Month: June 2014

News: Turn to return, Showtime’s Girlfriends, an Intruders trailer + more

24 June 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

New UK TV shows

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Carl Lumbly joins A&E’s The Returned remake
  • PJ Byrne joins HBO’s Martin Scorsese rock and roll pilot

News: Freema Agyeman is in Sense8, Joanna Page joins Knifeman, Rosario Dawson is a Daredevil + more

23 June 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

  • Sequel to The Five(ish) Doctors planned

Film

Film casting

Trailers

  • Trailer for The Drop with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini
  • Trailer for Love is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina

Theatre

  • Tamsin Greig to star in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown adaptation

Australian TV

Internet TV

UK TV

New UK TV shows

  • BBC3 announces nine Comedy Feed pilots
  • Trailer for BBC1’s Common

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Happy ninth birthday to The Medium Is Not Enough

20 June 2014 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

A birthday cakeHappy Birthday, The Medium is Not Enough. Yes, nine years ago* – that’s right, you’ve been enduring this for nearly a decade – this blog emerged into the light of the Internet with its first two posts: previews of Prison Break, the not-unpopular Supernatural and the still-unseen Global Frequency; and tedious cruft about The Omega Factor. Surprisingly, both Supernatural and I are still here.

I’d like to thank everyone who commented and engaged with me this year, particularly Mark Carroll, Gareth Williams, GYAD, Toby, Rullsenberg, SK and benjitek, whose collective wisdom is greater than mine, so you should listen to them, assuming you’re not them.

As always, though, it’s time to do some market research: if you have any suggestions for what else you might like to see on the blog, please let me know below. I know I’ve not been fulfilling my promise to provide lots of pictures of Scarlett Johansson. Sorry. I’ll try harder next year.

Have a nice weekend (and, indeed, year),

MediumRob

PS That review of the dreadful Dominion might have to wait until next week…

* Well, actually, it’s nine years ago tomorrow, but I don’t blog at the weekends – that way lies madness and an early grave.

What have you been watching? Including Murder In the First, Continuum, Suits, Old School and Undateable

20 June 2014 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

It’s “What have you been watching?”, my chance to tell you what movies and TV I’ve been watching recently that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I’ve missed them.

The usual “TMINE recommends” page features links to reviews of all the shows I’ve ever recommended, and there’s also the Reviews A-Z, for when you want to check more or less anything I’ve reviewed ever. And if you want to know when any of these shows are on in your area, there’s Locate TV – they’ll even email you a weekly schedule.

A slightly slower week this week, with only one new show unveiled – SyFy’s Dominion. Hopefully, I’ll be reviewing that later today, but so far it looks like possibly the worst TV show ever made. Although obviously The Starlost still provides strong competition there.

After the jump,  a round-up of the regulars, with reviews of 24, Continuum, Enlisted, Game of Thrones, Murder In The First, Old School, Penny Dreadful, Suits and Undateable.

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