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
Anglophiles joke that it sometimes feels like there are only 100 or so British actors, and every British TV series just arranges them into different configurations. That's not precisely true; it's more that for decades, the projects that found their way across the pond were on
BritBox
If it's Christmas, it's time to check in with the Christians, and there's no Christian more entertaining or crime-solving than Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson), the titular detective of Father Brown spinoff Sister Boniface Mysteries. The good Vespa-riding nun who stole everyone's heart
Disney/Hulu
There are two things I dislike about the current television landscape more than anything: When a great show winds up on a platform nobody watches (looks at Rogue Heroes on MGM+), and when a great show lands on a platform everybody watches, but the platform doesn't bother to
Paramount+
You can fool enough of the people for long enough that a lousy series can get a second season. The Agency airs on the utterly unwieldy platform of "Paramount+ with Showtime," which means it does not air on Showtime or Paramount+, but if you subscribe to both, you
MGM+
This is a PSA to all the Peaky Blinders fans out there who are sadly waiting for Netflix to bring them the movie sequel sometime in 2025. May I suggest turning your attention to MGM+? I know, you probably aren't sure which streaming service that is, if you&
BritBox
BritBox has settled in for the holidays with several "Festive Specials" (as they're called in the U.K.) populating the calendar for the back half of the month. The specials will begin arriving on December 17, 2024, starting with the new Sister Boniface Mysteries Christmas episode.
Movies
The Golden Globe nominations for the calendar year 2024 are out, and several upcoming arrivals, including The Brutalist, have already received multiple nominations. The film arrives in the U.S. in time for Christmas Week. However, it has already garnered stellar reviews from its Venice International Film Festival debut, taking
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
The pandemic delays that upended filming for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon led to a head-to-head, as Amazon and HBO released Season 1 of each within a week of each other in 2022, and then their respective Season 2 back-to-back earlier in
Disney/Hulu
There's been a spate of worrying across the pond about the state of the TV comedy. There's a sense among those at the BBC that critics haven't given sitcoms their propers in quite a while, with fears that comedy could become an endangered form
BritBox
The UKTV series I, Jack Wright was initially announced in early 2024. Described as "a propulsive, darkly comic and moving murder mystery family drama, which offers many twists and turns as one family deals with treachery and hidden agendas from all involved," it is only the second stand-alone
Netflix
The holidays are a time when TV networks know viewers will tune in; it's not like people want to watch a Christmas Tree lighting in mid-January! However, that problem is exactly what Netflix has regarding The Great British Baking Show. The 60-hour wait from Tuesday at 8 p.
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Amazon Studio's Scottish series, The Rig, will return to Prime Video with Season 2 just in time for hangover viewing. The series, which initially debuted the first weekend of January 2023, returns almost exactly two years later, and sadly, it's still not safe to get back