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.
HBO & HBO Max
The Gilded Age is staffing up again, but this time, it's being more selective about who it's bringing on board. Fans of the series are pretty aware of the show's sprawling (and we do mean sprawling) cast. Downton Abbey had a large ensemble for
Apple TV
Fans of Luther may be sweating the return of the brown jacket and red tie, but over on Apple TV+, Idris Elba is already back in action as filming gets underway for the second season of Hijack. Plot details for the second season are being kept tightly under wraps, which
BritBox
One of the few Eagle Eye Drama series that isn't on PBS, Suspect, the remake of the Danish hit Forhøret (Face to Face), is preparing to return for a second season. The first season, which debuted on BritBox at the end of 2022, starred James Nesbitt (Bloodlands) as
Channel 4
James Graham's Sherwood was one of the best shows anywhere on TV in 2022. An unflinching portrayal of what Margaret Thatcher's administration was allowed to do to the working classes to break the miner's strike and sow acrimony between those who could unite against
Netflix
Just because the superhero bubble has burst doesn't mean the genre is dead; it just means that if you're going to make a film or TV series that centers on power with superhuman powers, it needs to have something new to say. That's not
Peacock
It really was just a matter of time before streaming TV took the British-ish fantasy genre, hyper-fueled by Game of Thrones' smashing success, to the logical endpoint and circled back to the original British-accented fantasy trope that once dominated the big-budget landscape in feature films: the Sword-and-Sandal epic. Once
Music
There are two kinds of hit TV shows in the streaming landscape: Those that garner large audiences by delivering precisely what an audience expects without providing anything new or adding anything to the conversation and those that change the course of the entertainment waters. There is nothing wrong with the
Netflix
It was the end of March when we first reported that Netflix was stepping up from doing modern Agatha Christie-style mystery knock-offs like the Knives Out mystery series of films, and were getting into the real-deal Christie works, aiming to out-BBC the BBC by doing its own limited series of
PBS
Once upon a time, in a little town called Grantchester in 1954, a vicar named Sidney Chambers (James Norton) had just finished officiating a funeral when he was asked to look into the death to see if it was really a suicide. His investigation brought him face-to-face with the local
BritBox
The BBC has finally released the first images for the second season of Sherwood. The series may sound like a period piece about Robin Hood, but the 2022 critical darling was anything but. It presented itself as a true-crime mystery based on a pair of murders that occurred in the
Netflix
It's a Blue Monday at Netflix, as the streaming service takes the opportunity between Bridgerton Season 3 installments to release the trailer for its next period-piece teenage sex romp, The Decameron. Loosely based (and I mean very loosely based) on the 14th-century Italian short-story collection of the same
BritBox
It is a truth universally acknowledged that of the series that debuted on PBS’ Mystery! in the 1980s, three are considered the defining adaptations of iconic British sleuths: Jeremy Brett in Sherlock Holmes, Joan Hickson in Miss Marple, and David Suchet in Poirot, which eventually was rebranded as Agatha Christie’