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Alfred the Butler origin story; Brexit with Benedict Cumberbatch; STV2 to close; + more

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  • STV to close STV2
  • E4 green lights: series of former boyband star comedy Maxxx, with O-T Fagbenle
  • Channel 4 green lights: series of post-nervous breakdown comedy Happy AF, with Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan…
  • …and data-driven political campaigning thriller Brexit, with Benedict Cumberbatch

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Sofia Helin in season 4 of Bron/Broen (The Bridge)
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What have you been watching? Including Timeless, Silicon Valley, The Bridge and Harrow

It’s “What have you been watching?”, your chance to recommend anything you’ve been watching this week

So that didn’t quite go as planned. Mais, plus ça change, hey? As well as upfronts week throwing a bit of a spanner in the works in terms of having the time to review and watch things, I spent a bit more of the weekend talking to Microsoft Support than I was planning, so I had even less time than that.

No review of Vida, then, but I’ll try to get one done by next WHYBW, by which point it might be a third-episode verdict anyway. I also hope to review AXN’s new show, Carter, and I might even be able to get through All Night, even though it’s a teen comedy. But we’ll see about that.

In terms of Boxset Monday, my plans were a bit more convoluted. I did make a start on Tabula Rasa on Walter Presents, except I managed about 10 minutes of that before feeling like it was a bit of a struggle. Interesting, but a bit of struggle. I’m going to try to bear with it, since Fans of European and World TV Dramas reckons the second half is ‘amazing’.

But that might not be for a while now, since this weekend, I’m going to try to get through the rest of Netflix’s Safe. See, I had been thinking of having that as a back-up in case I didn’t manage to make it through Tabula Rasa, but given the trailer, I figured I’d be able to just watch the first episode and call it a day, since Michael C Hall’s accent sounded very annoying. Except I ended up watching the first two and quite liking it, and then someone I work with told me she’d boxset the entire series in a day and that the last episode was great.

That’s the plan for next Monday, then. Let’s see how it withstands an encounter with reality.

This weekend saw a lot of changes to the schedules, mind, with new shows coming and old shows going, and TMINE’s viewing schedule has gone through quite a bit. We’ve decided to stop watching The Handmaid’s Tale, at least for now, since it’s just a bit too bleak and miserable. That may change at some point, though. Meanwhile, in the UK, Bron/Broen (The Bridge) is back. Timeless, of course, had a double-episode finale, which meant I didn’t quite have the time to watch the latest Killing Eve, so I’ll do a doubler next week. Mean-meanwhile, Harrow and Silicon Valley both had regular finales, more about which will come after the jump.

That just leaves the other usual regulars: The Americans, The Good Fight, Krypton, Legion, SEAL Team and Westworld. All of that after the jump, too.

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Pretty Little Liars - The Perfectionists
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Freeform’s upfronts 2018-9 – a rundown and clips from the new shows – Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists

All through ‘upfronts’ week, TMINE will be revealing the new shows that are going to be hitting US TV screens from September 2018

As Freeform is the network formerly known as ABC Family, naturally enough it has it Upfronts on the same day as ABC’s. However, as usual with the lesser networks, there’s not actually that many new shows. Besties is now on its way but there’s no trailer, so all Freeform really had to show off was Pretty Little Liars spin-off The Perfectionists. Oh, and Freeform Santa.

Honestly, even though it’s got Kelly Rutherford in the cast, I can’t even be bothered with The Perfectionists, as I really am too old for that now, and it’s a really short trailer, anyway, so you’ll have to do your own hot-take.

Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists

The Long Version

The series features the return of fan favourites Sasha Pieterse as Alison and Janel Parrish as Mona. Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists stars Sofia Carson (Disney’s Descendants) as Ava, Sydney Park (The Walking Dead) as Caitlin, newcomer Eli Brown as Dylan, Graeme Thomas King (The Widow) as Jeremy, Kelly Rutherford (Gossip Girl) as Claire, and Hayley Erin (General Hospital) in an undisclosed role.

In Beacon Heights, a seemingly perfect town, a group of three college friends struggle with the stress of being overachievers. In the aftermath of the town’s first murder, each Perfectionist hides behind a secret, a lie and an alibi. The Perfectionists is also based on a popular book series by Sara Shepard. Marlene King (Pretty Little Liars, Famous in Love) wrote the pilot and serves as an executive producer on the series with Charlie Craig (Pretty Little Liars, The 100), Lisa Cochran-Neilan (Pretty Little Liars, Famous in Love), Leslie Morgenstein (Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries) and Gina Girolamo (The 100, The Originals). The pilot was directed and executive produced by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (Relationship Status). Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists is produced by Alloy Entertainment and Long Lake Media, in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television.

Freeform Santa

Not really a show, but worth watching.

The Rookie
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ABC’s upfronts 2018-9 – a rundown and clips from the new shows – A Million Little Things, The Fix, Grand Hotel, The Kids Are Alright, Whiskey Cavalier, The Rookie and Single Parents

All through ‘upfronts’ week, TMINE will be revealing the new shows that are going to be hitting US TV screens from September 2018

NBC, Fox and Syfy have come and gone – now it’s the turn of ABC. ‘The alphabet network’ traditionally ends each year’s schedules with mass cancellations of all its new shows from the previous year, pick-ups of numerous identikits replacements of dubious quality and continuing renewals of its tired out regulars.

This year’s no different and there’s a varied bunch of almost identical shows with surprisingly decent casts to ‘look forward to’ this time around: A Million Little Things, The Fix, Grand Hotel, The Kids Are Alright, Whiskey Cavalier, The Rookie and Single Parents. There’s also Schooled, which is a spin-off from The Goldbergs, but there b’ain’t be no trailer for that yet.

Still, want to know more and exactly when these (and the surviving old shows) will be airing? And do you want to get TMINE’s hottest of hot first takes? Follow me after the jump if at least one of those things interests you…

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Hap and Leonard
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Siren renewed; Hap and Leonard cancelled; John Hodgman joins The Tick; + more

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