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
The end of the spring is just around the corner, and the PBS Sunday series lineup, which premiered in early spring, is starting to wrap up. The Wolf Hall sequel, Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light, concludes in the final week of April, though viewers should expect local stations
Viaplay
Don't look now, but yet another mystery series from the 1990s/2000s is getting a revival. Wallander, the franchise based on bestselling author Henning Mankell's series of novels, which has thus far produced two globally-acclaimed Swedish detective series (and one ill-fated prequel), is back. Returning to
Movies
History is constantly changing; as new details and discoveries come to light, the past (which half the time isn't even the past) takes on a new angle. Even subjects people have studied for centuries, like the life and times of William Shakespeare, can suddenly be turned on their
Channel 4
The streaming upheaval that initially rocked the U.S. entertainment landscape in 2014-2015 marked the beginning of the ongoing globalization of television. However, it took a while for that tidal wave to wash ashore across the pond, where places like France literally made laws trying to prevent Netflix from existing.
HBO & HBO Max
HBO's House of the Dragon will never be as big as Game of Thrones was during its heyday, the world has changed too much, not to mention the entertainment landscape. But, like many British-ish series, it continues to gainfully employ fan favorites from PBS shows, and even sometimes
Netflix
Enola Holmes is back on the case, as filming for the third installment in the ongoing franchise has commenced in Malta, according to Netflix. One of the streaming service's more dependable hits of the 2020s, the adaptations of Nancy Springer's middle-grade children's books first
BritBox
The interwar period was a time of massive social change in England, as the Great War swept through with technological marvels and a greater chance at equality than ever before, even as the aristocratic families that once ruled the social world went bankrupt. It was also the dawn of celebrity
Netflix
Heartstopper Season 3 surprised many of its fans who had come to regard the series as a comfort watch. After two seasons of watching teen boys Nick (Kit Conner) and Charlie (Joe Locke) slow-motion fall in love with all the joyful and celebratory feelings that come along with it, reality
BritBox
BritBox has not set a premiere date as yet for the U.S. debut of Code of Silence, but in the U.K., ITV has it slated for mid-May. The new, wholly original police procedural hails from writer Catherine Moulton, who PBS viewers will know from her work on Baptiste,
Netflix
The average American reader is probably not very familiar with Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen or his wildly popular series of thrillers, the Department Q series, initially titled Afdeling Q in Danish. Currently at ten books, with the last one published in 2022, Netflix acquired the rights to produce the first-ever
Sundance Now
No one can deny that one of the significant appeals of historical series is the sweeping vistas and landscapes, not to mention the ancient architecture and buildings. This is also true of contemporary series; for instance, Death in Paradise is all about getting to stare at the Caribbean in the
Movies
It would be impossible to list out all the various adaptations of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, even if one were to stick to only those committed to film. Moreover, much like Pride & Prejudice, feature-length stories of the star-crossed lovers seem to function on a generational scale