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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Rumor had it that this week would be Dairy Week on The Great British Baking Show Season 16, an understandable mistake. Since Mexican Week in Season 13 led the series to eliminate cultural theme weeks, the production has become rather strict about adhering to a particular order for themes. Cakes-
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Like just about everything in 2025, good news comes with bad news. First, the bad news: For everyone who has October circled for the arrival of Sally Wainwright's new series Riot Women, brace yourself for a few more weeks' wait. The series has been pushed from the
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One of the worst aspects of the streaming revolution was Netflix's determination to upend the traditional TV schedule, believing that people did not want to be forced into appointment television or made to wait on weekly installments, effectively destroying one of the few remaining cultural traditions that cut
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As Unforgotten hits its penultimate episode, in which little happens other than gathering all our suspects in one place, Agatha Christie-style, several things have become clear about The Case of Gerald Cooper, starting with the most significant latest discovery: Everything we know about it is a lie. It begins
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There is a slight irony to the way “Bread Week” has developed as part of The Great British Baking Show. Both “Cake Week” and “Bread Week” have been staples of the series since the very beginning. Biscuit Week now officially sits between them; however, there were several seasons where baking
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It is a truth that has not yet been universally acknowledged (but we're getting there) that the leaders of the U.S. and the U.K. governments are not always the brightest crayons in the box. Like most people who have the emotional wherewithal (and monetary means) to
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The 2020s began with a reckoning over shows that glorify law enforcement, but instead of changing the landscape, the five years that followed seem to have only doubled down on such things. There are more Law & Order shows than ever, and dozens of shows with alphabet soup levels of
Acorn TV
The seal has officially been broken over on Acorn TV. The most popular of American company AMC Networks' little federation of niche streamers, the originally UK-based service has been very careful since being purchased to stick to its mission of being a home of English language shows from
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In the Western Canon of Great Books, there are two stories by Charles Dickens that everyone has heard of, even if they've never even seen a copy in their lives. The first, A Christmas Carol, has gotten new adaptations almost every year since the turn of the century,
BritBox
BritBox's rise from the nichiest-niche afterthought of a streaming service to the destination for British programming has been a slow climb since it was first announced seven years ago. However, having made three successful standalone Agatha Christie miniseries in partnership with the BBC, the streaming service is
Acorn TV
AMC Networks' little band of niche streaming services sometimes feels to me like The Little Engine That Could. Every time things seem to be going south again, someone digs deep and produces something far better than it has any right to be, like Interview with a Vampire on AMC+
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The problem with Unforgotten is that it often tries to cram too many elements into any given case. That was the problem with that initial first season, it wasn't just the 1970s economic situation; it wasn't just a toxic marriage, or closeted gay man who made