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.
The show is pretty terrible, but there is at least one very good fight scene in the first couple of episodes. Here, Henry Cavill shows you how it was made – and now you don’t have to watch it.
Every Friday, TMINE lets you know when the latest TV shows from around the world will air in the UK
Not a lot of acquisitions this week – ie none – but we have quite a few dates for shows that have already been acquired, as well as the usual streaming service originals.
After the jump then, premiere dates for:
The End (Australia: Showcase; UK: Sky Atlantic)
Work in Progress (US: Showtime; UK: Sky Comedy)
Fenix (The Netherlands: KPN Presents; UK: Walter Presents)
Juste un regard (Just One Look) (France: TF1; UK: Walter Presents)
As per usual of late, Orange Thursday is aiming for both the high- and the low-brow this week, which means on aggregate TMINE is middle-brow. Sounds about right.
The two movies I’ve chosen to subject my retinas to are:
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2020)– Armando Iannucci’s surprisingly comedic (and loose) Dickens adaptation
X-Men: Dark Phoenix(2019) – ill advised attempt to have another go at the same source material that gave us X-Men 3, just with the X-Men: First Class cast.
