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 and Channel 5 have finally set a release date for the first season of Inspector Ellis, or Ellis, as it's called in the U.K. (American TV has a tradition of adding the "Inspector" to these sorts of show titles; think ITV's
Sundance Now
Nicole Kidman first discussed adapting Liane Moriarty's The Last Anniversary in 2019, near the end of the pre-pandemic era. She was coming off the success of Big Little Lies, based on Moriarty's best-selling novel, followed by the whodunit thriller The Undoing, both of which aired/streamed
Netflix
Wallace & Gromit: Vengence Most Fowl finally has a release date in the U.S., and it's only going to be a short wait for fans between the film's premiere in the U.K. and debuting across the rest of the world. As you may recall,
BritBox
Rumors have swirled since June 2024 about a possible reboot of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. It took until October, but the BBC and BritBox have finally released an update. The new series, Lynley, is officially heading to TV in 2025 as production begins in Ireland. Based on the Lynley Mysteries
BritBox
It's been about a month since Trigger Point Season 2 concluded on BritBox, the second season to stream on the niche British streaming service after Season 1 arrived in early 2024. Season 1 was imported directly from where it has been lost on Peacock since 2021; Season 2
Apple TV
Apple TV+ continues to ride the success of Slow Horses, which has been commissioned to trot out to a six-episode Season 6 less than a week after the Season 4 finale. (Season 5 was greenlit in January 2024, a few days after the conclusion of Season 3.) Based on the
Netflix
Initially commissioned in the wake of The Crown's final season, Netflix's newest prestige British series, Black Doves, is going to get red blood all over Netflix's white Christmas come December 2024, if the new images are anything to go by. Starring topline A-listers Keira
Disney/Hulu
Production on the first official Doctor Who spinoff since the ill-fated (and very forgettable) Class attempted to create a Doctorless Doctor Who in the mid-2010s kicked off at the end of August 2024 with a splashy A-list roster. The five-episode limited series (which should not be confused with the other
Acorn TV
The first modern classic film my mother and I ever agreed on was Clueless, the 1995 Alicia Silverstone film in which she plays Cher, a modern-day version of Jane Austen's classic heroine, Emma. The American-born actor recently made a career comeback after dropping off the radar for a
Netflix
I will be the first to say that, though it took Channel 4 three tries before they got there, Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond are the network's answer to Sue & Mel during the BBC years of The Great British Baking Show. Sure, the Barbie opening was a
Netflix
C'mon everyone, let's say it together: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. For decades, said single man in possession of that fortune and wife-to-be has been defined by one
BritBox
The Shaun Evans-Anna Maxwell Martin thriller Until I Kill You has finally landed a streaming home in America only days after ITV dropped the official trailer. As I predicted almost a year ago, upon writing up the series' first images, the limited series will stream on BritBox in the