Every so often, TMINE flags up what new TV events the Royal Television Society is holding around the UK
With both BAFTA and the BFI slowly thawing out their schedules, let’s not be too surprised that the RTS is doing the same, albeit through the medium of the Zoom seminar.
Not much notice for these one, but if you want something to watch during lunchtime tomorrow, both are up for grabs. If you like property shows, the first looks a doozy, while the second examines what we’ve been watching during lockdown – and why.
It’s “What have you been watching?”, your chance to recommend to fellow TMINE readers anything you’ve been watching this week
Previously on TMINE
It’s been another reviews-light week this week, thanks principally to there being a bank holiday and there not being much to watch. Plus I’ve been busy. However, things are going to be a little quieter for me next week and there’s at least a couple of new shows worth watching coming up, so I should have some reviews for you in June. Hoorah!
What TMINE is currently watching…
I’m a little further into season 3 of Baron Noir (France: Canal+; UK: Amazon), but not yet done, so hold your horses on that. I also watched Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe (UK: BBC Two), which was welcome but not totally different from all previous wipes. It was moderately depressing, since I’d given up watching the news of late on the general grounds of its general depressingness, so I got to watch all the depressing things I’d missed. But there was at least an element of optimism in there and it was nice to see the return of Cunk.
Could have done with some Adam Curtis, though.
Next on TMINE
Usual lockdown rules, even though lockdown is easing: I’m going to try to watch all of these but there’s a fair chance I may end up watching none because Life.
I haven’t got around to watching Anna Kendrick’s new thing, Love Life (US: HBO Max), but have every intention of catching that over the weekend. Lovely wife has expressed an interest in watching Steve Carrell’s Space Force (Netflix), so there’s a good chance I’ll have seen at least one episode of that before Monday, but hopefully more. Who knows? Maybe it’ll even be a Boxset?
That’s it from the US, though*, but Australia will be offering Cold War thriller Operation Buffalo (Australia: ABC) on Sunday, so that’ll be on the line-up, too.
* I really need to check What time, TMINE, to see if there are only foreign shows on Netflix that I’ve missed, don’t I? Because if I don’t read TMINE, who on Earth else will, hey?
Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet
After the jump…
After the jump is the diminishing list of regulars: What We Do In The Shadows and new arrival Star Girl, as well as the season finales of both One Lane Bridge and Mystery Road. But Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet made a surprise guest appearance with a quarantine episode, so I watched that as well. All of those in a mo.
There’s a lot of crossovers going on this viral video arranged by showrunner Jed Mercurio for charity Asks For Masks.
Most of the regular cast of Line of Duty (Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston and Vicky McClure) show up, of course. But also joining them are various members of cop shows past and present:
Sanjeev Bhasker’s DI Sunny Khan from Unforgotten
Philip Glenister’s DCI Gene Hunt from Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes
Neil Dudgeon’s DCI John Barnaby from Midsomer Murders
