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
Signora Volpe returns to Acorn TV for Season 2 at the end of July 2024; with only a couple of weeks until its return, the streaming service has officially released the trailer. The cozy crime series stars Emilia Fox (Silent Witness) as Sylvia Fox, an ex-MI-6 agent failing in her
Apple TV
A few family films from the 1980s seem impossible to be made or remade today. Ridley Scott's Legend, for example, featuring Tim Curry on two-foot stilts, is a camp classic impossible to recapture; The Princess Bride is so perfect that a remake would be blasphemy. Then there are
PBS
Masterpiece's Van der Valk, ITV's remake of the 1970s era original starring Barry Foster, has never been a significant headliner series. The initial Dutch series was itself an oddity; it was one of the few non-BBC shows from the 1970s that hit big. (The theme song
BritBox
It has been a very long minute since we last heard anything about Karen Pirie, the series based on Val McDermid's mystery novel series of the same name. Though McDermid's books are no stranger to TV (Karen Pirie is the fourth adaptation from her work), ITV
BritBox
If there's one thing cozy crime shows and endless Agatha Christie adaptations have taught us, it's that anyone can solve crimes. From English professors to vicars, priests and nuns, antique dealers, and cab drivers, the list is endless. This bizarre insistence on having random people solve
Apple TV
Hitch up your skirts and saddle your ponies; Dick Turpin rides at... well, not dawn; he's a man who likes breakfast and also travels during reasonable hours. However, despite his inability to be an early bird (who wants to eat worms anyway?), the entirely SEO-unfriendly The Completely Made-Up
Movies
It made headlines in June 2024 when Sir Ian McKellen fell off the edge of the stage toward the end of one of his final four-hour performances of The Player King, a retelling of Shakespeare's Henry IV plays as a single show. The actor, who is in the
HBO & HBO Max
The Max streaming debacle will one day be featured in classrooms as a case study of every misstep made in the entertainment world during the transition from linear cable television to digital streaming. However, few shows have suffered quite so severely during this era as Industry, the British series that,
Netflix
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman was a triumph for Netflix in filming the unfilmable when the first season arrived in the summer of 2022. While the series itself falls squarely in the "British-ish" fantasy category along with shows like House of the Dragon and Lord of the
Now Stream This
Happy July, everyone! Summer has officially rolled in, and with it, the most dramatic of weekends: July 4th. No, I'm not talking about hot dogs, fireworks, beaches, and Independence Day concerts on the National Mall broadcast by your local PBS stations. I'm talking about The Election.
Netflix
Netflix has announced the start of filming for Lisa McGee's follow-up series to her hit show Derry Girls, How to Get To Heaven From Belfast. The series was initially announced in September 2023 as a Channel 4 project (the same network that produced Derry Girls), but with budget
PBS
Grantchester has a thing about vicars and their vehicles. Sidney had the bicycle, Will had the motorbike, and now here comes our newest Rev Alphy Kotteram (Rishi Nair) rolling up to the front door in a little red roadster. It doesn't make any of what transpires next any