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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The Wheel of Time may turn on the page of the original Robert Jordan novels, but it moves much swifter on screen. There are many book fans who have been turned off by showrunner Rafe Judkins' extreme streamlining of the 14 tome series, but considering when you add all
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Somewhere around Call the Midwife Season 10, as the show reached the later 1960s and the legalization of abortion and the decriminalization of homosexuality, we started joking that the show was going to need to start thinking about men they want to cast, as Season 19 would be set in
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Unforgotten has slowly become one of Masterpiece's most enduring mystery shows. It is currently one of the very few to reach more than five seasons without being based on a popular book series. The ITV show has weathered a full-on lead casting change from Nicola Walker to Sinead
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We first caught wind of Picture This, the romcom starring Bridgerton's Simone Ashley and Young Sherlock's Hero Fiennes Tiffen, just under a year ago in the spring of 2024. At the time, filming on the Prime Video movie, which was planned as a straight-to-streaming release, had
Netflix
As someone who went through the hell years of teenage angst in the early 1990s, before the internet as we know it today or social media even existed, the idea of being a teenager in the 2020s seems pretty horrifying. Entire new forms of bullying and harassment, unseen by adult
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The yearly conclusion of All Creatures Great & Small on PBS is a bit like Groundhog Day here in the U.S., signaling that the end of winter is heading our way. ("Groundhog Day," meaning the actual event of a groundhog sticking his head out of a hole,
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It took 65 years for James Bond to finally exit the U.K., but as of February 20, 2025, the man with a license to kill is officially an Amazon employee. The nearly decade-long saga of the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos' quest for the right to
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Irish author Marian Keyes is a success story out of a novel. After growing up in Limerick, she moved to London only to suffer depression and addiction. But in the depths of her recovery, she began to write short stories drawn from her family experiences, only to have her editor
Peacock
Despite the incessant rumors surrounding Line of Duty's return, U.K. viewers already have a solid replacement, and it's not any of the shows that followed from creator Jed Mercurio in the wake of the series' sixth (and so far final) season. As much as
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When the executives behind Walter Presents, Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino, decided to start a production company to remake their most popular foreign language hits in English, choosing Professor T was a no-brainer. The original three-season Belgian version was a hit in the U.S. and the U.K., plus
Disney/Hulu
The BBC and the press have bemoaned the lack of successful comedies from the U.K.'s public production studios in the past few years. Most of these have focused on the "easily offended" crowd and other nonsense as if one needs to be offensive to be
BritBox
Ever since the early 1980s BBC debut of Miss Marple, starring Agatha Christie's handpicked star Joan Hickson in the titular role, adaptations of the celebrated English author have been a reliable ratings draw. The BBC's Partners in Crime followed in the mid-1980s before ITV struck gold