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.
PBS
Over on Walter Presents, Astrid (Astrid et Raphaëlle) is hitting peak popularity, as the series' fourth season is handed the honor of kicking off the foreign language anthology series' 2025 slate at the beginning of January. However, the true sign of a Walter Presents series officially being a
BritBox
The routine acceptance of LGBTQ+ presenting/identifying people in Western society is a relatively recent phenomenon. The U.S. and U.K. legalizing marriage for all is barely a decade old; the U.K.'s Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act went into effect in March 2014, the U.S. Supreme
PBS
There are very few things one can count on in the television landscape, especially when it comes to British TV. There will always eventually be a new season of Doctor Who, for example (even if it takes a decade or two). The BBC will ask if you have a television
Movies
Guy Ritchie's attempt to resuscitate his would-be British Upperclass Gangster Film Franchise, The Gentlemen, has gone far better than anyone could have imagined. The original film (with the same name) debuted at the end of 2019 in the U.K.; there were high hopes for it to land
BBC
Sir David Attenborough is the most famous naturalist in the world, but before 1979, he was just another upper-class Brit who discovered the power of television by being in the right place at the right time. That final year of the 1970s marked the release of Attenborough's seminal
PBS
Wolf Hall originally aired on PBS in 2015, during the year that saw the rise of the phrases "Prestige TV" and "Peak TV." For those unaware, "Peak TV" is a phrase coined by FX CEO John Landgraf to describe the current era of programming
Netflix
Over on the regular edition of The Great British Baking Show, a crisis is brewing, as the series has now turned out two extremely mediocre winners in a row, and all because judge Paul Hollywood can't just let the series play out without meddling. (Meanwhile, Prue Leith hints
BritBox
Few things are as dependable in life. Death, Taxes, and Father Brown arriving in January of the new year, and three of them. The Mark Williams-starring series based on the early 1900s short stories by G. K. Chesterton has been debuting in January on the BBC since it first launched
Paramount+
It was early October 2024 when Deadline first reported that Guy Ritchie had signed on to a new project at Showtime, which would stream on Paramount+ with Showtime. Referred to as The Associate, the film would be a crime thriller, and Deadline had heard that Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Helen
BritBox
It's been a hot minute since we heard from Gavin & Stacey, one of the few British Comedies from the late aughts that actually made inroads in the U.S. when it aired on BBC America. The sitcom was created and written by James Corden and Ruth Jones,
Netflix
Netflix announced it had signed a deal with Stephen Graham for his next "real-time, continuous take" series not long after the streaming service picked up Boiling Point, the four-part series based on the pandemic hit film of the same name. It was part of a slew of announcements
Apple TV
Charles Dickens isn't credited with inventing the amnesia trope in literature. However, his 1859 A Tale of Two Cities popularized it with the character of Lucie Manette, whose traumatic memory loss serves as a key plot device in the narrative. A century and a half later, it'