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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Before we get into this week's The Woman in the Wall, let's talk about the elephant in the room, especially in light of the opening flashback where Lorna remembers telling Clemence she wished for a boy and Colman's dream sequence where Father Percy is
FX
It's been over a year since FX CEO John Landgraf first casually mentioned the network had scooped up the rights to Patrick Radden Keefe's best-selling nonfiction novel Say Nothing about the Troubles in Ireland. Unfortunately, that was all FX said about it at the time, and
Acorn TV
It was just under a month ago, in early January 2024, when Whitstable Pearl suddenly appeared on the production list for prepping to film Season 3. It was a surprising development; Acorn TV had not indicated there would be another after Season 2 ran in November 2022. However, the streaming
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The grey days of February are here, when the snow turns to sludge, and the late blizzards arrive right when you wish everything would warm up. Somehow, the month is simultaneously too long and too short at the same time. Also, every four years, someone adds an extra day at
BritBox
For Americans, the title Bad Education will probably bring to mind images of Hugh Jackman in the HBO movie based on real events about a Long Island superintendent who lived a double life that was released in 2020. However, long before that film, there was already a British series on
BritBox
The WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike accidentally caused a delay in all fall scheduled award presentations, causing a logjam from January to mid-March 2024, as every awards show that should have been held over a nine-month span crams itself into a nine-week one. That makes it a little hard to stand out
Movies
The true history of the British Special Forces, known as the SAS, has been a popular subject in the last few decades as classified documents from the era pass into the public record. The shoestring and chewing gum operations of the era have been the stuff of legend since the
BritBox
When Robert Thorogood initially created the British/French mystery series Death in Paradise in 2011, he probably didn't envision it as a series that would be on its fourth lead detective by the time it hit Season 10 or reach a level of popularity that it would be
PBS
I said Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office was "perfect PBS fare;" apparently, Masterpiece agreed with me. The anthology series agreed with me so much that it has upended the entire planned spring schedule for 2024 to make room for it. PBS announced today that Suranne Jones'
Paramount+
Last week's The Woman in the Wall premiere ended with the shock of being a much more literal title than I would have assumed. One morning, after waking from a troubled sleep, Lorna Brady discovered she had a dead body in her house; after a day or so
PBS
For those of you who have not looked at the February calendar for 2024 yet, let me be the first to remind you that this is a leap year. Not that one extra day in February does much for television programming other than give those who need to schedule it
Acorn TV
The highly-anticipated return of The Madame Blanc Mysteries to Acorn TV for the rest of Season 3 began when the Christmas special ended in December 2023. Unlike Channel 5, where the series airs in the U.K., Madame Blanc does not immediately follow with the rest of the season beginning