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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In 2022, the BBC landed a trio of unexpected gritty hits about the realities of crime and law enforcement. Time, originally a stand-alone miniseries starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham, brought in ratings so high that it was turned into an anthology series, the second season of which recently
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There are two kinds of period pieces that are coming out of of prestige TV currently. There's the super-committed, extremely faithful type, exemplified by shows like Wolf Hall, where even the hair feels unwashed, and the lighting feels like it's utterly naturalistic. Then there'
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For those who have not gotten a chance to watch Beyond Paradise’s Season 2 finale, the top half of this post will remain spoiler-free, but it will shock no one that the second the episode ended, the BBC and BritBox dropped a press release announcing the series had
Actors and Actresses
In the winter of 1989, Mystery! was entering its ninth wildly successful season as Masterpiece Theater's British murder-and-crime-focused spinoff. The series had boasted a string of Thursday night hits, starting with the 1970s Father Brown series starring Kenneth More, the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, the
Apple TV
Apple TV+ has been described as “the place celebrities go to hide,” and it’s more true than John Oliver knew when he said that. Even though it is one of the least watched streaming services around, its offerings have some of the best working actors in Hollywood and the
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It's been a good minute since we last heard about Stephen Merchant's The Outlaws, the pandemic-era comedy co-produced by the BBC and Amazon's Prime Video. Season 1 was an unexpected breath of fresh air when it arrived in 2022, and Season 2
Netflix
One of the ways Netflix is winning the streaming wars is that it has never been precious about "Netflix originals" actually being Netflix originals. The streaming service has always been perfectly happy to drop a relatively small amount of money as a "co-producer" to scoop
Apple TV
There are few seminal novels in the world of science fiction and fantasy that have not gotten on-screen treatment. The Lord of the Rings, for example, revolutionized fantasy, and Peter Jackson's films are still considered the definitive versions. Dune literally changed science fiction from Princesses on Mars
Movies
Anyone who ever VPNed Doctor Who on BBC One last decade when it aired on Saturdays in the early evening has probably seen Richard Osman while establishing their iPlayer connection. The game shows Pointless and Pointless Celebrities, in which he was the reader of the clues alongside the main host,
Apple TV
Ted Lasso may have been the British-based series that put Apple TV+ on the map, but Trying, which debuted weeks before the sports juggernaut in May 2020 and spent years being overlooked despite being the more dependably well-done series, will have the last laugh. The family dramedy about
PBS
It has been a very long spring, and while summer's mystery series are all announcing themselves for June and July, we're not actually there yet. There's one more month of high-profile releases heading this way, and at least two more Masterpiece shows to
BritBox
Since the beginning of Hope Street, the Northern Ireland set police procedural has been a revolving door of cast. Season 1 kicked off with the arrival of DC Leila Hussain (Amara Karan) to the small town of Port Devine. She'd been transferred as part of a protection program