Year: 2019

The Gifted
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The Gifted, Rel, Zapped cancelled; shorter Swamp Thing; + more

18 April 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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The Daily News will return on Tuesday

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  • France 2 green lights: female cops in Martinique series Tropiques Criminels (Criminal Tropics), with Sonia Rolland and Béatrice de la Boulaye

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Film reviews

Orange Wednesday: Spider-Man – Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

17 April 2019 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

TMINE’s holiday break last week not only affected my TV viewing, it also had an effect on my movie watching, too. As a result, despite this being Orange Wednesday, I only had the time to watch one movie.

Excitingly, it was a recommendation from the TMINE-reading public, too: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, in which various, famously voiced versions of the even more famous wall-crawler come together from different dimensions to fight the notorious Kingpin, tell an origin story and reveal what it takes to be a hero.

That’s after the jump…

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Dax Shepard and Lake Bell in ABC (US)'s Bless This Mess
US TV

Review: Bless This Mess 1×1 (US: ABC)

17 April 2019 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

In the US: Tuesdays, 9.30/8.30c, ABC
In the UK: Not yet acquired

Culture clashes seem to be one of the big concerns of network US comedies these days. Black/white, middle-class/working-class, traditional/modern, famous/unknown – imagine the hilarity as everyone tries to understand everyone else from different backgrounds. Not all such concerns are US-specific, of course. New US arrival Bless This Mess, for example, is somewhat similar to two other recent shows from other countries – Canada’s Cavendish and New Zealand’s Fresh Eggs – in trying to make us laugh at urban/rural culture clashes. But if you’re going to do it, you need to have something new to say and some observations to make. Bless This Mess doesn’t.

Here, the set-up is that a New York married couple – therapist Lake Bell (Boston Legal, Childrens Hospital) and music journalist Dax Shepard (Parenthood) – inherit a Nebraskan farmhouse and sight-unseen, decide to relocate the countryside for a new life as farmers. Plausible, huh?

However, once they’re there, they discover that the farmhouse is in need of a touch of repair, the farmland is barren and they have all manner of ‘interesting’ neighbours: live-in neighbour Ed Begley Jr, store owner/sheriff/amateur thespian Pam Grier and rival farmer David Koechner (Anchorman) who’d quite like to buy the property from them.

Can they make a success of both their farm and their relationships with their new neighbours?

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Britannia
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John Cusack’s in Utopia; Alden Ehrenreich’s in a Brave New World; + more

17 April 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

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  • John Cusack to star in Amazon’s Utopia
  • Thuso Mbedu, Chase W Dillon and Aaron Pierre to star in Amazon’s The Underground Railroad
  • Alex Landi to recur on Netflix’s Insatiable
  • Amazon developing: adaptation of Liv Constantine’s The Last Mrs Parrish

Australian TV

  • Hermione Norris to star in Seven’s Between Two Worlds

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