross series, which co-starred Ruth Wilson as
The Great British Baking Show
The Great British Baking Show's success in America sometimes feels like something that happened despite everyone's best efforts, not because of it. PBS brought the show over five seasons into its run, proceeded to air everything out of order, and never attempted to keep it in
PBS
Van der Valk is looking to change things up. The show, which is a reboot of the 1970s/1990s series, stuck somewhat close to the original series in its cast of characters, starting with Commissaris Piet van der Valk (Marc Warren). Hoofd-commissaris Halsbeek was gender-flipped to Inspecteur Lucienne
Eurovision
Eurovision 2023 is going to be one of the history books. The 2022 contest winner, Ukraine, will not be hosting in the home country due to the continuing attacks by Russia. Instead, the contest will be held in the runner-up country, the U.K., in Liverpool, as a joint