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
As we begin the second installment of this season's Unforgotten, it's worth remembering that this series creates characters with troubled, ugly pasts. It's supposed to help the audience maintain a distance, making it easier to accept when a case from 20 or 40 years
PBS
The cooler air is already heading this way, and half the kids I know are back in school; it must be time for September to roll in and the fleeting month the American South gets to call autumn to begin. However, due to an embarrassment of riches, local PBS stations
Apple TV
It speaks volumes about how short a time Apple TV+ has existed as a streaming service that Trying, which is heading into its fifth season, is one of the service's longest-running shows. But more importantly, it's also a reminder of how little it needs production partners
Movies
Christmas creep is a scourge, one that has only worsened over time. It used to be that the issue was one limited to stores, as retailers pushed the shopping season back practically into September. But the advent of streaming has opened up a whole new subset of Christmas Creep on
MGM+
Knowing you're going to have to live through something is one thing; actually keeping your temper in check when you're experiencing it is quite another. Even before Peak TV finally started to ebb, it was clear that the multiple streaming services currently in existence would not
ITV
The News of the World scandal was barely a blip on Americans' radar when it broke in the middle of the summer in 2011. Aside from the revelation that the Murdoch-owned paper had tapped the phones of royalty for years, an angle that resonated here due to the clear
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Making television shows and movies is always a crapshoot. You can have all the best actors, scripts, sets, and directors, but everything can easily slide sideways if the wrong executive producer gets their way, or a director and actor have very different ideas. Sometimes a show fails just because people
BritBox
One of the brightest spots of the 2020s has been the uptick in British cozy crime shows on American streaming services. Thus far in 2025, it has been an embarrassment of riches on both Acorn TV and BritBox over the last five months, including (but not limited to) Ludwig, Art
Netflix
Ruth Ware's The Woman in Cabin 10 was not her debut novel; that honor goes to In a Dark, Dark Wood, which she published in 2015. However, it wasn't until Cabin 10, her second novel published a year later, that the British author broke out, with
Paramount+
One of the unsung comedies of the BBC's current lineup, Dreaming Whilst Black, is heading back to the small screen for Season 2 before the end of 2025. The screamingly funny half-hour comedy hails from series co-creator Adjani Salmon, who originally launched it as a web series in
Movies
It's been over 400 years since playwright William Shakespeare posthumously broke big in 1623 with the "First Folio," after spending his entire life as a minor homegrown English celebrity. In that time, partly thanks to the British Empire and colonialism, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Movies
It is rare for a franchise to conclude in the 21st century, when the landscape is heavily marked by reboots, revivals, and reimaginings of older titles. It's not just shows like The Forsytes remaking The Forsyte Saga for a new century, or boyish comedy All Creatures Great &