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.
FX
It took FX a decade to get a remake of Shōgun off the ground, with the network president John Landgraf referring to the series as the white whale he'd been chasing almost since he first started at the company. They say that good things come to those who
Acorn TV
It's been nearly two years since Dalgliesh was renewed for two more seasons, a fact that some trades seem to have forgotten in racing to be first to trumpet the show was "renewed" for a third season. But whether you've been impatiently waiting since
HBO & HBO Max
It is not an exaggeration to say that Game of Thrones helped change the face of television. Before the HBO British-ish fantasy series became the dominant show in the media landscape for a decade, prestige TV was an American-focused phenomenon starring American actors about American stories, such as
PBS
After seeing if the autumn weekends would be better for visitors with Season 2, Hotel Portofino is returning to where it belongs for Season 3, the height of summer. The Eagle Eye Drama original (one of the few they produce that isn't an English-language remake of a
Movies
It was mid-March 2024 when Imelda Staunton broke the embargo on the third Downton Abbey film, confirming a third (and she claimed "final") movie was in the works. Staunton was not in the original show's cast, but her long-time husband, Jim Carter, starred as
Netflix
When Netflix greenlit The Crown in 2014, it was still in its earliest phase of original programming, with high-flying claims about making shows that would never be canceled and projects aimed at proving itself the King of Prestige Television. However, nothing quite hit the heights of ambition like the
AMC/AMC+
Orphan Black: Echoes, the highly anticipated spin-off of BBC America's accidental hit Orphan Black, has finally released the official trailer after months and months of speculation. However, despite what should be an obvious premise — that star Krysten Ritter is the new clone, all this has happened before,
Disney/Hulu
Such Brave Girls is going to have to get a little braver, as the BBC has commissioned the series for a second season. The Kat Sadler-penned series, which also stars the emerging writer, was a critical darling when it arrived in 2023. (Our own critic, Amy Amatangelo, admitted it
Netflix
After disappearing from the radar for several months, Netflix has released the first look images from its long-awaited foray into 14th-century Italy, The Decameron. Initially greenlit in August 2022, the series is "inspired by" the contemporaneously published short-story collection of the same name by Giovanni
Acorn TV
Lucy Lawless is back as Alexa Crowe, the fearless and unapologetic investigator who stars in the New Zealand-set mystery series My Life Is Murder. And this time, the trailer makes it clear she's bound and determined that everyone will know her name by the end of the
BBC
If the Olympics are coming around again, then so are the inevitable questions: “Will there be more W1A to go with them?” The comedy series, which initially began as a one-off film Twenty-Twelve, a BBC Four mockumentary, following the BBC’s attempts at organizing the 2012 Summer Olympics
PBS
When Great Performances was founded in the early 1970s, the Free Shakespeare in the Park series was already an institution, with Joseph Papp starting the series in the 1950s. However, it was still young on many levels, as the theater in which it performed had not been established until the