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.
Movies
On the heels of Jessie Buckley's critically acclaimed turn in The Lost Daughter in 2021, where she played opposite Olivia Colman, it was announced she'd be teaming up with another British actor heading for Dame-hood, Fiona Shaw, in a new film called Hot Milk. The picture
Acorn TV
Happy Murdoch Mysteries Day for all who celebrate. The show's current season (Season 18) debuted in October 2024 on the CBC in Canada and on the little-watched cable channel Ovation in the U.S. (which has a free streamer that viewers can find, where all episodes have been
BritBox
The BAFTAs return for another year, with the first of two annual events arriving just after Valentine's Day. The British Academy Film Awards, the first of the two events covering British Film and Television, is now nearly 80 years in and continues to honor the best work on
Tubi
It took almost a year and a post or two begging for a second season, but Channel 4 has confirmed the return of the unsung comedy hit of 2024, Big Mood. The series had decent viewership numbers in the U.K. when it initially aired, but surprised Anglophiles in the
BBC
The Industrial Revolution in Western culture was the death knell for a way of life that involved one’s extended family in the U.S., the U.K., and other European countries focused on advancing technology. But that culture is still alive and well, especially in South Asian communities. The
Movies
It may seem like most awards-bait films starring a high-profile British cast that debut at the various film festivals are instantly scooped up by studios eager for Acamdey Award attention, but that's not always true. Many get bogged down in negotiations with buyers or come away with tepid
Peacock
Not every period piece is based on a true story; it just can feel that way sometimes, especially with the rise of the biopic film in Academy voters' hearts in the last decade and TV's tendency to retell already-known stories. Sometimes, just being based in a specific
Acorn TV
AMC Networks will face its first reckoning of 2025 in mid-February, when the final numbers come in for 2024, and the parent company of the little federation of streaming services headed up by AMC+ has to admit if its strategy is working. (Signs aren't good, but we live
Disney/Hulu
Hulu's announcement that it was scooping up the wildly funny BBC breakout hit Black Ops came on the heels of the BBC confirming the show's return for a second season. Season 1 hasn't reached America yet (it's expected to debut in early
BritBox
It’s rare for the BBC to greenlight more than one season at a time, and certainly not before the current one has aired, which is why the announcement the network was giving Blue Lights a third and fourth season before Season 2 arrived in early 2024 was a bit
BritBox
Hotel Portofino was about halfway through Season 3 in the summer of 2024 when Eagle Eye Drama's Jo McGrath, the studio behind the series, revealed there were plans for a second series set in Italy. As part of the public-facing Eagle Eye team along with Walter Iuzzolino, the
PBS
One of the biggest series of 2023 in the U.K. was the BBC series The Gold. Initially imagined as a limited series, the six-part small-screen dramatization of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery was a star-studded affair, full of PBS favorites, as is befitting of a show that retold the