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.
Netflix
Netflix initially announced it was picking up Legends, the newest pitch for a thriller based on one of the U.K.'s high-profile heists from writer Neil Forsyth, in August 2024. Forsyth was coming off a major hit in the U.K.; his critically adored six-part, Hugh
HBO & HBO Max
It's been a long and arduous journey for the five-part limited series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, based on Australian writer Richard Flanagan's best-selling novel. Initially announced in 2018, the project was one of the few stuck in multiple-year pandemic-induced
BritBox
BritBox and ITV have released a selection of first-look images from the first season of the new crime thriller Code of Silence. First announced in mid-2024, the groundbreaking series may sound like a middle-of-the-road spy caper, but the "Silence" in the title refers
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Netflix doesn't have a singular brand like Disney+; there's no programming throughline other than "if we throw it against the wall and it sticks, we probably make two more seasons!" While this makes marketing nebulous, it does mean the streaming service has accidentally produced
BritBox
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I did not hear the word "peri-menopause" until I was already north of 35; since crossing the invisible boundary into early cronehood, all of these symptoms no one ever bothered to mention suddenly started showing
Acorn TV
Acorn TV has become the home of cozy crime series of all sorts. However, unlike the shows on BritBox, it tends to lean into shows that aren't set in the U.K. There are multiple shows where characters solve crimes in New Zealand and Australia, the Republic of
PBS
Long-time public television fans will probably have picked up by now that, no matter what happens in a given year, there is always one guaranteed Shakespeare production that airs on Great Performances in May as the TV season draws close. Most years, it comes via a broadcast of whatever
HBO & HBO Max
It took three seasons and the addition of a well-known HBO star, but the undermarketed, critically adored series Industry finally broke out in the U.S. after existing for two seasons as a smash hit in the U.K. Set in the world of high finance, the series exists
BBC
The BBC has officially set a premiere date for the high-profile awards-bait series This City Is Ours, one of the primary titles the British Broadcaster commissioned in early 2024 along with such other ambitious projects like a filmed version of the hit West End stage production Dear England
PBS
Since the series' debut in 2012, Call the Midwife has been the gold standard of ensemble period pieces. It ushered in a new era of cooperation between the BBC and PBS, where a BBC show was allowed to premiere the same day on PBS as it did in the
Disney/Hulu
From the outside, Big Boys looks like another laddish comedy about odd couple roommates (one's straight, one's gay) becoming BFFs at uni, and their three-year journey through the rights of passage the collegiate years entail. Set in the mid-2010s, it's also a
PBS
Coverage of the Channel 5 rebrand rollout on March 12, 2025, focused heavily on the U.K. network's original offerings like The Madame Blanc Mysteries and the mass import of Paramount+ series that the streaming service is picking up along with the merging of linear Channel 5 and