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What have you been watching? Including Game of Thrones
It’s “What have you been watching?”, your chance to recommend to fellow TMINE readers anything you’ve been watching this week
This week’s reviews
TMINE took a few well-deserved days off at the end of last week, which means its usual prodigious output was a little more subdued than usual. But elsewhere, you can find a review of CBS (US)’s The Code, while last week’s Orange Wednesday took in Shazam! and Aquaman.
New shows
TVNZ premiered The Bad Seed at the weekend, so I’ll be trying to review that this week, as well as ABC’s Bless This Mess. Otherwise, with Easter holidays coming up, it’s liable to be another quiet one. Sorry!
The regulars
I’ll be trying to do a third-episode verdict on The Twilight Zone this week, so I’ll hold off on reviewing that for now. Meanwhile, The Orville‘s back off its holidays, so after the jump, I’ll be looking at that, as well as all the other regulars: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Doom Patrol, The Good Fight, Happy!, Il Miracolo (The Miracle), Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose), The Magicians, Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger, Star Trek: Discovery, Warrior, What We Do In the Shadows and Whiskey Cavalier.
Shockingly, one of those is for the chop. But which?
And oh yes, another show made its return this week. You might not have noticed. I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it. What was it?
Oh yes. That was it. Game of Thrones.
See you in a mo!
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News
Shrill, Manifest renewed; Chinese Miss Fisher; + more
Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world
Internet TV
- Sterling K Brown joins Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
International TV
- Tencent (China) green lights: adaptation of ABC (Australia)’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
UK TV
- Jason Manford, Stephanie Cole, Maggie Ollerenshaw et al to guest on BBC One’s Scarborough
US TV
- Hulu renews: Shrill
- NBC renews: Manifest
New US TV shows
- BET green lights: series adaptation of Lena Waithe’s Twenties
US TV
Review: The Code 1×1 (US: CBS)
In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, CBS
In the UK: Not yet acquired
It seems hard to believe now but there was a time before Aaron Sorkin was a household name. However, way back in 1992, nobody had heard of the future creator of The West Wing, Studio 60 and The Newsroom. Thankfully, the then-playwright soon hit the big time thanks to a film adaptation of his stage play for A Few Good Men.
Featuring an iconic performance by Jack Nicholson as well as a sizzling script, A Few Good Men not only introduced the world to Sorkin, it also gave us our first real filmic glimpses at the modern US Marine Corps and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. These were so unknown in the heady days of the early 90s that when I reviewed A Few Good Men, my editor actually queried – in print in my review – my claim that the base featured in the movie was in Cuba.
Oh, what happy, pre-Gitmo days those were.
The Code
While the Marines have seen many outings in the movies and on TV since, the Uniform Code of Military Justice and its system of courts martial largely only featured in one show: JAG, which concerned the lawyers of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps charged with prosecuting crimes under the code. That ran for an astonishing 10 seasons (one on NBC, nine on CBS), launched the apparently immortal NCIS franchises and even this very day is being considered for a revival.One can only assume that CBS is planning this only because it has so little faith in its latest drama, The Code, given that:
- The Code is all about the JAG corps.
- It’s basically a remake of both A Few Good Men and JAG