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.
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Most people think of June as the end of the year or the end of a season, mainly due to a dozen years of mass public education which runs from September until the middle of June. But in the world of TV, June is not the end, it is the
Starz
Happy World Outlander Day to all who celebrate. For the Outlander faithful, the past few years have been hard, as Seasons 7 and 8 slowly dribble out, the former cleaved into two parts, the latter most likely to do the same. (And that's not even beginning to consider
BritBox
Cozy crime series have been the bread and butter of niche streaming services like BritBox and Acorn TV since they launched in the 2010s. But BritBox, which began as a joint project between ITV and the BBC to keep Americans from pirating iPlayer, has changed course since the BBC bought
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Rumors have been circulating for a while that director Guy Ritchie would be returning to his feature film world of Sherlock Holmes, especially since the star of his film series, Robert Downey Jr., gave an interview talking about how the script got caught in development hell after the success of
PBS
It's been about a week since the RadioTimes first dropped an exclusive look at Moonflower Murders (sadly unembeddable for the rest of us, but you can watch it here). Those of us who keep an eye on such things knew when it arrived over the weekend that there
AMC/AMC+
Showtrial made a huge splash when it debuted in the fall of 2021 on the BBC. The five-part series had a relatively simple premise: every few years, a new "Crime of the Century" grips the nation, so instead of waiting for the next major trial to hit the
Acorn TV
It's been nearly a year since The Chelsea Detective Season 2 debuted on Acorn TV, and since then, one of the more popular questions we've gotten is people searching for word on a third season. While it took a long time to get here, AMC Networks
PBS
Summer technically doesn't officially start until mid-June, but in the world of television, the moment the Emmy eligibility window closes on May 31, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. PT, it might as well be the equinox, and the end of school rolled into one. It's
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Bridgerton may be the show on everyone’s lips, but for the couples who have already coupled up, it’s merely a stepping stone to the next project. Season 1’s Regé-Jean Page has already left to make films, and Phoebe Dynevor is also headlining other Netflix series. Season 2’
BBC
It's been a few months since Lindsey Salt announced that she was greenlighting a dozen dramas for the BBC's 2024-2025 season. Since then, the only show that's had any movement was the solo renewal of the batch, Blue Lights. But with the summer filming
BritBox
The passing of Bernard Hill in May 2024 was tragic timing, as the late actor had only just begun to emerge from a self-imposed retirement he'd taken in 2016. Part of what had drawn the actor to start working again was a script he'd received, offering
Acorn TV
PBS may crow over Endeavour running ten years or Grantchester rounding to Season 9, but real ones know that the true long-running cozy crime series isn't official until it's gone well into the double digits, like Death in Paradise, Father Brown, or Vera. Even so, those