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
McDonald & Dodds is one of the lesser-known British police procedurals on this side of the pond, which is a shame because it has everything going for it. The formulaic premise, a streetwise former Metropolitan Police investigator arrives in a picturesque tourist town to head up the Criminal Investigation
Acorn TV
Popular crime drama My Life Is Murder Season 1 only just found its way to PBS Passport for new fans to discover the series, but for those who have been watching since it debuted in 2019, there's good news about new episodes. Season 4 finally has a release
BritBox
Awards season may have ended for film, but for live theater and television, the season is hitting the main event, as those disciplines still function on seasons that begin in the summer and end in the spring. While the Emmys will wait until the fall to hand out statues, late
Amazon Studios/Prime Video
I'm not here to upset anybody, but I'd like to point out that it's been almost a decade since the original six-part limited series The Night Manager originally aired on BBC One in February 2016. Based on the John Le Carre novel of
Movies
Most of Hollywood doesn't really tune into Awards season until the end of the summer when the back-to-back film festivals start rolling out the big contenders in Venice and Toronto, followed by London and then American theatrical releases. But for the rest of the world, the
Disney/Hulu
Sir Patrick Stewart famously once said an actor can never have too many franchises, and the Walt Disney Company clearly agrees with this philosophy. Having snapped up previously successful long-running brands like Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, Doctor Who, and The Muppets, to name a few, to supplement their own
Sundance Now
As noted in our earlier post about Return to Paradise, BritBox is the home to British shows, but when it comes to Australian series and other shows from the Oceania region down under, the streaming services that tend to pick those up are the ones under the AAMC Networks umbrella.
BBC
First, there was Death in Paradise, a little slice of sunshine froth set in the Caribbean on the island of Saint-Marie, where poor DI Richard Poole (Ben Miller) was sent to spend a couple of miserable seasons on a glorious paradise-like island solving murders until he himself was
Paramount+
Paramount is not having the best of decades. The flagship film company is the sixth oldest film studio in the world, so well known the anti-trust ruling that broke up the studio system was named for it. It survived that lawsuit, the advent of radio, the move from silent
PBS
With Doc Martin drawing to a close as it reached its tenth season, Martin Clunes began turning to one of his passion projects with his free time: travelologues. Fans of the actor will know that since 2017, he's been behind several projects where he travels to different remote
ITV
Since the conclusion of Endeavour just over a year ago, in the U.K. in March 2023 (and then on PBS in July), fans of Shaun Evans have been impatiently waiting for his return to television. Though Evans had a career for a good decade before landing the career-defining
Netflix
You don't have to be in the entertainment industry to realize that creating television can be an odd business. This has been especially true since 2013, when the streaming revolution caused executives to lose their collective heads and blow up a model that had been working for 50