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.
AMC/AMC+
Australia's leading streaming service, Stan, initially commissioned Black Snow as a standalone miniseries in 2022, with Travis Finnel (Dune: Prophecy) attached to lead the crime drama as Detective James Cormack. Billed as a "coming-of-age whodunit," Season 1 focused on a 1990s-era small-town murder that rocked North
HBO & HBO Max
One of the more difficult decisions Telly Visions has to make is what constitutes a British series and what doesn't. This didn't use to be nearly so tricky: it was created by the BBC and ran on PBS. British. It didn't? Probably not British.
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Ahead of The Rig's initial debut on Amazon Prime Video in January 2023, series creator David Macpherson explained the series as one that was inspired by and acknowledges just how little we know about the waters of our own planet. "The deep ocean contains over 95% of
Apple TV
Apple TV+ will extend its current run of streaming one British series a month into 2025. Its latest, Prime Target, was first announced just under a year ago, in February 2024; a good old-fashioned thriller where a scholar on the verge of a global-level breakthrough finds himself being pursued by
PBS
Welcome to Wolf Hall, the world of 16th-century politics and intrigue. It is 1529, and the issue of King Henry VIII's first marriage is coming to a head. And, as the opening placard tells us, the king is not a forgiving man. Cromwell: The rumor is the king
Netflix
The adaptation of Ruth Ware's best-selling 2016 novel, The Woman in Cabin 10, is finally in production. Netflix first announced it was greenlighting the feature film in May 2024, and its newest A-list British star, Keira Knightley, who was already set to star in the upcoming Black Doves
ITV
ITV has released the first images from the newest Martin Clunes thriller, Out There, which is coming to the U.K. network in time for the 2024 Holidays. Like the BBC, which commissions Christmas-themed episodes from its most popular series like Doctor Who, and high-profile specials like its yearly Agatha
Netflix
It's Pastry Week in the tent as The Great British Baking Show returns on a rainy day, with the bakers bundled up against the chill. This is notably the second time in a row the series has put Pastry Week smack dab in the middle of the season.
HBO & HBO Max
In the waning days of AT&T’s ownership of Warner Media, as behind the scenes, the company was prepping to merge with Discovery Communications, HBO went into “greenlight everything” mode. Those who were intimately familiar with Discovery’s head, David Zaslav, already knew what the rest of us
BritBox
ITV is wrapping up Vera with Season 14, ending the series based on the Ann Cleeves novels after fifteen years. But over on the BBC, the other Cleeves adaptation, Shetland, is still going strong despite having a rough few years since the pandemic hit. Filming delays pushed the series, which
Paramount+
Paramount+ and Showtime have officially confirmed that their newest show, The Agency, will arrive before the end of 2024. Initially announced in early 2023 under the title The Department, the series is an English-language remake of the French hit The Bureau, and was initially billed as the successor to Showtime&
BritBox
Most of the time, the BBC and ITV make producing a hit police procedural look easy. Cast a few handsome white men as emotionally troubled mid-level cops, and then force them to confront whatever version of the world you subscribe to, whether it's the AC-12 in Line of