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.
Mystery
In its second episode, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries randomly opens with a would-be Fagan, Mr. Merton (Jacek Koman), discovering one of his little girl pickpockets, Jane (Ruby Rees), is more violent with a fork than he anticipates. This seemingly disconnected scene quickly connects to this week's
Mystery
When Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries first arrived on PBS stations in 2013, it didn't air under the flag of the recently created Masterpiece Mystery umbrella. An Australian import that already had its first run on the niche streamer Acorn TV, it was secondary to shows like
Drama
Doctor Who's "Spyfall, Part 1" ended with The Doctor trapped in the green place and Ryan, Yaz, and Graham on an airplane, the engine of which has been blown off. How will they survive this nasty death? Well, it starts with a glass and metal square
Sci-Fi
It's big-budget time for the Doctor Who. The cold open of the Season 12 premiere spanned South Africa to Moscow, but the most important place in the world is Sheffield, where Ryan, Yaz, and Graham are all home for the moment, trying to play off their long absences.
Culture
The cold and gloom of January mean lots of evenings spent in front of the telly. But rather than watching ending American TV shows, streaming services are out here bringing anglophiles like us lots of great TV from overseas. From Netflix to PBS Passport, there are a dozen new series
Culture
The 2010s are over. The new decade is just around the corner, and the next round of what could be the "Roaring 20s" is set to begin. As viewers look forward to the future, which promises anglophiles everything from a new King to a new batch of British
Culture
Predicting the future is a fool's errand, but when years with nice round numbers turn up, people do it anyway. It's hard to know what the next decade will bring in the world of television. If someone had told me in 2009 that the biggest shows
Drama
I often group Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials with George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire when discussing its impact on the fantasy landscape. That's because both play on the same stereotype of the genre — the heroic white male whose plot
Culture
As 2020 draws near, we take a look ahead at the new British programs are heading our way in the New Year, and discuss the favorites we can't wait to see return. Let's run down some of the major highlights we're expecting to see
Culture
It's the end of 2019, and that means it's time to get reflective. We look back at the best British shows that aired on your local PBS station this year, from period drama to mystery and more. This was a big year for British programming on
Drama
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries was a surprise hit of the decade when it traveled around the world from Australian TV to America in 2013. Since then, the 1920s-era series, which is based on author Kerry Greenwood's historical mystery novels, has gone on to become a cult
Drama
Critics have complained that His Dark Materials has failed so far in its ability to emphasize the importance of the daemon-human bond in Lyra's world. Up until this week, I was inclined to argue with them. Though Lyra and Pan are not in constant contact in quite the