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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The mid-2020s will be a time of realignment for streaming services after a decade of mass proliferation. Hulu is beta-testing as a tile under the Disney+ banner; Max has combined Discovery+ and HBO. But that's just the beginning of the Great Rebundling. Amazon will start offering MGM+ and
BBC
The longer streaming becomes the new norm, the more it seems that Fox’s 24 was ahead of its time. For those too young, too liberal, or too British to remember the post-9-11 American TV hit, the Kiefer Sutherland-starrer was your typical “white government hero stops brown terrorists from murdering
PBS
As 2023 draws to a close, PBS has had to say farewell to a couple of its most popular shows, including two Masterpiece series that have been mainstays the last few years, period drama Sanditon, and long-running mystery series Endeavour. But the end of one series merely makes room for
ITV
When will it no longer be too soon to dramatize the COVID-19 pandemic? That question has been one TV and movies have struggled with since March 2020. Some shows dove right in and made the current lockdown situation part of the ongoing storyline, especially hospital dramas and true-to-life soaps. Others
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The year 2023 was a big one for streaming, though perhaps not for the reasons that immediately come to mind. It was not a record-setter or a significant breakthrough year. In fact, for many, it was terrible, with a dual strike that lasted for six months. However, 2023 marked ten
PBS
The last holidays of the year are winding down, and with it, the final days of the old year. With January 2024 on the horizon, it's officially the middle of the decade, with the 2020s firmly entrenched in whatever it is they are going to do. The new
Where Are They Now
When Doc Martin was initially introduced in the Nigel Cole comedy Saving Grace in 2000, no one expected the character to still be going in the 2020s, let alone have his own show that had been on the air for nearly 20 years. But the decision to take actor Martin
HBO & HBO Max
Succession may be over, but HBO's political satire is not taking a break anytime soon. The latest series, The Regime (initially titled The Palace), is the brainchild of one of Succession's writers, Will Tracy, who also happens to be an alum of Last Week Tonight with
PBS
Decades are never as neat as we would like them to be. The 2020s will have a cleaner beginning for the history books than most, in that the pandemic coincided with the proper year; however, the year 2023 is the one in which a lot of series from the 2010s
ITV
J.P. Delaney’s The Girl Before may have gone mainly unnoticed on HBO Max due to a criminal lack of marketing, but it was a decent-sized hit for BBC One when it was released in December 2021. It was perfect for streaming television, a four-episode/four-lead domestic thriller series
FX
The Australian-born British writer James Clavell was well-known in Hollywood for The Fly, The Great Escape, and To Sir, With Love before becoming a best-selling novelist for Shōgun in the 1970s. Perhaps the only surprising thing about his book being adapted in 1980 for the screen is that it wasn&
Netflix
Netflix continues to expand its Harlan Coben library of adaptations heading into 2024. Though the writer is American (he hails from New Jersey), his novels slide easily into the mold of U.K. crime thrillers, and since the streaming service signed an overall deal with his production company Final Twist