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.
BritBox
The BritBox and ITV co-production, Code of Silence, was first announced in the fall of 2024 as it headed into production. As you might assume from a show with this sort of name, it is a crime thriller, with a pair of detectives and a not-quite-professional crime solver who is
Movies
The Oscars Primetime telecast may signal the end of awards season, but the next wave of awards contenders are already gearing up to take the public's attention. Even before the Academy Awards announced its nominations for the year that was 2024, Sundance was introducing the tentative hopefuls, and
Acorn TV
Cozy crime series tend to fall under one of three primary tropes. There's the "Secretly a Romance" series, where the "will they or won't they" of the detectives is the key to liking it, think Silent Witness since Season 14; the "
PBS
Even if Jane Austen's untimely passing hadn't happened, it's highly doubtful she would have lived to see 2025; this year marks the late author's 250th birthday, and as befitting one of the two best selling female authors of all time in the
Paramount+
I have been hard on Paramount and its forthcoming Guy Ritchie original series MobLand. But my anger doesn't stem from the show's bad quality or my irrational dislike of the storied studio. It's because I care. I wanted Paramount+ to succeed when it finally
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Weather-wise, March roars in like a lion, but when it comes to television, the first month of spring is traditionally a slow starter. There's a lot of reasons the TV schedule tends to shake out that way — the Academy Awards usually eats up the first or second weekend
BritBox
The Welsh cultural resurgence in the U.K. is one of the feel-good stories of the 2020s, but most Americans have no idea which of the "British" actors they've seen are actually Welsh. (Michael Sheen may be the big exception to this rule, simply because of
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
I will be the first to admit I was wrong about The Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power. Sure, we here at Telly Visions enjoy the series; however, the process of creating those first two seasons was an utter mess, even without the 2020 pandemic and 2023 strike
ITV
Though most Americans think of the BBC when they think of British television, the truth is a lot (and I mean a LOT) of British favorites that cross the pond actually come from the BBC's main rival, ITV. Some of Masterpiece's most popular shows are from
BritBox
Grace is one of those British detective series that spends years flying under the radar until one day it reaches Season 10, and then suddenly people start noticing it's quietly become a cultural staple when no one was paying attention. Most of the dramas that inhabit that space
Paramount+
Since the success of Guy Ritchie's Netflix series The Gentlemen, the action-focused director has been all over the news, taking on everything from a Gentlemen sequel series to a spinoff movie Wife & Dog to a new Young Sherlock. However, throughout the fall of 2024, we kept hearing
PBS
PBS has been off cycle from the commercial TV world ever since it discovered it could have the entirety of January to itself. However, spring is still a significant part of the schedule, especially when Masterpiece has a series it genuinely believes can compete in the yearly Primetime Emmy push.