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.
Acorn TV
The Acorn TV series Hidden Assets is one of those crime shows that has flown under the radar in America, and with good reason. The Irish-Belgian RTE co-production series stands out as odd among the cozy crime drama world's offerings. There's no small village; everyone is
Netflix
When The Great British Baking Show moved house from BBC One to Channel 4 after its seventh season (labeled Season 4 by PBS), the contract was for a guaranteed three seasons. This was in keeping with the same structure the show had done with the BBC. After the show'
Netflix
For the second year running, The Great British Baking Show has decided that "Dessert Week" should be the last theme before the Quarterfinal round. Like Pastry Week, "Desserts" is a bit of a grab-bag theme, encompassing the kind of baking that doesn't fit neatly
Movies
It's been just over a year since Bleeker Street picked up the rights to Fackham Hall during the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The movie, a spoof of Downton Abbey and other hit period dramas, arrived at the festival market with four cast members attached to star: Hero
BBC
When Death in Paradise debuted in 2011, it was just supposed to be a cute little Ben Miller (Professor T) vehicle in which he played DI Richard Poole, a fish-out-of-water, pale-faced, stuffy white colonialist who crankily hated living in a relaxing paradise. But life imitating art turned out to be
Movies
It took a good decade, but the fantasy genre craze finally reached a natural endpoint. Much like the precipitous drop in moviegoers seeing superhero films, there's a point when too many streaming services have too many fantasy adaptations of novels, and audiences start gravitating to what they haven&
BritBox
David Mitchell's newest series, the “case-of-the-week mystery-crime-comedy-drama” Ludwig was first announced at the top of 2024, with the arrival of the first image from the series. One half of the legendary comedy team with Robert Webb, Mitchell stars as the titular character John "Ludwig" Taylor, a
BritBox
The BBC became the first company to broadcast television programs regularly in 1936, and like everything else the British do, it made sure to create some heirlooms along the way. The BBC's oldest series, The Lord Mayor's Show, launched less than a year later, and 88
BBC America
It's been a rough year. Perhaps not as rough as some I've lived through (2004 and 2014 would like a word), but still deeply difficult. Those previous times when I would wake up at 1 am with no hope of more, I'd put on
Netflix
People underestimated Netflix when it started making original programming because they mistook the streaming service for wanting to be HBO (or, at the time, AMC or FX). However, from the beginning, Netflix's goal was to replace TV. Not just TV in the U.S., but in every country;
BritBox
Filming is underway for the next big collaboration between ITV and BritBox International, a crime thriller called Code of Silence. ITV initially commissioned the series in mid-2023 for its ITVX streaming service; BritBox boarded the project sometime between that initial announcement and the beginning of filming in October 2024, guaranteeing
Disney/Hulu
Like most U.K. shows that Hulu picks up on its own without the marketing of Disney+, Am I Being Unreasonable? did not make much of an impact when it debuted in 2023. The title didn't help; named after the British version of Reddit's AITA advice