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
Making a hit television show is not an easy task, even when one is in possession of all the ingredients. A great cast, a concept that's already road-tested, scripts that already work, a production studio full of people who are experienced in what sells and how to market
PBS
Since the premiere of Miss Scarlet & The Duke and All Creatures Great & Small back to back in the winter of 2021, PBS has tried to find a series that would cap off the cold January nights at 10 p.m. to fit the mood. Vienna Blood, a period
Disney/Hulu
Kat Sadler's Such Brave Girls was initially put to pilot back in 2021 at the BBC as a test to see if the writer, then best known as part of the team working on Mel Giedroyc's reality comedy Unforgivable, could handle her own show. The resulting
BritBox
In the current era of prestige TV, actors who are “secretly British” are everywhere. The forthcoming Masters of the Air, for example, is about WWII’s American Air Force’s Bloody Hundredth, but two-thirds of its stars hail from their British allies. Fans are so used to Undercover Brits being
Apple TV
Apple TV+ has always had grand ambitions for its streaming service, and why shouldn't it? As one of the richest tech companies in the world, Apple has the money to spend on high-end dramas, if not always the best taste in what they should be. (Sorry to The
Peacock
Peacock continues to try to figure out where it fits into the landscape of the streaming world. When NBC-Universal launched it in 2020, it was the last of the old-school "big four" broadcast networks to get into the market, and it attempted something different than everyone else, to
Netflix
As the current most successful streaming service, Netflix has a lot of original programming and films to market to viewers over the year; a task made difficult by the sheer glut of entertainment and information that pours forth from the internet on a daily basis. Where once, something like a
PBS
Annika has always had daddy issues hovering in the background of the series since the series began, an odd choice considering it's a series centered around a female police detective and her daughter. But men aren't the only ones who have issues with their fathers, and
TNT/TBS
The Lazarus Project didn't have the most fortuitous start in the U.S. Originally scheduled to debut on cable channel TNT and then stream on HBO Max, it bumped off the calendar less than a week before it was initially scheduled to premiere in January 2023 due to
BritBox
Renewing a show initially planned as a limited, closed-ended series can be risky, but for Jimmy McGovern’s Time, it took what was a one-hit wonder and turned it into a tour-de-force series. Season 1, released in 2021, starred Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) as the newly imprisoned Mark Cobden
AMC/AMC+
Most streaming services are pretty straightforward. Download the app, find all the shows in one place, and watch. A few are a little more complex — Disney, for instance, has been prevented from putting Hulu under its main banner, Disney+, due to a longstanding deal where Comcast still owned a third
Netflix
Before we get into Desserts Week heading into next week's Quarter Finals, we need to stop and discuss the state of The Great British Baking Show. The series is now on Season 14, and it is as popular as ever, both in the U.K. and in the