Year: 2020

Film

Quarantine viral videos: Back to the Future’s cast and creators reunite on Reunited Apart

12 May 2020 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Reunited Apart isn’t something of which I was aware until now, but it’s an online series that showcases charities working to provide resources during the lockdown. Hosted by Josh Gad (yes, that one), each episode also reunites (virtually) the cast and crew of classic movies.

The first of these featured The Goonies (1985), which by some miracle I’ve never seen.

However, the subject of the second episode is Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels, which I most definitely have seen and rather love. In it, Gad and co manage to bring together stars Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen and Elisabeth Shue, as well as director Robert Zemeckis, writer Bob Gale, and… Huey Lewis!

That’s got to be worth a half hour of your time.

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Film

Quarantine viral videos: the Lego Movie PSA

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Continuing with our series of viral videos put together by creative types during lockdown, here we have a really quite elaborate one put together by the makers of The Lego Movie (2014). Elizabeth Banks and Chris Pratt reprise their roles to explain to everyone how to socially distance oneself and maintain good hand hygiene.

It’s funnier, better made and more musical than any of that sounds.

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The Eddy
BAFTA events

What TV’s on at BAFTA in May? Including The Eddy

12 May 2020 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Every Tuesday, TMINE flags up what new TV events BAFTA is holding around the UK

Just as the BFI has started to adapt to the coronavirus quarantine, so too has BAFTA, which is now starting to organise online TV events. I must confess I only just noticed this so I missed last week’s Normal People (UK: BBC Three) panel discussion with Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Lenny Abrahamson, but you can view that here:

Clearly, though, I’m going to have to keep my eye on BAFTA again.

After the jump, three events coming your way on Zoom in the next week: a preview of Netflix’s The Eddy, a session on the production challenges facing TV producers during lockdown, and a masterclass with Left Bank Pictures’ producer Andy Harries. You’ll be glad to hear they’re all free (I think).

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Tell Me A Story
News

Tell Me A Story cancelled; Murdoch Mysteries, Dave renewed; + more

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

Internet TV

  • Netflix green lights: adaptation of Clark Olofsson’s Vafan var det som hände as Clark, with Bill Skarsgård

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Little Fires Everywhere
Airdates

What time, TMINE? Including APB, Little Fires Everywhere, The Great, Betty, Dérapages and Philharmonia

11 May 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Every Friday, TMINE lets you know when the latest TV shows from around the world will air in the UK

Gosh. What a lot of lovely new shows on our way. After the jump, we can talk about the shows that now have premiere dates, which are: APB, Little Fires Everywhere, The Great, Betty, Dérapages (Inhuman Resources) and Philharmonia.

But first here are the past week’s acquisitions.

Heder (Honour)

Oops, I missed it

I should probably point out first that BBC Two acquired FXX (US)’s Dave and started showing it yesterday. and that Sky Atlantic will be showing HBO (US)’s I Know This Much Is True tonight at 9pm. Meanwhile, StarzPlay has acquired Viaplay (Sweden)’s Heder (Honour)

Brave New World
Brave New World

Acquisitions

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