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
While most of the content PBS tends to pick up from overseas tends to come from the U.K. with the occasional title from Australia, New Zealand, or France, sometimes a show comes wandering down from our neighbor to the north, which is still part of the Commonwealth and even
Netflix
While most streaming services and broadcast producers were struggling to come back from the pandemic in November 2021, Netflix was charging full speed ahead, commissioning multiple series from the U.K., some more high-profile than others. The biggest, One Day, which was already adapted into a movie, landed high-profile castings,
PBS
It's been a minute since the hijinks of Prime Minister Robert Sutherland (Robert Carlyle) and his hapless Tory cabinet have faced random world-ending crises from Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, aka a COBRA. The second season, subtitled "Cyberwar," aired on Sky TV at the end of
Apple TV
After a long silence, Apple TV+ finally discloses when its comedic spy drama Slow Horses will return to streaming. Based on the Mick Herron series of spy novels Slough House, the British espionage series will return to the same spot in the calendar it occupied in 2022, with an early
PBS
PBS has finally released the trailer for Hotel Portofino Season 2, and, unlike public broadcast's typical thirty-second or one-minute clips, this is a nice long extended version, running almost three minutes. Unlike Season 1, which was edited to feel more like an ensemble piece with all the guests
Netflix
The Great British Baking Show Season 14 is set to debut at the end of September 2023, with Channel 4 premiering the series on Tuesday, September 26, and Netflix following three days later, on Friday, September 29. The production has already promised changes this season after unlucky number Season 13
PBS
As mentioned in our roundup of British-produced films coming to the Toronto International Film Festival, the Channel 4-produced series Alice & Jack would be part of the titles headlining the festival's “Primetime” section. A relatively recent addition to TIFF, this showcase of prestige TV series includes award contenders
PBS
Last week's episode of Unforgotten Season 5 ended with the hilarious shot of DCI Jess James muttering "Dick" under her breath at Sunny Khan, and it's hard to disagree she's wrong. With all sympathies to his grieving, James' assessment of Sunny&
Agatha Christie
The British have been exporting their cultural capital since William Shakespeare first hit the big time in the 1600s, and it seems that every century, they add to the list. While not all have stuck, the 1900s brought Agatha Christie, whose popularity and prolific output have made her a staple
PBS
Masterpiece announced it had acquired the ITV drama Nolly in January 2023 as part of a more extensive slate of 2023-2024 premieres. At the time, the three-part series had not yet premiered in the U.K. — it debuted a couple of weeks later in February — and it seemed a possibility
The Great British Baking Show
Bake Off is back! The Great British Baking Show has announced that it will return to Channel 4 for Season 14 (which Netflix will insist on calling "Cycle 11" for reasons that only become more obscure with time) by the end of September 2023. The new season will
BritBox
Since hitting it big with Line of Duty, Jed Mercurio’s production outfit HTM has become one of the leading propulsive thriller action series producers. From Bodyguard to Bloodlands and more traditional police procedural series like D.I. Ray, these shows have been immediate audience favorites wherever they end up