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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Fans of Wolf Hall will rejoice. While the wait continues for the delayed sequel based on Hilary Mantel's third novel The Mirror & The Light, the team has gotten the band back together for a project at U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 co-produced with NBCUniversal's Peacock.
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On the surface, Acorn TV's new series, Whitstable Pearl, seems to be yet another "lots of deaths in a small English town magically solved by common citizens" series. The genre is so famous that it's spawned multiple parodies, from McSweeney's "Help!
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Bridgerton is Netflix's most successful series in the streaming service's history, topping its internal ratings measurements by orders of magnitude in the middle of what was already a banner year. The show was so successful that Netflix broke the
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When Line of Duty first started airing in 2012 on BBC Two, it was a hit right out of the gate. Written and created by Jed Mercurio, it was the latest in a string of high-profile projects from the writer that ran the gamut from the ultra-realistic hospital drama Cardiac
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Fans of cold noir mysteries on hot summer nights have a new title to add to their must-watch list this year. The Beast Must Die, commissioned initially as one of BritBox UK's first original series, is heading to the US to air on AMC and its corresponding streamer,
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It may be "shot girl summer" here in the states, but on Acorn TV, it's going to be "sixties girl summer" starting in June with Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries Season 2. Ms. Fisher — the younger version, Peregrine, is back with a
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The announcement earlier this week that Sanditon for not one but two more seasons took fans by surprise. But what was interesting wasn't just that ITV and Masterpiece were essentially doing an about-face on the program after canceling it over a year ago. It was the little details,
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When it was announced Andrew Davies was taking on Sanditon, the final, unfinished novel written by Jane Austen, there were high hopes around the Janite fandom. Davies, whose 1995 Pride & Prejudice is still considered the gold standard, had worked on four adaptations of Austen's six famous novels,
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HBO and HBO Max are known for featuring the creme-de-la-creme of Brit-led content, either co-productions like Chernobyl or shows studded with U.K. talent, like The Nevers. But HBO has also long done original movies, some of which are also British-backed pieces. The channel has brought over everything from Peter
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After last year's mass importing of British shows to help American TV fill in the pandemic gaps in programming, May is surprisingly a quiet month in U.K. TV. For the first time in a long time, Netflix doesn't have any new debuts. But that doesn&
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After months of delay, Call The Midwife is finally back on BBC where it belongs. After managing to get its Christmas special up on time, the regular season, which usually follows directly in January, was delayed by a few months as filming wound down. But once it was ready for
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In today's Hollywood, a completely original work of fiction as a prestige TV series is a rare sight. Most of the time, when a production studio sinks that kind of money into a series, especially a CGI heavy fantasy-laden one, they want a built-in fanbase from a series