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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Such Brave Girls was a risky series for the BBC to commission in 2022. It was the debut series by comedian Kat Sadler, who had never starred in her own series, let alone one she was spearheading, writing, and executive producing. Moreover, the subject matter — about a deeply dysfunctional family,
Fox
Most people no longer remember that Doc Martin was initially a spinoff of a British film, the comedy Saving Grace, where star Martin Clunes played "Doc Martin," Dr. Martin Bamford, a London surgeon stuck out in the wilds of Cornwall. When a spinoff was commissioned to explain how
Channel 5
In an era where legacy media is struggling in the face of changing technology, Channel 5 stands out as one of the few success stories among the networks that existed before streaming upended the landscape. Once a third-tier also-ran network on the U.K. dial that mostly aired
Movies
It remains to be seen whether the deeply ambitious project currently being called The Beatles—A Four Film Cinematic Event will actually be the big screen success Sony hopes it will be. (The deeply painful title certainly doesn't help, though we will just politely ignore that boardroom-ese
BritBox
It only took the BBC five years and three Agatha Christie adaptations before it returned to its most recent primary adaptor of Christie novels, Sarah Phelps (The Sixth Commandment). Phelps made herself into something of a U.K. household name after she did a run of five Christie adaptations in
PBS
The spinoff rumors for Call the Midwife have been getting louder in the last few months, as the series, currently airing Season 14 and commissioned for Season 15, shows no signs of wavering in its popularity. Series creator Helen Thomas recently acknowledged them, stating that developing a spinoff worthy of
Movies
When they hear the phrase "Cannes Film Festival," most people picture A-list celebrities on red carpets and images of celebrity arrivals by boat to the premieres of films that may be considered for awards season in the fall. But there are actually two halves to the event:
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Nicole Kidman and Liane Moriarty have been partners since 2016, when Kidman's Blossom Films teamed up with Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine to produce an adaptation of Moriarty's best-selling Big Little Lies for HBO. Kidman and Witherspoon's push to create TV series
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No one is more associated with nature documentaries than Sir David Attenborough, the British naturalist who happened to be in the right place at the right time as the BBC moved into television. Attenborough's on-screen career has now reached eight decades, from the first zoo-based series
Netflix
Most people track the changes in how we fly as having begun in 2001. However, the real moment air travel forever went from some glamorous lifestyle to a security nightmare was 1988, when the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Up until that incident, taking
Apple TV
Dick Turpin will ride once more on Apple TV+, but only once more. According to reports from Broadcast UK (which has been the lead outlet breaking The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin news, including the Season 2 renewal and the show's sudden cancellation), Apple TV+ has
PBS
Ever since it debuted in July 2021, the U.K. adaptation of Professor T has bounced around the PBS schedule like a rubber ball. Season 2 of the series arrived in September 2023, and Season 3 in June 2024. Obviously, that could only mean that Season 4 would debut sometime