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.
Showtrial
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
Murder In Provence
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,
Conversations With Friends
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
Magpie Murders
Though it does not have an announced release date yet, Masterpiece's Susanne Simpson confirmed in January that Magpie Murders was planned for a 2022 release, probably in the second half of the year. The series stars Lesley Manville (World On Fire) as Susan Ryeland, mystery author Alan Conway&
Comedy
In television, timing is everything. His Dark Materials, which might have hit big in 2012, is one of the many also-rans of the prestige era in 2022. A series that's ahead of its time, like Life on Mars, struggles to find an audience in 2006 when in
Litvinenko
It is a truth universally acknowledged that no one in Hollywood has an original idea, and if they do, someone next door has it five minutes later. This is how multiplexes end up with the "Twin Films" phenomenon, from dueling Winston Churchill films Darkest Hour and Churchill, to
Ragdoll
Streaming service AMC+ and its sister linear network, AMC, continue to share and share-alike. The niche streamer, one part British series, one part vampires, and one part zombies, has been playing around with which release strategy is most effective. It's tried weekly in tandem, weekly on streaming/
The Man Who Fell to Earth
With The Queen's Gambit an unexpected success for Netflix in 2020, it wasn't going to be long before Walter Tevis' other, better-known books would become the basis for new TV series on streaming and premium cable. Originally developed at Hulu, a remake of the
Gentleman Jack
Known for such hits as Scott & Bailey, Last Tango in Halifax, and Happy Valley, in 2016, Sally Wainwright was awarded the Wellcome Trust's £30,000 screenwriting fellowship grant to develop new programming in partnership with Film4 and the British Film Institute. The story she chose to start
Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker
In another move that takes Discovery+ one step closer to being a service anglophiles need to add to their lineup, the streamer has snapped up the North American rights to Channel 4's newest reality series hit, Handmade: Britain's Best Woodworker. The series, from Plimsoll Productions (best
Anatomy of a Scandal
First, there was A Very English Scandal. Then there was A Very British Scandal. Now comes a second anthology series, Anatomy of a Scandal, which also focuses on the misbehaviors of the elite upper classes in the U.K. that keep the tabloids' sales in the black. The new
Now Stream This
February is a short month, but that doesn't mean there isn't a crush of content coming. With so many January debuts last month, many streamers — especially ones that release weekly, like HBO Max and AMC+/Acorn — still have brand new episodes of fan favorites arriving throughout