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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April has rolled in, and spring is officially here. Due to the yearly shifts in the calendar, Easter Monday and April Fools Day are one and the same, so there's no week off from debuts for holidays and school breaks. Instead, this month sees entire streaming services sitting
BritBox
Blue Lights Season 2 has officially landed an April 2024 release in the U.K. for the highly anticipated second season. The series, which launched its debut season on BBC One in the final week of March 2023, has been one of the BBC's biggest police procedurals in
Netflix
Netflix continues to spend 2024 as a dominant force in the streaming landscape, while traditional production companies race to catch up any way they can with evolving technologies. On the same day that the BBC released its annual plan that would put the public broadcaster in a £492m deficit hole,
PBS
Winter has officially rolled out, at least as far as the calendar is concerned, and spring is here. April is one of the best times of the year, both outside in the sunshine and inside in the glow of the television. This is the month when the big boys roll
PBS
If March winds bring April showers, apparently, for PBS Passport, they also bring Acorns. Earlier this year, we reported that the original Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries would be streaming on PBS Passport for the first time starting April 1, 2024, with all of Season 1 arriving on the
PBS
Fans of Professor T have a splendid surprise awaiting them for the start of the summer, as PBS revealed that the popular Ben Miller-starring English language remake will return much earlier than initially anticipated. Instead of having to wait until late summer, or worse, the fall mystery season, PBS will
BritBox
The curse of St. Marie has struck again, and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson (Don Warrington) will pull the "Help Wanted" sign back off the shelf and hang it up on the door of the island's only police station once more. Despite becoming the longest-serving DCI in Death
Disney/Hulu
The new era of Doctor Who has been coming in fits and starts since Jodie Whittaker's exit in the centenary special in October 2022. The series moved house in the U.S. from BBC America to Disney+ with the trio of 60th Anniversary specials, and the series properly
FX
Steven Knight is everywhere currently. He's directing the Peaky Blinders movie for Netflix, and he has another project, House of Guinness, which will be going into production for the streaming service next year. He's got a Shakespeare project in the works for the BBC; This Town,
Netflix
Ten years into the streaming revolution, Netflix is still one of the primary leaders in global original programming. The company came in with something of an unfair advantage. As a tech company, it could live in debt for years without having to worry about turning a profit, allowing it to
Downton Abbey
For months there have been rumors about a return of Downton Abbey. Most of these have been confined to rags like The Sun or The Daily Mail, places that have proven unreliable in the past. Also, these rumors suggested the show was coming back for another season to ITV and
Netflix
You may or may not remember the movie Boiling Point, which came out during the pandemic in 2021. The film starred Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Ray Panthaki, and Hannah Walters, written by James Cummings and Philip Barantini, the latter of whom directed it as a one-take, 90-minute film shot in