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.
PBS
This week's episode of Annika opens by Forth Bridge in Edinburgh. This week's body's being fished out of the drink just as this week's novel, Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott, is being fished out of Annika'
Exclusive
Nicola Walker’s exit from Unforgotten at the end of Season 4 was quickly soothed by the announcement she was leading a new detective series, Annika, where she played the titular DI Annika Strandhed, a wry, speedboat-driving book nerd just hired as the lead of Glasgow’s Marine Homicide Unit.
Netflix
It's Chocolate Week on The Great British Baking Show, one of the most brutal weeks the series does regularly. We know this because back in the old BBC days, Chocolate never showed up until the latter half of the season, and during Channel 4's "GBBO-but-Nailed-It!
BBC
It’s been about seven years since Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat hung up their pens on the modernized Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. The series, which had about as many dedicated, passionate fans as it did detractors by the time it was over, ended in 2017. Though
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
It's time for us to talk about FAST channels. FAST is an acronym; it stands for Free Ad-supported Streaming Television. Free ad-supported TV? Call me old fashioned, or at least born in the 20th century, but that sounds familiar, almost like... TV. And it is sort of like
Acorn TV
Hidden Assets was a fresh take on the police procedural genre when it arrived on Acorn TV in early 2022. The series was an Irish-Belgian co-production that came at the endless Irish gang mystery trope from a new angle, that of the CAB, the Criminal Assets Bureau, located in Shannon,
Movies
The trailer for A24's The Zone of Interest finally arrived months after the film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and took home the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI Prize. The World War II Holocaust film opened to rapturous reviews in France last spring, with reviews calling it
Netflix
Writer Peter Morgan's major career breakthrough came in 2006 with The Queen, the Helen Mirren tour-de-force, where she played the then-living Queen Elizabeth II, based on the real-life events in the aftermath of Princess Diana's sudden death in a car crash in a tunnel in Paris
BritBox
Irvine Welsh is best known in the U.S. as the author of Trainspotting, a series of short stories set in Edinburgh focusing on the heroin epidemic of the early 1990s from the point of view of the addicts. That novel was the basis of the 1996 film, which turned
PBS
Annika is not the type of series that stands on ceremony or sits around waiting on a lot of preamble. It's part of the benefit of a series where every week is a new case, and there's not much in the way of significant arcs throughout
Netflix
This week's opening sketch is a throwback to the really good old days of Sue and Mel, as Alison Hammond peppers Noel Fielding with questions he can answer about The Great British Baking Show, from what's the difference between flan and tart to defining an even
Orphan Black
It's been over a decade since Orphan Black premiered in March 2013 on BBC America. Viewers may not remember that the weird little Canadian series starring the then-unknown Tatiana Maslany started out as a series about a con-artist who takes over the life of someone who happens to