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.
Netflix
Netflix does not have the best track record for Jane Austen adaptations. So far, the streaming service has only produced one (1) Jane Austen adaptation, 2022's Persuasion, but it so fundamentally misunderstood the spirit of Austen's best novel that it instantly became an entire track record.
Movies
Thierry Frémaux, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, unveiled the line-up for 2025, its 78th edition, with an Official Selection that was surprisingly heavy on American offerings, considering the festival broke the record for submissions with a record 2,909 features submitted. As always, the entire roster made motions
PBS
Walking with Dinosaurs was an ambitious series when it premiered on the BBC in 1999; at the time, Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) was still a new technology, and creating lifelike dinosaurs was the province of big-budget blockbusters like Jurassic Park, not public television. However, the show took the U.K.
BBC
We've been covering the Welsh language and culture resurgence in the last few months as the Cymraeg 2050 project has started altering the U.K. TV landscape. But we would be remiss if we did not also note another surprising bilingualism that's been recently embraced by
Netflix
C'mon y'all, say it with me: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that..." ...when a TV series is a hit, renewal is in the cards. This has become far more of a given since the streaming wars began, and anything that was a known
BBC
Lately, there's been a trend of new series lacking American distributors when commissioned, spanning a much larger-than-usual amount of announcements. That's not some freak occurrence; since January 2025, the instability around the U.S. leadership has made European TV bosses hesitant to co-produce with American networks.
AMC/AMC+
Most of the time, when we talk about Film Festivals and awards bait films that come out of them, we're talking about films from major indie producers like A24 and festivals that are part of the traditional "Big Five" (Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto). However, an
Acorn TV
The beloved cozy crime show The Brokenwood Mysteries returns to Acorn TV for Season 11, taking the New Zealand-set series into its second decade. Set in the (fictitious) titular town on the North Island of the country in the greater Auckland region, the series started as a traditional "old
Netflix
Considering how fast a turnaround broadcast TV shows live under, it's not all that surprising that most people have no idea how long movies spend in development. Most big-name high-action thrillers can be filmed two to three years before the producers have any thought of the finished product
BBC
The one-two punch of Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty in A Thousand Blows and Adolescence has been a small triumph here in the States, with the latter hitting record viewership in the U.K. and made available to all middle schools to stream for free by the Prime Minister. Should
ITV
A little less than a year ago, ITV announced it was commissioning Secret Service, based on the bestselling novel by Tom Bradby, with the author adapting his own work with screenwriter Jemma Kennedy. A political thriller about U.K.-Russia relations that was initially released in 2019, it is the
Sundance Now
Not every country has a signature homegrown streamer the way the U.S. has Netflix. Launching a successful streaming service without viewers already feeling deeply familiar with the studio it's tied to is tough. It's not an accident the most successful streaming service in New Zealand