We’ve already done January, but BAFTA is being its usual helpful self and not telling me about things until they have already sold out (Meet the Controllers – thanks, BAFTA!). So I’ve had a look and it turns out that they had some secret Welsh events they hadn’t told me about as well. Better still, they’re not sold out.
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It’s a good question, I think, because to be honest, although it occasionally turfs out something watchable, for the most part, Amazon’s TV content is a bit lacking – certainly not up there with Netflix’s. Well, now Amazon’s released some details and some infographics to give us a clue (no subscriber numbers or ratings, mind…):
Globally, season one of The Grand Tour was among the biggest series, along with Sneaky Pete, seasons one and two of The Man in the High Castle, and The Tick. Not 100% surprising, any of that, and it does go to show you how little impact anything else Amazon has created has had. No Transparent? No Mozart in the Jungle? They’ve been on for seasons now.
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Two premiere dates, including one new acquisition, to start the New Year, you’ll be glad to hear.
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.
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).
Happy New Year, True Believers! Yes, I know Stan Lee’s a Marvel man, but I doubt he’s trademarked it. So, True Believers, I hope you had a great time; Diana was off lighting a bonfire with Batman, apparently, so whatever you did, it was probably better than her Christmas/New Year celebrations.
Everyone else in the real world was off celebrating, too, so not a lot of news came out over the festive period. But here’s what did happen, for what it’s worth.
Justice League looks set to close its run in cinemas with just $700m in takings, which is apparently enough to break even – just. It’s still not great though.
JUSTICE LEAGUE dropped over 1,500+ theaters this weekend and fell -76%, topping out w/ $222M domestic. Folks, that's $190M less than WONDER WOMAN and $5M less than Will Smith's HANCOCK–that's gonna sting for a bit.
— Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) December 24, 2017
Looking more to the future, though, Patty Jenkins says Wonder Woman 2 will be totally different from Wonder Woman:
“We’re actually making a totally different film with a lot of the same, similar like things that we love, but it’s its own movie completely, so it’s not ‘two’ to us,” the director told ET. “It’s an entirely new adventure together that we couldn’t be luckier [to do].”
Liam Sharp revealed some more art from his forthcoming Brave and the Bold:
Meanwhile, Jill Thompson was at the DC Comics Art Academy to explain how she draws Diana:
Just the usual titles featured Diana Prime this fortnight, although Superman #38 might contain a visit from a future Wonder Woman (I can’t even), if you want to give that a whirl. So after the jump, we’ll see who won in that fight between Zeus and teenage Darkseid (the cover contains a bit of a spoiler, mind) in Wonder Woman #37 and in Justice League #36, she’s still agonising about her mission. And whether Germany is in the EU. Maybe not so much the second one, but it’s a concern.
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