Peaky Blinders
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BAFTA like to sneak an exciting event in when people are looking. And this here series finale screening of Peaky Blinders is no exception. I mean, who could want to go and see this, hey?

Screening: Peaky Blinders Season Finale + Q&A

Sunday, 22 September 2019 – 7:30pm
Chapter, Cardiff

Join us for the finale of season five of Steven Knight’s BAFTA award-winning saga, Peaky Blinders, shortly before its transmission on BBC One, the same evening.

1929. The whole world has been thrown into turmoil by the Wall Street Crash. Opportunity and misfortune are everywhere.

Tommy Shelby MP (Cillian Murphy) is approached by a charismatic politician (Sam Claflin, The Hunger Games) with a bold vision for Britain. He soon realises that his response will affect not just his own family’s future but that of the entire nation.

Featuring a spectacular cast that includes Helen McCrory (Skyfall), Paul Anderson (The Revenant), Sophie Rundle (Gentleman Jack), Anya Taylor-Joy (Glass), Brian Gleeson (Logan Lucky) and Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones).

In the hotly anticipated final episode, family tensions surface after an unexpected announcement. And Tommy puts his plan for Oswald Mosley into action, but has he underestimated his opponent?

This special advance showing will be followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with key creatives including Anthony Byrne (Director – His Dark Materials, Ripper Street), Chris Ballantyne (Producer – Broadchurch, Silent Witness), Nicole Northridge (Production Designer – Humans, Jamestown) and Special Effects specialists, Danny Hargreaves (Sherlock, Star Wars, FreeFire, Tolkien) and Arran Glasser (Luther, Doctor Who) from Cardiff-based Real SFX.

The event will begin with networking drinks supported by Wales Screen.
Screening will commence at 20.30
Last entry at 20.20

Peaky Blinders-themed attire encouraged but not obligatory.

Due to this screening being held shortly ahead of the BBC transmission, there will be A STRICT NO MOBILE PHONE policy during the screening and subsequent Q&A.

To book a members’ ticket please email Ella.

Public tickets are free and available to book through Chapter box office.

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The Righteous Gemstones, Father Brown, Shakespeare & Hathaway renewed; a Dark Shadows sequel; + more

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

Internet TV

French TV

UK TV

  • BBC One renews: Father Brown and Shakespeare and Hathaway – Private Investigators
  • Hugo Speer, Alex Price and Nancy Carroll to return to BBC One’s Father Brown
  • Yasmin Kaur Barn joins BBC One’s Shakespeare and Hathaway – Private Investigators
  • ITV green lights: adaptation of Natalie Daniels’ Too Close, with Emily Watson
  • Bad Wolf developing: gritty drugs, sex and nightclubs drama Soho 1918

US TV

US TV show casting

  • Kelly Ripa to return to ABC’s American Housewife
  • Katey Sagal to return to ABC’s The Conners
  • Beth Behrs, Joe Keery, Keegan-Michael Key et al to guest on CBS All Access’ No Activity
  • Amanda Peet and Christian Slater to star in USA’s Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story

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The Spy
Streaming TV

Boxset Monday: The Spy (season one) (France: OCS; UK: Netflix)

In France: Available on OCS
In the UK: Available on Netflix

Gideon Raff seems to be on a one-man mission to publicise historic Mossad spying missions. The creator of Hatufim (Prisoners of War), which was the basis for Showtime (US)’s Homeland, he’s been trying to carve a niche for himself on US TV for a while, using his knowledge of the Middle East to give us the “squint and you can see it’s a biopic of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad” Tyrant and the “squint and you’ll see it’s Dan Brown in Israel” Dig. Neither of them were what you’d call successful.

But thanks to Netflix, he seems to have a place at last. This year alone, we’ve had the movie Red Sea Diving Resort, detailing how a bunch of Israeli spies set up a hotel in Sudan to help Ethiopian Jews escape to Israel in the 1970s, and now The Spy – both of which are written and directed by Raff.

Also based on a true story, The Spy improbably sees former Ali G/Bruno/Borat Sacha Baron Cohen playing Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy who had worked in Egypt pre-Suez Crisis but who was rebuffed by Mossad when he attempted to join them shortly after his return. However, after two years of working as an accountant at a department store, Mossad – primarily in the form of Noah Emmerich (The Americans, The Hot Zone) – decide to give him a second chance.

After training him up in elementary tradecraft, six months later Cohen is dispatched to Syria, in an effort to garner intelligence about Israel’s increasingly belligerent neighbour. Emmerich, however, is worried – is Cohen too keen to be spy? Is he going to make mistakes in his eagerness and over-reach? Time will tell…

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