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.
ITV
The first three months of the year are when British networks start revealing the shows they've been working on internally, which will hopefully head our way in 2025. While none of these shows have American distributors when first announced, some are easily recognizable as the sort of show
Netflix
Netflix likes to present itself as an underdog in the entertainment world, an upstart rebel here to improve television. In reality, Netflix is the 650-pound gorilla of the streaming world, dwarfing the competition and all but guaranteeing the death of basic cable now that it’s taking away live sports,
PBS
We are in a golden age of murder mysteries on TV. Cozy crime like Grantchester, Father Brown, and Death in Paradise are all hitting double-digit seasons. Meanwhile, more highbrow fare aims to do something different with the genre, from Agatha Christie reimaginings like Murder Is Easy to upcoming comedy mysteries
BritBox
Most Americans probably first encountered That Mitchell & Webb Look in syndication on BBC America in the early 2010s or streaming on Hulu and Netflix in the twenty-teens. Titular stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb were already quite popular in the U.K., first breaking out with The Mitchell and
ITV
There are two ways to handle the surprise success of a TV limited series. One can simply accept the success, take the awards and accolades, and move on. One can renew the series for a second season and hope the writers have some good ideas on where the characters go
PBS
February is the shortest and cruelest month. Just when you think the horrors of winter are over, February manages to strike with one last snowstorm, deep freeze, or wildfire. For PBS viewers, February rarely brings major debuts. It is treated as a January appendage, with all the major British debuts
BBC
There's been a lot in the news lately about the BBC's pipeline backup and the need for Parliament to change the rules ahead of the 2026 charter to be more flexible about co-productions and grant money. While some of this is a bit of hyperbole and
MGM+
It's been nearly a year since the SEC formally announced it would allow movie production house Lionsgate to spin off its homegrown streaming service Starz into two companies. The split has been slow and protracted, with Lionsgate not filing its finalized plan until November 2024. Even as the
PBS
Call The Midwife Season 14 kicked off with a double-helping over the holidays, as the series debuted its first-ever two-part holiday special. As always, the Cristmas Day premiere of the series (which in this case was followed by Part 2 on Boxing Day), is quickly joined on the BBC by
Disney/Hulu
The extremely dark and funny Am I Being Unreasonable? is one of those comedies that people forget when discussing the sitcom as an endangered species. A slightly deranged comedy from the team of Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli (This Country), the series embodies the new type of comedy that&
Tubi
Streaming services in the U.K. are generally relatively easy to identify with their on-air counterparts; BBC iPlayer is, obviously, the BBC, ITVX is ITV, More4 is Channel 4, My5 is Channel 5, etc. In comparison, most American streaming services downright obfuscate what network they're associated with (Disney+
Movies
When the first installment in the "young adult romantic fantasy" Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, Children of Blood & Bone, was published in 2018, it already had a deal with a major studio to turn the story into a feature film. Despite the first installment of the series being