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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No matter what TV critics tell you, we really don't know anything about why a show hits. We can guess and extrapolate data; if we're reporters for certain newspapers, we can go find a diner in the middle of nowhere and ask folks what they watch
Movies
Downton Abbey is revving up for one more round of storytelling on the big screen, but after this, the story is done. Thus proclaims the third movie's new title, Downton Abbey: The Grande Finale, revealed by Focus Features along with the poster key art for the film. The
BritBox
The 2024-2025 TV season is quickly wrapping up, as the next few weeks will be the debuts of all sorts of shows looking for a little awards love, at least here in the States. The Emmy Awards, the U.S.' official national television honors, are one of the
Paramount+
The rush to get MobLand out by the end of March so that the finale would air before the 2024-2025 Emmy nominations eligibility period ended on June 1 has been edging on desperate. No one wants to admit defeat in the streaming wars, nor do they want to be
AMC/AMC+
Most people know a pair of best friends who might as well be siblings, even if they've never been lucky enough to be in that sort of friendship in their lives. However, it's a rare duo who can take that friendship and turn it into an
Netflix
Not that round numbers are more meaningful milestones than prime numbers, but it speaks to how many projects have been delayed (and for how long) that in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Five, two docudramas are reviving the story of Pan Am 103, based on the
Acorn TV
This week's big annual event in Europe for the television crowd is called "Series Mania." Initially held in Paris, the yearly event has been held in Lille since 2016. Like most events of this type, the goal is to get the most promising pilots from around
Disney/Hulu
Whether you’re calling it Season 2, Season 15, or Season 41, a new season of Doctor Who by any numbering system would be just as eagerly anticipated. Tidbits about the upcoming season have been trickling out since Season 1 ended in June 2024. The rechristened Season 1 was an
BritBox
When The Cleaner first debuted in 2021, the satirical comedy crime series was looked at askance by critics who expected it to lean into body humor and gore since the premise was "Chatty Bloke Who Scrubs Up Murder Scenes Accidentally Solves Crimes." However, the series — conceived of and
Sundance Now
Taking a show that was initially planned to be a one-and-done limited series and renewing it for Season 2 after it becomes a massive hit is not a pattern inherent to HBO, though it might sometimes feel that way. The BBC does it all the time; recent examples
BritBox
The success of Unforgotten was far from assured when writer Chris Lang first penned the cold case series in 2015 after spending two decades mostly writing on ITV shows created by other people. Though the success of the series keeps building despite significant casting turnover, Lang has yet to replicate
Acorn TV
Acorn TV's flagship hit series, Harry Wild, has set a return date for 2025. The series has become the hit series for Acorn TV and a "proof of concept" (alongside My Life Is Murder) that the current formula the streaming service has hit on to make