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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As those who read our roundups every month will have noted, most streaming services are investing in the British imports and co-productions game as part of filling out their coffers. But there's one glaring exception: The Walt Disney Company. Though the monolithic entertainment company has a far reach,
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There was a time when time travel and interwoven out-of-sequence storytelling spanning decades was the province of science fiction, dominated by series such as Doctor Who and Star Trek. But with the rise of prestige TV and in media res openings, twisted timelines have become almost de rigueur, from broadcast
Mystery
It wasn't even a year ago that BritBox announced the cast for the Father Brown spinoff, The Sister Boniface Mysteries. The streaming service originally ordered the show in the weeks before the March 2020 shutdown ground filming in the U.K. to a halt. Fans knew the series
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When The Gilded Age debuted on HBO in January 2022, it wasn't clear how well the new series would do. Like the upcoming House of the Dragon, this was a spinoff prequel to a beloved hit from a decade back. Although Carnival Films initially announced the series in
Downton Abbey
Even though Downton Abbey: A New Era has moved from mid-March to mid-May, fans are still super excited for a return to the House of Grantham. The fact that a sequel happened this fast in itself was miraculous enough; it seemed almost impossible that more Downton Abbey would arrive in
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There was a time when BBC America was the leading purveyor of BBC series in America, the only other source to watch U.K. shows that wasn't PBS. But streaming changed that reality, as Netflix and Amazon brought shows over in bulk, using budgets that dwarfed the basic
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March is going to be a bonanza for fans of period TV series. On March 20, Sanditon Season 2 arrives on PBS, along with Call The Midwife Season 11. On March 21, The Gilded Age will premiere its Season 1 finale on HBO, followed by streaming on HBO Max. And
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Vienna Blood has leaned heavily into the Liebermans' Jewishness, so opening with Catholic iconography and Gregorian chant is a choice. It's due to a lecture organized by Herr Strobl (Serge Falck), and Professor Priel (David Oberkogler) attended by Mendel, Max, and Amelia, featuring Brother Stanislav (Lukas Watzl)
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BritBox's announcement of Hugh Laurie's adaptation of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? last year marked the production studio's most prominent, most expensive original to date, and the first clip looks spectacular. If the company's response is any indication, it seems
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As the TV year takes shape, it's time for several series from across the pond that weren't cross-pond co-productions to find homes on American broadcast and streaming. The latest pair is The Suspect and Showtrial, a couple of titles from ITV Studios, which will come over
Mystery
It's been nearly a year since the announcement first came that Monumental Television, the UK producer best known for Harlots and Ghosts, had picked up the rights to adapt ML Longworth's Verlaque & Bonnet mysteries. The ten-books-and-counting series, set in Aix-en-Provence, features Antoine Verlaque, the charming
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When Normal People, based on the 2018 novel by Sally Rooney, became a hit on both sides of the pond on BBC Three and Hulu, it was as much a surprise to critics as it was to audiences. The Irish romantic drama between Marianne Sheridan (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell Waldron