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What have you been watching? Including Black Lightning and Killing Eve

18th April 2018 Rob Buckley 27 Comments

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

The flurry of new Spring shows has been dying down of late, but that doesn’t mean I’ve stopped regaling you with reviews of the latest and greatest – or at least freshest – shows. True, Trust and The Terror are still sitting in that viewing queue, looking ever more unappealing, but I’m still going to give them a shot. And elsewhere, I have at least given you reviews of:

As well as a third-episode verdict on The Crossing (US: ABC; UK: Amazon). Incidentally, in case you haven’t visited that The Detail review recently, it turns out that it really is a remake of ITV’s Scott & Bailey. They kept that one quiet (at first).

Being the lazy type, I can’t be bothered to check the worldwide schedules for new shows, so let it all be as much of a surprise to me as it is to you if a new one materialises for me to review – or as if I actually get round to Trust and The Terror.

After the jump, a look at the latest episodes of the regulars: The Americans, Deep State, The Good Fight, Harrow, Killing Eve, Krypton, Legion, The Looming Tower, SEAL Team, Silicon Valley and Timeless. We’ve also had the season finale of Black Lightning, so I’ll be letting you know how that went, too.

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Ruth Wilson in Mrs Wilson
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The 20th Man, The Peripheral adaptations; Netflix enters The Order; BET, OWN, Comedy Central’s new shows; + more

18th April 2018 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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  • Netflix green lights: series of secret magic society monster drama The Order, with Jake Manley, Sarah Grey, Matt Frewer, Max Martini and Sam Trammell
  • Amazon developing: adaptation of William Gibson’s The Peripheral

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  • Iain Glen, Keeley Hawes, Fiona Shaw and Anupam Kher join BBC One’s Mrs Wilson

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New US TV shows

  • BET green lights: series of sexual chemistry app drama The Archer Connection and professional sports drama Games Divas Play
  • OWN green lights: series of multigenerational family saga Ambitions
  • Comedy Central developing: 20-something rapper comedy Awkwafina, overzealous church-league basketball comedy Robbie, and competitive friends comedy Kevin vs Josh
  • Paramount developing: police brainwashing drama
The Doctor Blake Mysteries
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US Wrong Mans; Doctor Blake without Doctor Blake; Netflix’s vampire wars; + more

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US TV show casting

  • Mark Hamill and Kathy Bates to guest on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory

New US TV shows

  • ABC green lights: Goldbergs spin-off series with AJ Michalka, Tim Meadows and Bryan Callen
  • Pop green lights: pilot of best friends’ marriage of convenience comedy Arranged
  • Showtime green lights: pilot of adaptation of BBC One’s The Wrong Mans, with Ben Schwartz
Anna Torv in Foxtel (Australia)'s Secret City
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Viaplay’s Cold Courage; Sacha Baron Cohen: Spy; BET’s Boomerang adaptation; + more

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  • Trailer for Foxtel’s Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Don Hany, Andrew MacFarlane, Joel Toebeck et al join Foxtel’s Secret City: Under the Eagle

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US TV

US TV show casting

  • Tig Notaro to guest on CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery
  • Peyton List, Wayne Brady, Graham McTavish et al to recur on USA’s Colony

New US TV shows

  • BET green lights: series adaptation of Boomerang, loose Don Cornelius biopic American Soul and comedy Peachtree Place
  • Universal developing: adaptation of Image Comics’ Injection
Legion season 2
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What have you been watching? Including The Americans and Legion

11th April 2018 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

It’s “What have you been watching?”, your chance to recommend anything you’ve been watching this weekfortnight

TMINE was on holiday last week but fortunately, I’ve now managed to review pretty much all the new shows that have started airing in that time:

I’ll be reviewing Killing Eve (US: BBC America; UK: BBC One/BBC Three) in the next couple of days and seeing as Channel Five have gone and bought CTV (Canada)’s The Detail, I’ll be giving that a whirl, too, with next week’s Boxset Monday set to be Netflix’s Lost in Space.

Regular readers will notice that I’ve not yet reviewed Trust (US: FX; UK: Sky Atlantic) or The Terror (US: AMC; UK: AMC Global). They’re a bit of a ‘work in progress’, with Trust being a bit of a slog so far, but I will get round to them at some point, particularly The Terror since I do love a naval story.

I also gave Amazon’s Dangerous Book for Boys a go, but didn’t even make it through the first episode, since it was a bit too ‘US family comedy’ for me, so I can’t really give it a real review.

Spring is officially here, however, which means that as well as in with the new, it’s out with the old. That means that this week’s WHYBW? is not only chock full of new and returning shows, including The Americans and Legion, it’s also waving goodbye to a few shows that have aired their season finales, namely Counterpart, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Magicians and Will & Grace.

I haven’t had the time (or really the inclination) to watch the new season of Plebs, but after the jump, double-helpings (mostly) for the rest of the regulars: Black Lightning, The Crossing, The Good Fight, Harrow, Krypton, The Looming Tower, SEAL Team, Silicon Valley and Timeless. See you in mo – can you guess which show will be getting a promotion?

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