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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The film adaptation of Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone, starring Downton Abbey alum Elizabeth McGovern, arrives on PBS Passport this August. When Masterpiece Theater started back in 1971, no one could guess it would still be one of PBS' major anchors nearly fifty years on. But after decades of
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The forthcoming BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse has a virtual murderer's row of talent coming aboard. Screenwriter Sarah Phelps is back again with yet another Agatha Christie adaptation for the BBC. Phelps, who adapted J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, has
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Grantchester Season 4 turns the tables, as Will Davenport asks Geordie for help this time when a murder happens at home. Will: We're not rich, Geordie. Geordie: You have a gong. This week's episode starts with small crimes and misdemeanors when a young girl gets caught
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Endeavour will be back in 2020 just in time to begin the 1970s. Here's what we know about Season 7. There's good news all over for Endeavour, which saw the return of normality at the end of Season 6. The boys of the former Oxford City
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At this year's Television Critics Association summer press tour, PBS confirmed that the upcoming BBC series World On Fire is coming to Masterpiece. Executive Producer Rebecca Eaton announced that PBS has negotiated a deal with BBC One and Mammoth Screen to bring the World War II epic to
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen didn't write enough books. Of course, at the time, six novels seemed like a perfectly acceptable number. But that was back in the early 19th century, long before television's giant insatiable maw needed content every minute of
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Will Davenport's first outing on Grantchester gives fans a hint at the new leading man's past. Leonard: God and I have been moving in rather different circles recently. The first half of this season of Grantchester saw previous leading man Sidney Chambers take his leave, and
Movies
The final Downton Abbey movie poster is here, as producers say "never say never" on a potential sequel. The Downton Abbey movie is rounding into the final six weeks before release, which means the publicity machine is ramping up. The film, which takes place in the fall of
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Despite initial reports that Doctor Who would not return to our televisions until 2020, rumors are starting to suggest otherwise. Here's what we know about Season 12. When Doctor Who aired New Year's Day special, "Resolution," on January 1, 2019, it was, according to
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For anglophiles of most stripes, the title His Dark Materials will be a familiar one. The first book in the Philip Pullman trilogy, The Northern Lights, was released in the U.K. in 1995. It was then retitled The Golden Compass for American audiences before arriving over here, not unlike
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HBO's upcoming limited series Catherine The Great promises a Helen Mirren tour-de-force as the titular monarch. It is the Year for Russian History on HBO. Following this spring's miniseries Chernobyl, the hit dramatization of the 1986 nuclear catastrophe in the USSR, HBO is bringing forth Catherine
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With Sidney Chambers now gone from Grantchester, Geordie looks to a new religious assistant in crime-fighting: Leonard. Leonard: Apparently, it's not illegal because Queen Victoria couldn't imagine what two women would get up to together...and no one had the constitution to explain. For many, Sidney