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.
Disney/Hulu
The sudden success of sisters Kat Sadler and Lizzie Davidson with their startling comedy, Such Brave Girls, cannot be overstated. Neither had much of a career before the series — Sadler's most prominent credit was as a freelance comedy writer for hire on Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, and Davidson had
Acorn TV
It is a truth I hope to live long enough to see Netflix acknowledge, that weekly release series are far superior to binge drops. For one thing, it allows viewers to savor each episode as it arrives, rather than rushing to get to the finale at 1.5x speed or
Movies
Despite the hype around Peaky Blinders — both the film and the recently announced Season 7 — star Cillian Murphy has thus far stayed faithful to making indie films and small offbeat awardsbait projects that are far more arthouse than Oppenheimer's commercial blockbuster. Naturally, having won an Academy Award, production
Disney/Hulu
Next time you hear someone complaining that period piece "force" diversity on their fans by "adding non-white characters to history," please remind them of the biggest historical truth there is: History is written by the winners, and up until recently, white European men were very used
PBS
Jules Maigret has been a fixture on screens large and small since writer Georges Simenon introduced him to the world in 1931's Pietr-le-Letton (The Strange Case of Peter the Lett). Moreover, actors who have played the role tended to keep to Simenon's description of the Parisian
Movies
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen adaptations come in generational waves. In the 1990s, notable adaptations included Andrew Davies' definitive Pride & Prejudice miniseries, Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma, the Ciaran Hines-Amanda Root adaptation of Persuasion, and the Emma Thompson-Kate Winslet adaptation of Sense & Sensibility.
Netflix
There is nothing more frustrating than a great show failing to gain traction because the network that airs or streams it is too busy imploding to actually do its job of marketing TV shows so that audiences can find them and watch. While Paramount+ and MGM+ have been the poster
MGM+
It was March of 2024, not long after the attempt at relevance with Belgravia Season 2, that MGM+ was revealed to be working on a Peaky Blinders-style series, with Narcos’ creator Chris Brancato stepping up to spearhead the project. Never mind that Belgravia: The Next Generation was as dead on
Netflix
Despite PBS successfully importing the best of British television for nearly forty years, when the streaming revolution hit, it wasn't immediately apparent to most production studios how well contemporary U.K. shows would fare with American audiences. Only Netflix figured it out early on, when it imported most
PBS
A mystery series where the amateur detective is a book merchant who uses his love of history and literature to solve crimes sounds like a show made for PBS. Add stars Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and Polly Walker (Bridgerton) as the couple in the center of the series who lead the
Netflix
The year 2025 was never going to be an easy one for Bridgerton fans. One of Netflix's most popular series, the show is currently running on an 18-month production cycle between seasonal releases. With Season 3 arriving midway through 2024, there was no way Season 4 was going
Paramount+
We here at Telly Visions were not kind to MobLand, either in the extremely truncated run-up to the series after the streaming service nabbed the series from Showtime or in our initial review. After all, we were talking about a project that had all the makings of a slam-dunk hit