I’m pretty sure they haven’t even got a script for it yet, but there’s a teaser for Deadpool 2 that’s currently playing in cinemas with Logan. It’s kinds of funny but it’s certainly very Deadpool…
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Month: March 2017
Events
Coursera is running a course on Scandinavian film and television
Watching all that peak TV yet still have a few hours left over each week? Then why not sign up for Coursera’s course on Scandinavian film and television? Run by the University of Copenhagen, it starts today and runs for five weeks, taking in everything from the Scandinavian welfare state through Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier to Nordic Noir.
I’m not sure it’ll help you get a job or anything, but you can even pay to get a certificate for completing it at the end. But watch a few videos, read a bit of background material and complete a few quizzes each week on your computer, phone or tablet, and you’ll at least know a lot more (probably) than you did before you started. And that won’t cost you a penny.
News
News: One Day At A Time renewed; The Age of Miracles adaptation; + more
Internet TV
- Peter Fonda to guest on Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
- Netflix renews: One Day at a Time
International TV
- BBC One/HBO (US) green light: lesbian landowner drama Shibden Hall
New UK TV shows
- BBC green lights: Adam Price/Michael Dobbs political drama The Club
US TV
- Amanda Seales promoted to regular on HBO’s Insecure
- Arielle Carver-O’Neill joins Starz’s Ash vs Evil Dead
New US TV shows
- AMC developing: adatpation of Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles
New US TV show casting
- Vinnie Jones joins ABC’s Deception
- Chuku Modu joins ABC’s The Good Doctor
- John Corbett to co-star in ABC’s Las Reinas
- Eme Ilwuakor, Isabelle Cornish, Mike Moh et al join ABC’s Marvel’s Inhumans
- Allison Miller to star in ABC’s Salamander
- Zach Appelman joins CBS’s Hate Crimes procedural
- Max Thieriot to star in CBS’s Navy SEAL drama
- Brenda Song joins CBS’s Real Life
- Rosie Perez and Rarmian Newton to star in NBC’s Drama High
- Armando Riesco joins Showtime’s The Chi
- Patrick Fischler, Zabryna Guevara and Ritchie Coster join Syfy’s Happy!
When’s that show you mentioned starting again, TMINE? Including Imposters, Sorjonen (Bordertown), Big Little Lies and The Red Tent
Every Friday, I let you know the latest announcements about when new, imported TV shows will finally be arriving on UK screens – assuming anyone’s bought anything, of course.
A big wodge of acquistions and new Internet shows announced this week, including Imposters as you might have noticed, but as far as actual premiere dates go, it’s mainly Amazon pilots you have to look forward to, with The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Oasis, The Legend of Master Legend and Budding Prospects set to ‘air’ on Friday March 17.
But here are the rest:
Imposters (US: Bravo; UK: Virgin Media)
First four episodes available now
Reviews: 1-2, 3
Big Little Lies (US: HBO; UK: Sky Atlantic)
Monday, March 13th, 9pm
Sorjonen (Bordertown) (Finland: Yle TV; UK: Netflix)
Friday, March 31st
The Red Tent (US: Lifetime; UK: Drama)
Sunday, April 30th, 8pm
GLOW (Netflix)
Friday, June 23
US TV
Nice try, Virgin Press Office, but…
The thing about the Press Offices of TV companies is that they want you to write nice things about their programmes. To do that, they give you nice things, hoping to persuade you.
Take Virgin Media, which has just acquired Bravo (US)’s Imposters. Now, I’ve written reviews of this already (Episodes: 1-2, 3), so you might wonder why they’re bothering – it’s almost as if they’ve just got a list of potential media outlets to target but don’t actually read them so don’t know that TMINE’s raison d’être is to tell people about shows before they arrive in the UK.
Anyway, for about three days now, they’ve been trying to deliver a free thing to me and today, it’s arrived. As is par for the course, they wouldn’t tell me what they were trying to deliver BECAUSE THAT WOULD SPOIL THE AWESOME SURPRISE! They wouldn’t even tell me it was about Imposters, although since…
- They originally wanted to deliver yesterday
- They announced the acquisition yesterday
…it wasn’t a hard guess.
Inside, is a piece of card explaining all about Imposters, even though I’ve already reviewed three episodes of it. There’s also my Imposters name generator! Gosh – I’m Rio Badger, apparently.
But the main gift designed to sway me is a shiny tin full of customised Biscuiteers biscuits.
Which is all very lovely and someone’s obviously gone to a lot of effort – albeit because it’s part of their job and someone’s paying them to do it (aka “capitalism as we know it”).
But (and I don’t mean to sound churlish or to in any way discourage Press Offices everywhere from sending me free things), I’ve spent a bit of time toing and froing with the Press Office discussing delivery schedules, addresses, et al, for something that’s absolutely useless to me. Because if they’d only asked, I could have told them that we’re both vegan and in my wife’s case, that’s because she’s allergic to dairy products – so not only do we not want to eat it, if we do, one of us will actually experience physical harm.
I guess that’s a reasonable metaphor for the show, actually.