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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It is perhaps one of the great ironies of life that one of the most visible changes the Black Lives Matter movement had was in British television, where the BBC, as a government-funded broadcaster, has stuck to its commitment to diversifying the voices that create TV series. However, that impact
BritBox
It only took Vera Season 13's finale being out on ITV a few days for BritBox to announce the season's forthcoming arrival in America. The beloved mystery series, now confirmed to be heading into its fourteenth season, will arrive on the streaming service at the end
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Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale is at the halfway point of the season, and already there have been major revelations about the ugliness of the town hiding beneath the surface. While the facts coming to light are enough to make one's hair stand on end, perhaps the
FX
Tom Hollander first caught the attention of the PBS crowd in the late 1990s with his appearance in the BBC-Masterpiece joint production of Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. A couple of years later, he landed on the big screen in Gosford Park, cementing his place as part of
PBS
Call The Midwife Season 13 debuted on the BBC on January 7, 2024. As usual, the first two months of the year are the hardest to keep from being spoiled if you happen to read the U.K. entertainment sites while everyone waits for the series to debut on PBS
BritBox
Mystery series Vera will be back for a fourteenth season, ITV confirmed the morning after Season 13 concluded in the U.K. The quick turnaround nature of the announcement was a deliberate move by the network to calm an online storm set off earlier in January 2024 when The Sun
Paramount+
Most people, upon waking to find a dead body in their house, would be justifiably upset, calling the police, demanding answers, and generally deciding this was a bad way to start the day. However, for Lorna Brady (Ruth Wilson), it is merely yet another inconvenience in a string of bad
Acorn TV
Christmas may only come once a year, but for shows like The Madame Blanc Mysteries and Call The Midwife, Americans get a double dose of celebration. Unlike in the U.K., where the Christmas specials function basically as kick-offs to the new seasons — in Madame Blanc's case, they
AMC/AMC+
It's been nearly two years since Americans have heard anything about the star-studded Irish series Kin, Peter McKenna's gangland drama about the Kinsella clan and matriarch Amanda's (Maria Doyle Kennedy) success coup to bring down drug lord Eamon Cunningham (Ciaran Hinds) after his men
Acorn TV
Most of the time, when people think of a "long-running weekly mystery series," the first things that come to mind are British shows. That's not an unfair reaction; between the launch of the government-funded BBC network and the plethora of Shakepearean-trained talent, the tiny island that
Apple TV
Like so many parts of modern culture that we take for granted, the modern fashion show is a Victorian invention, dating back to the mid-1800s and the middle of Queen Victoria’s reign. It was started by English fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth, whose House of Worth began using live
The Avengers
When most people think of 1960s-era British television, they rightly think of PBS, as when broadcast TV was the dominant form, public television was the leading purveyor of shows from overseas. But what most people no longer remember is that PBS didn't form until the end of the