I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
Every Friday, TMINE lets you know when the latest TV shows from around the world will air in the UK
Lots of lovely new tele on the way announced this week – Sky even acquired CITVC (China)’s Heroes in Harm’s Way and then stuck it up for us to watch without telling anyone. But not everything had premiere dates.
Come on, studios! Release more movies! Honestly, it’s bad enough that they’re releasing so few at the moment, but pushing back the release dates of Black Widow et al, just because the US can’t get its coronavirus act together? That’s uncalled for.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that Orange Thursday is back down to dregs again, with only two movies left up its sleeve. Fingers crossed, TMINE can watch some more by next week.
This week, then, the double bill is the unexpected third entry in the Bill & Ted franchise, Bill & Ted Face The Music (2020), and yet another of Sherlock Holmes’ unknown siblings turns up in Enola Holmes (2020).
Netflix developing: adaptation of Robert E Howard’s Conan the Barbarian books
French TV
Canal+ cancelsBaron Noir, renews Les Sauvages(The Savages)
France 2 green lights: lawyer’s epiphany drama Le code (The Code), with Daniel Njo Lobe, Christiane Millet, Naidra Ayadi et al
France 3 green lights: Pays Basque crime drama J’ai menti(I Lied), with Camille Lou, Thierry Neuvic, Marylin Lima et al, and unexpected dead mother crime drama Jugée coupable (Found Guilty), with Garance Thenault, Pierre-Yves Bon, Jérôme Anger et al
UK TV
BBC green lights: pilot of fitness instructor comedy Peacock, with Thomas Gray, Steve Stamp, Allan Mustafa et al
