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.
BBC
When Mum, starring Lesley Manville, arrived in the mid-2010s, it was hailed as a triumph, a slice of real-life series that managed to start as an excellent study in family and end with a magnificent romance in everyday life. Writer Stefan Golaszewski, who created the series, walked away with a
Netflix
Despite cratering in the early 2010s, romantic comedies have been making a comeback, especially on streaming services, where they provide comfort viewing for those who need to believe in romance again because they've had their heart broken or just need a night on the couch eating chocolates and
HBO & HBO Max
It feels rather anticlimactic to announce that Richard Gadd has cast Richard Gadd in the lead role of the latest Richard Gadd series, his first follow-up to the excruciating Baby Reindeer that Netflix clearly thought no one would watch. But that's the headline for the latest update on
Movies
Daniel Craig initially rose to prominence as Joe Pitt in the 1993 National Theater production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, the most seminal theatrical work of the last fifty years. While his career has gone in other directions since, including a 15-year stint playing the lead in
Netflix
Netflix initially stumbled into success with U.K. audiences on New Year's Day in 2022, when the streaming service released its miniseries adaptation of Harlan Coben's Stay Close on New Year's Eve 2021 and discovered half of the U.K. had tuned in to
PBS
The holidays are officially here, and not just because this is the week of American Thanksgiving. Call the Midwife's production studio, Neal Street, took to social media to announce the conclusion of filming the 2024 Christmas special and Season 15. For U.K. and U.S. viewers alike,
PBS
Much like William Shakespeare's history plays, Wolf Hall takes history (in this case, history that happened just before Shakespeare's time) and retells it via the sensibilities of modern authors. However, much like plays like Julius Caesar and The Henriad, the dramatic liberties novelist Hillary Mantel and
Acorn TV
Acorn TV is prepping more cozy crime shows to keep viewers warm for 2025. Darby & Joan, the Australian-set odd couple series that premiered in 2022, starring British actor Greta Scacchi (Emma) as Joan Kirkhope and Australian Bryan Brown (Caught) as Jack Darby, is back for another set of adventures,
Netflix
It's always hard to judge a new series before it debuts. Case in point: Netflix's forthcoming Black Doves, first confirmed in mid-2023. The series was initially presented as a Keira Knightley (Pride & Prejudice) vehicle, a big-budget thriller drawing the big-screen star back to television. Then
Netflix
Before we break down this week's semifinal episode of The Great British Baking Show (which went exactly as most suspected), I was to talk about Paul Hollywood. (Yes, again.) The show's 100lb gorilla continues to be the production's most significant problem, not just because
BBC
One of the U.K.’s long-standing traditions is telling ghost stories at Christmas. The most famous, of course, is A Christmas Carol, in which a rich man is terrorized into paying his staff a living wage. However, Dickens was merely following a tradition older than he was; Victorian writers
Netflix
Even though it was apparent when Netflix confirmed Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl would debut on New Year's Weekend that the film would first drop on the BBC on Christmas Day, Auntie Beeb did not outright confirm it at the time. Instead, the British Broadcaster waited until