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Si no t'hagues conegut
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When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Si no t’hagues conegut, Proven Innocent, No Good Nick and The Spanish Princess

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Acquisitions

  • BBC Wales has acquired S4C’s Bang. That’ll air sometime in the summer. Could end up on BBC Four eventually.
  • My5 has picked up three HOT (Israel) shows: eight-part vampire comedy Juda, six-part gay adoption story Miguel, five-part family drama Mekimi and two seasons of crime drama Sirens. They’ll all be available in the spring.
  • Paramount UK has acquired Paramount US’s Yellowstone, with Kevin Costner and Kelly Reilly. No word at all on when that will start.

Premiere dates

Si no t'hagues conegut

Si no t’hagues conegut (If I Hadn’t Met You) (Spain: TV3; UK: Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, March 15

A man who loses his family in a tragic accident discovers that he can travel to alternate universes, compelling him to find a way to save his family.

Proven Innocent (US: Fox; UK: Universal)
Premiere date: Monday, March 18, 9pm

Teenager falsely accused of murder ends up in prison where she trains to become a lawyer. Years later, she tries to help exonerate those equally falsely accused of crimes, while trying to get her revenge on the lawyer who got her in jail in the first place.

There’s a good cast, including Rachelle Lefevre, Russell Hornsby, Vincent Kartheiser, Laurie Holden and Kelsey Grammer, but the set-up and script are both ludicrous. Given Hornsby’s already been cast in a TV reboot of Bone Collector, the signs aren’t good for this, either.

Episode reviews: Initial

No Good Nick

No Good Nick (Netflix)
Premiere date: Monday, April 15

Netflix US original. Siena Agudong infiltrates a family intending to get revenge on them for unknowingly ruining her life. But as she gets to know the family, she finds compassion for them and struggles with whether to go through with her plan. Melissa Joan Hart plays the competitive ‘career mother’, while Sean Astin stars as the archetypical loveable, dorky ‘fun dad’.

The Spanish Princess

The Spanish Princess (US: Starz; UK: StarzPlay)
Premiere date: Sunday, May 5

Adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novels The Constant Princess and The King’s Curse dealing with Catherine of Aragon, first as a teenage princess of Spain who was promised the English throne since she was a child, then as she arrives in grey, rain-lashed England to marry Prince Arthur. Unfortunately, he dies, but guess who’s waiting in the wings for her…

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What have you been watching? Including Street Legal and Jann

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

Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro

Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro

This week’s reviews

After deciding to not bother reviewing ABC (Australia)’s The Heights on the general grounds the series description included the word ‘soapy’, this week I turned my attention to reviewing:

Meanwhile, for this week’s Orange Wednesday film reviews, I reviewed Peppermint (2018) and Sanjuro (1962).

Jann

New shows

After last week’s flurry of new shows in the US, Canada decided to get in on the act this week. I’ll be turning my attention to last night’s new CBC show Diggstown in the next few days, but after the jump, I’ll be looking at the revival of CBC’s Street Legal, as well as CTV’s preview of forthcoming ‘grumpy old singer’ comedy Jann.

Secret City returned for a second season in Australia on Monday as well and as that’s now all on Netflix in the UK, I might give that a watch over the weekend. However, from Friday, there’s a bit of competition on Netflix from Ricky Gervais’ new show After Life and Starz in the US will be premiering Now Apocalypse on Sunday. There’s bound to be other stuff, too, but let’s see how I fare with that little lot, too.

The Magicians

The regulars

After the jump, we’ll be talking about: Corporate, Doom Patrol, The Magicians, Magnum P.I., Ófærð (Trapped), The Orville, The Passage and Star Trek: Discovery, as well as the second episodes of The Enemy Within and Whiskey Cavalier. I’ll be dropping one of them from the regulars queue, but which?

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Arrow to end; The Sinner, Rebecka Martinsson, Les rivières pourpres renewed; Mad About You revived; + more

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  • France 2 renews: Les rivières pourpres (The Crimson Rivers) [in French]
  • Arte green lights: series of collapsing society thriller Moloch, with Olivier Gourmet and Marine Vacth [in French]

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  • TV4 renews: Rebecka Martinsson, Sascha Zacharias to replace Ido Engvoll

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  • Trailer for Epix’s Perpetual Grace, LTD
  • HBO green lights: series of quit your life comedy Run, with Merritt Wever, Domhnall Gleeson and Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Spectrum green lightsMad About You revival, with Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt

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