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.
BritBox
The BBC's new cop dramady, Blue Lights, was a surprise hit when it debuted in the U.K. in 2023. Set in the Belfast frontline response unit, the series' first order of business was always going to have to square convincing its audiences to watch a piece
FX
Welcome to Wrexham Season 3 has just crossed the halfway mark of a much shorter third season (eight episodes, down from the dozen and half or so of the first two seasons), but fans have no worries about there being more. Even before Season 3 arrived, the Wrexham team clinched
Movies
Tom Brittney's final episodes on Grantchester are due to start airing on PBS when Season 9 debuts in mid-June. However, the actor hasn't been sitting still since deciding his time as the show's resident Hot Priest was up. First, he launched a production company
AMC/AMC+
Considering that Sir David Attenborough's filmography extends back 72 years, starting in 1952, and 2024 marks his 70th year presenting since his first TV appearance in 1954's Zoo Quest on the BBC, the decision to look back on a series he made a mere 20 years
HBO & HBO Max
Over the years, quite a few British shows on HBO have been produced in conjunction with the BBC, airing here on Sundays and in the U.K. on Mondays. The earliest, arguably most famous, was Rome, back in 2005, but Gentleman Jack was also one, as was His Dark Materials
Movies
The Cannes Market has at least one more British "Hot Package" movie that's guaranteed to start filming when the paperwork says it will: Director Michael Sarnoski's (A Quiet Place) new take on Robin Hood, which has been scooped up by the mega-successful indie producer
Netflix
TV host Richard Osman's debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, became a pandemic hit in the U.K. in September 2020. He's since released three more in the series, the last of which hit the New York Times best-seller list. Various attempts at a movie have
PBS
After a surprising delay in The Marlow Murder Club's first season airing in the U.K. and PBS cropped up (considering Masterpiece is a co-producer on the series), viewers were uncertain if the well-hyped mystery series based on the Robert Thorogood best-selling novels starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey)
Movies
It was only a couple of days ago that we discussed how hard it is to determine which projects that come to the Cannes market will be made and which ones are just fantasy packages in search of a funder. Those that already exist as finished projects have a leg
MGM+
Anthony Horowitz is a name that's become synonymous with the best of British TV mysteries. After writing 11 episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot, he created and wrote the first seasons of Midsomer Murders before wandering off to do the same for Foyle's War. Currently,
Movies
Unless you are in the movie business, the concept of a film festival probably seems super esoteric. The idea that there are nearly enough that one could attend almost year-round would probably knock most people's socks off. Only a few festivals are famous enough for people outside the
FX
It took FX a decade to get a remake of Shōgun off the ground, with the network president John Landgraf referring to the series as the white whale he'd been chasing almost since he first started at the company. They say that good things come to those who