When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including The Disappearance and Six

5 January 2018 Rob Buckley Airdates, Canadian TV, US TV Post a comment
The Disappearance
The Disappearance (l-r): Aden Young, Camille Sullivan and Peter Coyote

Every Friday, TMINE lets you know when the latest global TV shows will air in the UK

Two premiere dates, including one new acquisition, to start the New Year, you’ll be glad to hear.

Six
History’s Six: (l-r) Jaylen Moore, Kyle Schmid, Barry Sloane, Walton Goggins, Juan Pablo Raba, Edwin Hodge, Donny Boaz

Six (US: History; UK: 5Spike)
Premiere date: Friday, January 19, 9pm

Former SEAL Team Six troop leader Richard ‘Rip’ Taggart (Walton Goggins) is captured by Boko Haram and it’s up to his former SEAL Team Six comrades to put their differences aside to locate and rescue their former troop leader.

Not even half as good as SEAL Team or even the less SEAL-ish The Brave, it’s a show that gets by on the kudos of its subject matter, rather than any real aptitude at drama or characterisation. ISIS terrorists recruiting online from plush apartments in Dubai and communicating using video games? In English? Hmm.

Episode reviews: 1, 2

The Disappearance
The Disappearance (l-r): Aden Young, Camille Sullivan and Peter Coyote

The Disappearance (Canada: CTV; UK: Universal Channel)
Premiere date: Tuesday, February 27, 9pm

I didn’t watch this one because it’s a mini-series and started while I was on holiday (IIRC). So here’s the rubric:

The Disappearance follows the Sullivan family in the wake of a terrifying family drama. As the fractured family bands together to solve the mystery that has uprooted their lives, long-held secrets are uncovered. Driven by hope and a relentless determination to do whatever necessary to uncover the mystery, the same hidden truths that threaten to shatter this family may also be the very key to reuniting them.

The six episode drama series was created by Normand Daneau and Geneviève Simard and stars Peter Coyote (ET), Aden Young (Rectify), Camille Sullivan (The Man In The High Castle), Joanne Kelly (Warehouse 13), Micheline Lanctôt (Unité 9) and Kevin Parent (Café de Flore).

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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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