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.
Movies
After retracting the initially planned holiday release date of Christmas 2021, the Downton Abbey sequel is back on the big-screen schedule. Producing partner Focus Features, the Comcast-owned indie studio that distributed the first Downton Abbey film, made the sequel a significant part of their presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas
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Miss Scarlet & The Duke was one of the two big bright spots in the winter of 2021 on Masterpiece's lineup alongside All Creatures Great and Small. While the latter was already greenlit for Season 2 before the story of the Yorkshire Dales even arrived in the U.
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The Murdoch Mysteries sidecar spinoff, The Frankie Drake Mysteries, is coming to an end here in the U.S. The Canadian-produced period piece featuring a fictionalized take on the first female-run detective agency in Toronto in the 1920s was a cult favorite among the Murdoch fandom. But after four successful
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The final episode of most mysteries series is all about the denouement, the murderer, the reveal. But not when it comes to The Beast Must Die. Everyone agrees the beast being dead is a good thing, for one. Justice for his death would not be arresting someone but thanking them.
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After three seasons spotlighting Queen Elizabeth II and her cohort, Season 4 of The Crown did a screeching left turn as the next generation of royals burst upon the worldwide stage with the marriage of Charles and Diana. While Elizabeth remains the series' main focus, the center of the
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When the NBC streaming platform Peacock first debuted in the summer of 2020, it arrived with a couple of British-angled titles, including the David Schwimmer comic oddity Intelligence and the Holliday Grainger mystery thriller The Capture. Though the former didn't take off the way the streaming service had
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The pandemic may have upended filming on Call The Midwife in 2020, but the tenth anniversary season will still arrive in 2021 with much fanfare. The BBC aired the new season in the spring, complete with a tenth anniversary special, Call the Midwife: Special Delivery, directly following. Now the tenth
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Unforgotten's Season 4 ended with a shocker close. Despite all the optimistic prognoses in the episode's opening minutes about Cassie Stuart's condition after her car wreck, things went south. The bleed on the brain was more extensive than doctors thought, and the chances for
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It may not be the series finale, but it felt like one, as a medical drama randomly broke out in the middle of our Unforgotten Season 4 finale episode. There were tears, uncomfortable waiting room chairs, bedside confessionals, and DCI Cassie Stuart, only weeks from retirement, in a coma, having
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On the surface, Grantchester seems like your typical lighthearted odd couple crime solvers mystery series. One's a priest, and the other's a cop; Sidney (and now Will) are young men of the new generation. Geordie is an old-school World War II vet. One's single
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Since the premiere of the All Creatures Great and Small reboot, the series has brought in a whole new generation of fans. Like the original series, the show is based on the writings of James Herriot, who worked as a veterinarian in Yorkshire in the interwar period and World War
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Ever since Sanditon received a surprise renewal in the spring of 2021, fans have been chomping at the bit for news about the coming seasons. With filming underway, the cast has been set and there are a few hints at the direction the revived series will take when it rejoins