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 Wheel of Time
For a particular generation of fantasy readers, "The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and go" is the start of fifteen novels from Robert Jordan, published from 1990 to 2013. For Amazon, The Wheel of Time started turning back in 2018 as part of a massive pair
Dickinson
As Emily Dickinson wrote, "That it will never come again is what makes life sweet." Unfortunately, that will also go for the delightful romp that is the Apple TV+ series that bears her name, Dickinson, which announced at the beginning of September 2021 that Season 3 would be
Culture
After several months of feast and famine due to pandemic schedules, the fall of 2021 settles into its regularly scheduled title deliveries, with shows from Passport, Netflix, Acorn TV, and BritBox, plus a few bonuses from other streaming services. This month, fans can expect everything from period pieces to gangland
All Creatures Great and Small
The All Creatures Great and Small remake was 2021's first real hit. Snuggling down in the Yorkshire Dales to save a few cows turned out to be just what the doctor ordered last winter. But for those concerned that there might be a lack of small-time dramas
Comedy
Masterpiece's September is going to kick off with a slightly unusual entry, a comedy called Guilt. Though comedies aren't unknown to Masterpiece, the franchise is far better known for the historical period drama (hello Downton Abbey) and mystery series set in some quaint little village (I
Movies
On Aug. 31, 1997, Princess Diana died in a Paris hospital after a tragic car crash. Next year, in 2022, it will be 25 years since her passing. Ironically, this is also the moment when her story is being told in multiple aspects of the media. The Crown kicked it
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
Miss Scarlet (and the Duke)
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.
The Frankie Drake Mysteries
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
The Beast Must Die
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.
The Crown
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
The Capture
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