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
After a surprising delay in The Marlow Murder Club's first season airing in the U.K. and PBS cropped up (considering Masterpiece is a co-producer on the series), viewers were uncertain if the well-hyped mystery series based on the Robert Thorogood best-selling novels starring Samantha
Movies
It was only a couple of days ago that we discussed how hard it is to determine which projects that come to the Cannes market will be made and which ones are just fantasy packages in search of a funder. Those that already exist as finished projects have a leg
MGM+
Anthony Horowitz is a name that's become synonymous with the best of British TV mysteries. After writing 11 episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot, he created and wrote the first seasons of Midsomer Murders before wandering off to do the same for Foyle's War. Currently,
Movies
Unless you are in the movie business, the concept of a film festival probably seems super esoteric. The idea that there are nearly enough to attend almost year-round would probably knock most people’s socks off. Only a few festivals are famous enough for people outside the business to
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