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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When Call the Midwife first debuted back in 2012, it was one of the BBC's biggest out-of-the-box hits with audiences right from the jump. It was so popular, PBS jumped on board right away, bringing the first season across the pond before the end of
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Biscuit week opens with no skit welcoming us to The Great British Baking Show, just a drone flyover of the small river that runs through Welford Park in Berkshire. I think this is the first time the show has used drones for casual filming shots, and for TV geeks like
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It took three seasons, but World War II is finally coming to an end in All Creatures Great & Small. After the Season 5 Christmas special closed out with the end of 1942, the show is hitting its first significant time jump and picking back up in mid-1945 for
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It’s been a year and a half since Netflix initially announced it had snapped up the rights to adapt Grown Ups, the best-selling novel by Irish writer Marian Keyes. Originally part of a blockbuster upcoming slate revealed in March 2024, Grown Ups was initially included in a line-
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It was mid-July 2025 when we first got word of The Detection Club, a forthcoming mystery series reportedly in the works from BritBox and the BBC. However, at the time, neither production studio would confirm the series, which was reportedly going to be based on the real-life group
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There is an accepted truism about historical period dramas as a way for our culture to process the current landscape more easily than dealing with the present reality. Taking the issues of the day and running them through a funhouse mirror of the past makes it easier for audiences to
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If Netflix enthusiasts know the name Charlie Brooker, it's due to his futuristic horror series Black Mirror, which often hits far too close to home for comfort. The show aired on Channel 4 for a short time, was canceled just as it moved to Netflix in 2014, and
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Masterpiece has now lasted long enough as an entity that it has a catalog of old shows that once ran on PBS to work from and revive, such as Poldark (the original 1970s version aired on Masterpiece Theater) and All Creatures Great & Small (the original aired on PBS, but
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Thirty years after Alicia Silverstone became famous in Clueless, bringing an updated version of Jane Austen's classic Emma to the middle school masses, she once again conquered the heart of Anglophiles everywhere with her hit series Irish Blood. A proper cozy crime series set in the beautiful landscapes
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The 2020s will be remembered for many things. However, one small part of the entertainment landscape will probably end up overlooked: the sharp increase in murder mysteries and police procedural television in the Western world. From true crime to dramatic thrillers to cozy crime, these shows, referred to in the
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As expected, Unforgotten's third episode opens with the team quickly starting to round up the names of the suspects we've already met. Ram's tip about the ex-employee who was not paid during the pandemic leads to the pub's manager, a lovely
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The Great British Baking Show is back for a record 16th season! The series returned to Channel 4 at the top of September, and has rolled right over to Netflix for the weekend, bringing the joys of the tent back to fans a few weeks earlier than usual. Outside the