When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Snowfall and 4 Blocks

Snowfall

Every Friday, TMINE lets 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

Sheldon (US: CBS) has been the only acquisition this week, with E4 picking it up. I was moderately surprised by the first episode, and you might like it, too, but you won’t get to watch it until 2018, apparently. Sorry.

Otherwise, two new shows got premiere dates this week, the first of which starts on Wednesday:

4 Blocks

4 Blocks (Germany: TNT Serie; UK: Amazon)
Premiere date: Wednesday, October 4

Six-part story centred on an Arab family in the Neukölln district of Berlin where Toni Hamady (Kida Khodr Ramadan) and his wife Kalila (Maryam Zaree) want to leave their four blocks and put criminal activities behind them. But after his brother-in-law is arrested in a raid, Toni owes it to his family to take over operational leadership of the clan. When an old friend suddenly returns to Berlin, Toni believes he has someone he can trust at his side, and the hope of a lawful future seems to be within reach once more. But it’s too late for an escape.

Haven’t seen it, since it’s German and only aired in June, but I suspect it’ll probably be showing up in Boxset Monday some time soon.

Snowfall (US: FX; UK: BBC Two)
Premiere date: Sunday, October 8, 10pm

John Singleton-produced period drama about the birth of the crack epidemic in 80s LA.

Episode reviews: 1, 2

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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