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 Gilded Age
A new year, a new beginning for the streaming wars for our eyeballs. After two years of endless streaming services debuts, this is the first year where we might see the numbers dwindle as the mergers begin. But until that starts, there's a laundry list of places with
Culture
Even if March 2020 hadn't been the beginning of a new worldwide reality, the beginning of this decade was always going to see a mass shift in how content delivery worked in entertainment. November 2019 saw the launches of Apple TV+ and Disney+, 2020 had Quibi, HBO Max,
Culture
The past year in British entertainment has felt odd, especially for American viewers. The delayed lack of programming from 2020 hit over here in the first half of 2021, leaving us with nothing to watch, while the rush of content the second half of the year made it almost impossible
Sci-Fi
In its final season with Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor, Doctor Who has gone downright experimental. Season 13, known as Doctor Who: Flux, may have wound up a wild failure, but so are many experiments run on long-running series like this, and one cannot blame them for trying. With
Culture
After the 2020 Hollywood shutdown and U.K. lockdowns blew up filming on nearly everything worldwide, 2021 was never going to be normal, especially for PBS, whose anthology series Masterpiece and Walter's Choice are almost exclusively dependant on overseas imports by design. But the year wasn't
Comedy
When Amazon Studios announced it had renewed Good Omens for a second season, fans were thrilled and a touch on the perplexed side. The first season used up all the material from the novel, and while Neil Gaiman's other series based on a single book, American Gods, managed
Drama
It is tradition for HBO to drop a look ahead trailer for the year to come every December. For nearly a decade, this was one of the most highly anticipated teasers of the year because it usually held the first look at the new season of Game of Thrones. The
Drama
All Creatures Great & Small may be set in the pre-World War II era in the Yorkshire Dales, long before modern technology made the world interconnected. However, Season 2 of the escapist fantasy is looking more and more like the hottest ticket in town this winter. With new coronavirus variant
Drama
AMC+ is still part of the upstart set of services that arrived in the second wave of the streaming wars. However, its niche seems to be British-set dramas, fantasy shows about vampires, and the occasional insistence The Walking Dead is still relevant. (Spoiler alert, not so much on that last
Reality
Four major reality shows dominate the ratings in the U.K. BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, which here in the U.S. we call Dancing With The Stars, is king. The Great British Baking Show over on Channel 4 is next. ITV's Love Island is the
Drama
The final two weeks of the year are upon us, and with them, the vacation end of the year hours and the holiday TV. Most British series that run Christmas specials overseas don't find their way over to the U.S. until long after the festive season has
Mystery
Whitstable Pearl, AcornTV's new seaside-set mystery series, is yet another entry into the growing pantheon of non-investigators playing detective in sleepy British towns. But the series, which stars Kerry Godliman (After Life) as Pearl Nolan, managed to bring in a few twists to separate itself from the pack,