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10 January 2017 8:13 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

If peak anime and peak television had a baby, her name would be “Ronja, The Robber’s Daughter.”

Later this month, Amazon Prime will host the legendary Japanese animation house’s “epic 26-part story” based on the eponymous Astrid Lindgren novel. “Ronja” is the latest in a long line of adaptations for the Swedish Pippi Longstocking scribe, whose work inspired the likes of Lasse Hallström (“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” “Chocolat”).

Read More: ‘Ocean Waves’ Review: This Forgotten Studio Ghibli Classic Is Newly Restored And Better Than Ever

The only Studio Ghibli television series will be available to American viewers for the first time on January 27. “Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter” is directed by Goro Miyazaki, the son of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.

The story centers around a ten-year-old girl named Ronja, who lives in a mountain fort with her parents and their band of merry robbers. She spends »

- Jude Dry

10 January 2017 8:13 AM, PST | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »

If peak anime and peak television had a baby, her name would be “Ronja, The Robber’s Daughter.”

Later this month, Amazon Prime will host the legendary Japanese animation house’s “epic 26-part story” based on the eponymous Astrid Lindgren novel. “Ronja” is the latest in a long line of adaptations for the Swedish Pippi Longstocking scribe, whose work inspired the likes of Lasse Hallström (“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” “Chocolat”).

Read More: ‘Ocean Waves’ Review: This Forgotten Studio Ghibli Classic Is Newly Restored And Better Than Ever

The only Studio Ghibli television series will be available to American viewers for the first time on January 27. “Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter” is directed by Goro Miyazaki, the son of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.

The story centers around a ten-year-old girl named Ronja, who lives in a mountain fort with her parents and their band of merry robbers. She spends »

- Jude Dry

6 January 2017 2:53 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Clarkson and co are trying so hard to be irksome, from Jeremy’s gap-year jewellery collection to Richard’s ice-cream homophobia. But they just can’t get their Amazon bosses angry

There have been nine episodes of The Grand Tour now, all sequestered behind Amazon’s paywall. When the show works – as with the two-part Namibia special – its formula runs like clockwork.

However, a few things have started to grate, and these should probably be addressed before The Grand Tour starts to sputter and parp like Top Gear did before it. So here, then, is everything that’s currently wrong with The Grand Tour.

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- Stuart Heritage

3 items from 2017