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.
PBS
PBS' newest addition to the period drama lineup, Funny Woman (based on the novel Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, with the title altered for obvious reasons), was commissioned for a Season 2 by producer Sky around the same time it landed an American distributor. As luck would have it,
PBS
It's been nearly two years since Vienna Blood Season 3 debuted on PBS in January 2023. The series, based on the Max Liebermann novels by Frank Tallis, has been an on-again/off-again wintertime mystery series for public television, originally debuting Season 1 in January 2020, only to have
HBO & HBO Max
During the 2010s, the Game of Thrones season finales were infamous among TV reporters as HBO's big moment to drop the first looks at the other major series heading to the network in the months to come. House of the Dragon may never reach the heights of the
PBS
The trend of advancing a period piece series forward one year per season was not new when Call The Midwife began using it over a decade ago, but the ubiquity of the BBC's hit —which started in the late 1950s with Season 1 and will now cross in
Sundance Now
When TV drama series focus on hot-button issues, there is a tendency to distill things into a simple formula. One side is Good, the other Bad; we are supposed to root for the former. Even amid prestige TV's height, with anti-heroes all the rage, someone is unmasked as
Apple TV
Apple TV+ recently admitted it would actually start attempting to reign in the massive budgets for its original content after a year that saw high-priced projects like Masters of the Air and Fly Me To The Moon barely register, while the long-delayed second season of Severence practically turned into a
Now Stream This
It's August, and it is miserably hot here in the Northern Hemisphere. August is always miserably hot in most of America, but this year seems worse than usual, perhaps because we keep breaking records for the hottest days ever recorded on the planet. This is the time to
Acorn TV
Acorn TV has officially confirmed that fan-favorite breakout hit Harry Wild will return for a fourth season. The niche streaming service, which is far and away AMC Network’s most-watched service of its little federation of offerings, made the announcement with the release of a pair of photos marking the
PBS
The dog days of August are upon us, and while streaming has mostly changed the TV season so that no one takes summers off anymore, PBS is still a linear network at heart, and most of its shows run on the old September-May TV season, with a set of mysteries
Tubi
Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and the like need to watch out, as FAST streamers are coming up behind them quickly. Tubi, the Free Ad-Supported TV streaming app, once treated like the tiny afterthought in a much larger race to the top by large-scale exclusive content streamers, has been eating the lunches
BritBox
Avoidance, the comedy from Romesh Ranganathan (Staged), returns to BritBox with Season 2 at the end of the summer for another chance to catch on here in the U.S. Ranganathan, who hosted the TV BAFTAs on BritBox earlier in 2024 and is well known for his appearances on panel
Peacock
It took four years, but streaming service Peacock is finally pulling off its first win since launching in 2020. NBC Universal's streaming service was initially planned to launch on the back of the 2020 Olympics, but the pandemic nixed that, possibly for the better, as when the games