Happy 13th birthday to TMINE!

A birthday cake

Crikey, as I always say. How did that happen?

Time has flown again, since The Medium Is Not Enough emerged blinking into the world a stupifying 13 years ago, primed to make sarcastic comments about UK and foreign TV, mainly from the US, mainly in languages I can speak, with reviews of Prison Break, Supernatural, and Global Frequency.

This year, of course, we’ve had the great big WordPress migration and redesign. Boxset and Movie Mondays have arrived. YouTube Red has started producing watchable TV. And I’ve got a year older. Sigh.

As always, a great big thank you to all the regular commenters: Mark Carroll, JustStark, bob, Craig Grannell, idleworm, Adam Bowie, Ian Miller and new arrival MasterWitcher088. But thank yous to anyone who’s left even one comment this year – it’s been great to hear from you!

Same time next year everyone? I say that every year, don’t I? Anyway, there’ll be cake, so bring your friends.

Stargate Origins
Streaming TV

Stargate Origins – the movie is now available on iTunes

Call me a prophet. When I reviewed the first three episodes of Stargate Command’s 10-part Stargate prequel Stargate Origins, I suggested:

I wonder if the plan is to use it to build up interest in Stargate Command now and then maybe flog Origins on iTunes and other platforms later on.

Guess what. Stargate Origins is now available on iTunes as a movie for £13.99. Aren’t I amazing?

One of the reasons I suggested holding off on watching Origins after the first three episodes was that Stargate Command’s pricing model was unclear. Now it’s clearer:

The Stargate Origins feature cut in 4K* is available now on iTunes! Re-live the first trip to Abydos with young Catherine Langford as she embarks on an adventure to rescue her father and save the Earth from a spreading evil and an unimaginable darkness.

Get the Stargate Origins feature cut (approx. a $19.99 value) for free with the purchase of an All-Access Pass which includes access to all Stargate episodes, movies, and more for just $20!

So there you go. Buy the film on iTunes or get it and all the TV episodes, the episodic version of Origins et al for the same price. Obvious choice? Yes. Particularly given iTunes only works on Apple things and Windows, whereas Stargate Command works on all of those, including Apple TV, as well as Android and Amazon Fire. Roku users et al? Sorry – neither work right now, but I have higher expectations of Stargate Command coming up with something for you than I do of Apple.

Vanity Fair
News

Serinda Swan is the Coroner; Vanity Fair teaser; Ben Daniels is the new Lord Snowden; + more

Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world

Internet TV

Canadian TV

UK TV

  • Teaser for ITV’s Vanity Fair

US TV

New US TV shows

  • Molly McCook and Josh Pence to recur on Freeform’s Good Trouble
  • Andrew Caldwell, Jade Pettyjohn and Anthony Keyvan join Hulu’s Kansas City
  • Desmond Chiam and Taylor Hart to recur on Starz’s Now Apocalypse
Mystery Road
US TV

What have you been watching? Including Condor, Succession and Cloak and Dagger

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

Not quite as complete a reviewing week as I’d hoped, as Impulse took up more time than I’d expected, as did work. But I did manage to squeeze out a look at Paramount (US)’s American Woman. I did, in the end, give AMC (US)’s Dietland a try but given there was a close-up of a woman using a razor to cut open her own breast in the first minute, I decided it might not be for me and gave up pretty speedily.

I’m not sure I can bring myself to watch anything on OWN – that’s the Oprah Winfrey Network to you – so Strange Angel might be all I’ve got up my sleeve in the next couple of days as far as new shows go. However, as season 2 of Marvel’s Luke Cage is on its way, I feel a bit of a boxset coming on.

That’s all to come, but after the jump, I’ll be looking at the latest episodes of the newly replenished TMINE viewing queue: Bron/Broen (The Bridge), CondorMarvel’s Cloak and Dagger, Mystery Road, Succession and Westworld.

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Sky1's Bulletproof
News

Absentia, Bulletproof, Pls Like renewed; BBC’s new comedies; live Inside No. 9; + more

Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world

Internet TV

International TV

UK TV

  • Trailer for BBC One’s Bodyguard
  • BBC green lights: series of country house spirits comedy Ghosts, disabled daughter family comedy There She Goes with David Tennant and Jessica Hynes, returning small town prisoner comedy Back to Life with Daisy Haggard, and dark coming of age comedy In My Skin
  • BBC Three renews: Pls Like
  • Inside No. 9 to get a live Halloween special
  • Sky1 renews: Bulletproof

US TV

US TV show casting

  • Jane Leeves joins, Moran Atias, Melina Kanakaredes and Marrin Dungey leave Fox’s The Resident
  • Mindy Kaling to guest on FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

New US TV show casting