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.
Movies
The Golden Globe nominations for the calendar year 2024 are out, and several upcoming arrivals, including The Brutalist, have already received multiple nominations. The film arrives in the U.S. in time for Christmas Week. However, it has already garnered stellar reviews from its Venice International Film Festival debut, taking
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
The pandemic delays that upended filming for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon led to a head-to-head, as Amazon and HBO released Season 1 of each within a week of each other in 2022, and then their respective Season 2 back-
Disney/Hulu
There's been a spate of worrying across the pond about the state of the TV comedy. There's a sense among those at the BBC that critics haven't given sitcoms their propers in quite a while, with fears that comedy could become an endangered form
BritBox
The UKTV series I, Jack Wright was initially announced in early 2024. Described as "a propulsive, darkly comic and moving murder mystery family drama, which offers many twists and turns as one family deals with treachery and hidden agendas from all involved," it is only the second stand-
Netflix
The holidays are a time when TV networks know viewers will tune in; it's not like people want to watch a Christmas Tree lighting in mid-January! However, that problem is exactly what Netflix has regarding The Great British Baking Show. The 60-hour wait from Tuesday at
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
Amazon Studio's Scottish series, The Rig, will return to Prime Video with Season 2 just in time for hangover viewing. The series, which initially debuted the first weekend of January 2023, returns almost exactly two years later, and sadly, it's still not safe to get back
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December is upon us, and if you weren't ready for 2024 to be over, well, I can't help you; heck, I can't even get my stuff together, as evidenced by the fact that this post is going up five days after the first of
BritBox
Since the BBC bought ITV out of its half of BritBox International nearly a year ago in February 2024, there have been changes afoot. The BBC promised it would not alter the programming strategy or really interfere with BritBox's decision-making; after all, Aunty Beeb had tried and
BritBox
ITV announced it was commissioning a series on Ruth Ellis in mid-July 2023. The last woman to be executed by hanging in Britain, the real-life Ellis was a model and escort who rose to nightclub manager. Her popularity in the U.K. social scene peaked in the mid-
Apple TV
Apple TV+ and the BBC Natural History Unit have teamed up again for the latest nature documentary from the storied production team. This is the third time the two have done so in as many years, having previously worked together on Prehistoric Planet and The Year Earth Changed. They'
PBS
For the second time in 2024, there is good news on the streaming wars front, as those succeeding services start pulling away from those that will not. As I recently noted in our Gangs of London Season 3 post, this is a frustrating time for TV fans when series that
Movies
The Beatles broke up over half a century ago, but the world's first significant boy band out of the U.K. still attracts viewership. Get Back, Let It Be, and the new Beatles '64 are all official hits on Disney+ (one of the streaming service's