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.
PBS
Watching a sleeper hit become one of the most popular British shows that airs on PBS always feels a bit miraculous, like seeing a full double rainbow or a meteor shooting across the sky. That goes double if the first season of the show wasn't all that great,
HBO & HBO Max
The Gilded Age crossed its mid-point of Season 3 with a triumphant staging of Gladys' wedding to the Duke of Buckingham. Much like The Buccaneers did before it, Gladys' wedding is inspired by (and pulls from) one of the most famous Gilded Age weddings of all time: Consuelo
PBS
When James Norton attempted to pull a Dan Stevens on Downton Abbey and refused to sign on to return for Grantchester Season 4, it was deeply unfortunate timing. Much like Julian Fellowes with Stevens, the Grantchester production team assumed this was a ploy for money, and wrote a Season 3
PBS
Since Great Performances rekindled its relationship with The Public Theater and its long-running Shakespeare in the Park summer festival series in the mid-2010s, the recording of the live show has been the endcap of the PBS series' TV season, arriving in early to mid-May. Those who couldn't
Viaplay
The last five years or so have seen PBS and PBS Passport join the foreign language series fandom as part of public broadcasting's shift to streaming. The Channel 4 series Walter Presents (which brings the best of European programming to the U.K., the same way Masterpiece brings
Netflix
Netflix initially revealed it had commissioned an adaptation of playwright Julia May Jonas' best-selling novel, Vladimir, in March 2025. The book, a "darkly comic thriller," was Jonas's debut novel when it arrived in February 2022, and it shot to the top of multiple bestseller lists
Apple TV
Most Western history courses treat the Americas and Oceania as if the history of those countries started when white men first set foot on them. It's only in the last 50 years or so that the centuries-old cultures that were already there have even begun to have their
PBS
If PBS' announcement that Grantchester will end with Season 11 in 2026 feels like the end of an era, that's because it is. The last Masterpiece show still on the air that launched during the Downton Abbey era, Grantchester, was one of the very few series left
BritBox
Code of Silence's first season doesn't debut on BritBox until close to the end of July 2025, but ITV is already moving forward with Season 2. The series, which was a critical darling in the U.K. when it premiered in May 2025, was one of
BBC
Eve Myles is staying booked and busy with a lead role in the BBC's next major thriller, The Guest. Described as "layered with intense drama," the series features the classic older woman/younger woman toxic dynamic, where the younger woman usurps the older one, or at
Netflix
It was over three years ago, in June 2022, that Showtime and Channel 4 announced they would collaborate on a new co-production series called Entitled. The series would star American actor and Stranger Things breakout star Brett Gelman, who was also still riding high on his turn in Phoebe Waller-Bridge&
Apple TV
Not all Americans understand precisely how actors become Sirs and Dames. It's a multiple-step process, starting with being awarded Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), or Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British