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
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
Acorn TV
Murdoch Mysteries’ eighteen seasons may seem paltry next to shows like the U.K.’s Midsomer Murders (Season 25) or Silent Witness (Season 28). However, on this side of the pond, it’s nearly legendary as Canada’s longest-running scripted one-hour drama series. The period mystery series first debuted in
Netflix
Netflix has traveled far from the company's original ideals when it launched House of Cards in 2013. Back then, the streaming service was all about the prestige TV game and greenlighting ambitious series no one in their right mind would have agreed to, such as agreeing to six
PBS
Marie Antoinette may never have said, “Let Them Eat Cake,” but history seems obsessed with her anyway. The extraordinarily wealthy and somewhat traumatized young bride of Louis XVI lived a life of extremes, little parenting, and less help in adulting; she buried herself in beauty and comfort until the populace
Actors and Actresses
James Norton's exit from Grantchester was messier than anyone would have liked. At the end of his three-season contract, he declined to re-sign for another season, delaying the show's fourth season by nearly a year as an agreement was worked out where he would be written
Acorn TV
We're a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and 2025 looks like it's about to become a cultural tipping point in most significant areas of Western life. One of those places is the entertainment landscape: Paramount+ will be sold to Skydance, Netflix just yanked
Netflix
Our time in The Dreaming is ending, likely earlier than many of us expected. Netflix has confirmed that its forthcoming second season of The Sandman will be the series last. Based on the award-winning series of the same name, The Sandman follows the story of Morpheus, informally known as Dream,
Apple TV
Most people probably missed Surface the first time around when it debuted on Apple TV +. The series initially arrived in 2022, about a month before the first season of Bad Sisters and less than a year after star Gugu Mbatha-Raw appeared in Max drama The Girl Before, another thriller about
AMC/AMC+
Most Americans are unaware of the Sky series Gangs of London, despite the show initially debuting five years ago in April 2020 and now gearing up to debut its third season in March 2025. While not nearly as egregious as, say, Rogue Heroes being lost on MGM+, from its first
Now Stream This
T.S. Elliot claimed April was the cruelest month, but by my watch, that honor should go to February, which is grey, cold, and dreary. The only thing this month has in its favor is that if it's going to be nasty and brutish, at least it'
PBS
Out of all the British series coming to American shores in 2025, the return of Wolf Hall to PBS, a decade after the series initially debuted, might be the most anticipated. The original series covered the two books released by Hilary Mantel at the time, Wolf Hall and Bringing Up