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
Acorn TV is on a bit of a roll. In 2024, it released a new season of nearly every fan favorite on the roster, from Harry Wild to My Life is Murder to Whitstable Pearl. Now, on the heels of Inspector Ellis' debut, the streaming service has announced it
Paramount+
With less than a month until it debuts, the Paramount+/Showtime spy series The Agency is still announcing cast members as it races to complete filming. Starring Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) and Jodie Turner-Smith (Anne Boleyn), this English-language remake of the French series The Bureau (Le Bureau des
PBS
ITV announced it was commissioning Ridley in June 2021, less than a month after Line of Duty's sixth season concluded. At the time, most viewers assumed Line of Duty Season 7 would still be along in a year or so and didn't think twice about it.
PBS
If the first episode of Wolf Hall was setting up a giant chess board for the Great Game to play out, this week, the power players begin to make their moves. Whereas last week spent an hour slowly building to the arrival of the main focus of our tale, Anne
Movies
The 2024 American Film Market in Las Vegas begins November 5, when everyone's attention will be focused elsewhere, but that doesn't mean the deals that ensure next year's movie productions can start filming aren't going to be struggling to find investors. This
Netflix
The last couple of theme weeks on The Great British Baking Show initially caught my attention because they followed a similar pattern to the previous year, not just because it felt deliberate, but because Season 14 marked the series "changing up" the themes used previously due to the
Now Stream This
Let's talk turkey about November programming in the U.S., especially the schedule vis a vis linear networks and streaming services. The penultimate month of the year was always complex for TV broadcast networks, which had to work around Thanksgiving in America, and only America. That means streamers
PBS
The BBC has announced it will be a double helping of Christmas joy for 2024, as it has been revealed the broadcaster's commission for the Call The Midwife Festival Special is a two-part double episode surprise. One of the most popular entries to the yearly special lineup during
Netflix
Since Netflix first announced the Keira Knightley series Black Doves, in which she would play an assassin/spy, it was apparent the streaming service saw the series as the spiritual heir to The Crown. It's quite a tellingly placed follow-up, taking one of the most ambitious concepts from
PBS
The final two months of the year are upon us, and with them, the conclusion of PBS' Fall lineup of Sunday shows. While both Moonflower Murders and Van der Valk Season 4 ended in October, Ridley Season 2 still had another episode to go, taking it into the top
Netflix
The highly anticipated Peaky Blinders movie started filming in September 2024, as Netflix announced that some significant A-list actors will join star Cillian Murphy as the series transfers to the big screen. Rebecca Ferguson (Dune), Barry Keoghan (Saltburn), and Tim Roth (Rob Roy) were all confirmed as joining the film,
Disney/Hulu
The tradition of families gathering around the telly at Christmas in the U.K. to watch Christmas specials from their favorite series has been going on since the early 1980s; however, it wasn't until the 2005 reboot of Doctor Who that it gained enough cultural cache to earn