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.
PBS
There is something deeply satisfying about seeing a show you've been obsessively following since it was announced, and after two years of emailing around to PBS asking if public broadcasting is picking up, finally, FINALLY, someone says yes. It's even better when that show is one
Movies
It probably says a lot about our culture that the most successful female director in 2025 is one known for making super hardcore war films. American director Kathryn Bigelow became the only woman to ever win an Academy Award for directing with The Hurt Locker, a movie based on the
PBS
It's been two years since Unforgotten last graced PBS with Season 5; however, Masterpiece's super-popular mystery series has never been a show to stand on ceremony or provide a lot of table setting to get viewers up to speed. That might be because our leads, DI
BBC
The Welsh Renaissance in the U.K. continues apace. Not every series funded by BBC Cymru and the Welsh Government is being made in dual languages (yet). Still, the number of Welsh writers and the presence of Welsh stars headlining regular BBC TV series have grown exponentially. Case in point,
Movies
The Toronto International Film Festival, affectionately known as TIFF, is the Johnny-Come-Lately of the Film Festival circuit. Unlike Berlin, Venice, or Cannes, Toronto only started hosting film festivals in the 1970s, around the same time as Sundance. While some Film Festivals are gearing up for their centenary in the next
PBS
It's still the doldrums of August across the Northern Hemisphere, but the heat broke this week, and the time of year known colloquially in the American South as "False Fall" has arrived. (Don't worry, U.K. friends, our A/C units aren't
Movies
Awards season is the best time of year for movie buffs, as all of the studios put forth their best films over the autumn months in hopes of landing recognition at the Oscars, and all the smaller events that lead up to it. However, two studios have yet to claim
PBS
The original Flemish language Professor T starred Koen De Bouw as Jasper Teerlinck, the titular Professor T, a criminology lecturer at the University of Antwerp. A Sherlock Holmes-type figure, Professor T suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and is neuroatypical. However, former student Annelies Donckers, now an inspector of the Federal
AMC/AMC+
There are very few long-running shows one could call victims of the streaming era. Most shows from the last few decades that ran smack into the headwinds of the oversaturated TV market simply never made it to Season 2. A few managed to eke out enough renewals to break through
Channel 5
One of the biggest complaints about All Creatures Great & Small is that it is very male-oriented. That's unfortunately somewhat baked into the text; the original novels are written from a man's perspective during the interwar period. Both Mrs. Hall, played by Anna Madeley, and Helen,
HBO & HBO Max
After a decade of multiple new owners, an ill-advised merger, and now an eventual unmerger (if a different, larger, also ill-advised merger doesn't happen first), HBO is getting back to doing what it has always done best. When it was a premium cable channel, HBO defined itself by
BritBox
BritBox's commitment to continuing the Agatha Christie adaptation legacy is commendable, and more importantly, one that has been so successful that even Netflix is trying to create its own Agatha Christie Universe (the ACU, if you will). Up until now, BritBox has been partnering with the BBC to