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
Sherwood’s initial season, originally written as a stand-alone, covered the Northern Red Wall town’s brush with fame during the 2004 manhunt for a killer who killed a resident via a bow and arrow. One of the best shows of 2022, it was renewed as an anthology series
Movies
It was December 2022 when director Luca Guadagnino, best known for films like Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, and Challengers, announced his next film would be a film adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel Queer, with Daniel Craig (James Bond) in the lead. Queer, which was
BritBox
It's been over two years since pandemic-era favorite Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators last aired a new episode and almost four since Season 4 was filmed in early 2021. However, fans of series creator Paul Matthew Thompson, the man behind Vera and Father Brown, know that sometimes
Disney/Hulu
There's a major TV debut coming to the U.K. in October, one of those high-profile shows on streaming, adapted from a series of best-selling sexy novels. It stars major A-list talent and several hot men in period costumes, all of whom are now gracing
PBS
Autumn has officially arrived, and the decorative gourds are starting to sprout on people's doorsteps. The year's final months are a high-key time for most PBS stations; this is the point in the year when Ken Burns documentaries arrive, Masterpiece debuts fall favorites, and the
Movies
The words "Victorian," "Regency," and "Period Drama" often get used interchangeably despite being two totally different eras and an entire genre of film and television. It happens because most English-speaking period dramas are set in the U.K. during the 1800s, defined by
PBS
A Ghost Story for Christmas initially debuted in 1971 on the BBC, a Christmas Eve anthology series of scary stories to tell in the dark while awaiting Santa. The original iteration ran for seven years, concluding in 1978. The first five adaptations were based on M.R. James' famous
HBO & HBO Max
Since Industry's producers announced the show would add Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) as the main arc guest star for Season 3, it's been hard to ignore how much the show was heading for an early cancelation. The series, which initially debuted in November 2020 on
Netflix
Last week, Channel 4 revealed that The Great British Baking Show would return in 2024 to the exact spot on the calendar where it always premieres since the pandemic forced it to slide from an end-of-August debut to the end of September. At the time, with the Tuesday
Acorn TV
According to the temperature readings, it may still be summer, but the Julian calendar does not lie: Sunday, September 22, was the autumnal equinox, which means we've reached the official first week of fall. Decorative gourds abound, the pumpkin spice must flow, and cozy mystery season is right
Starz
Starz is one of the few standalone streaming apps for a small-time cable channel that is still chugging along under the radar despite not having a larger parent company subsidizing it. (Lionsgate owned it until recently, but the company divested itself from the Starz network and app in the
ITV
After spending over a decade playing Endeavour Morse, a role that will almost certainly define his career, Shaun Evans has been signing onto projects where his role goes against the hero type. His most recent series, Until I Kill You, starred him playing real-life serial killer John Sweeney. Now,