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What have you been watching? Including The Flatey Enigma and Detective Cain

11 September 2019 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

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

Sacha Baron Cohen in The Spy
Sacha Baron Cohen in The Spy

This week’s reviews

It’s amazing how much easier it is to write TV reviews when there’s no new TV to review, isn’t it? This odd paradox is presumably the only explanation for the large number of boxsets I dropped on you during TMINE’s inaugural ‘Boxsets Week’ (catchy title, hey?):

However, TV’s coming back, so it’s going to be a more regular schedule for the rest of the month, at least.

In fact, after the jump, we can talk about two new shows that have already popped up on UK TV screens in the past week: Flateyjargátan (The Flatey Enigma) and Caïn (Detective Cain).

Toni Collette and Merritt Wever in Unbelievable
Toni Collette and Merritt Wever in Netflix’s Unbelievable

What’s coming this week

Tomorrow is Orange Thursday, of course, and at least one of the movies I’ll be reviewing is Mary Poppins Returns (2018); the other will be whatever I choose to watch tonight.

TV-wise, expect me to be at least glancing at Netflix’s The I-Land and Unbelievable, and I might get around finally to watching season 3 of GLOW as well.

But that’s about it for the premieres at the moment, I think. However, always expect the unexpected.

Esai Morales as Deathstroke in Titans
Esai Morales as Deathstroke in Titans

The regulars

My regular viewing queue is still a small list, but there are signs it’s coming back to life. We’ll be discussing the continuing adventures of False Flag and Glitch, of course, as well as my continuing efforts to catch up with Pennyworth.

But we also have the not quite triumphant return of Titans to consider, too. All of that, after the jump.

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Mr Robot
News

Älska mig (Love Me) renewed; a Julia Child drama; + more

9 September 2019 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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

Internet TV

Australian TV

  • New trailer for ABC’s Total Control (was Black B*tch)

French TV

Scandinavian TV

UK TV

  • Trailer for Sky Atlantic’s Catherine the Great
  • Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle and Ellie Bamber join BBC One’s The Serpent
  • Joanna Page, Jason Donovan, Annette Crosbie et al join Gold’s Dial M for Middlesbrough
  • James Purefoy joins Sky’s A Discovery of Witches

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Ashley Zukerman, Marielle Scott, Shane Harper et al to recur on FX’s A Teacher
  • Byron Mann to recur on Hulu’s Little Fires Everywhere
  • India De Beaufort, Michael Thomas Grant, Kapil Talwalkar et al to recur on NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
Watchmen
Airdates

What time, TMINE? Including My Life is Murder and Watchmen

6 September 2019 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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

Another quiet week on the acquisitions front, probably because everyone’s saving their pennies for the new crop of US shows about to hit the airwaves. But we do have a couple of new premiere dates.

Premiere dates

My Life Is Murder
Lucy Lawless in Ten (Australia)’s My Life is Murder

My Life is Murder (Australia: Ten; UK: Alibi)

Premiere date: Tuesday September 24, 9pm

Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess, Spartacus, Battlestar Galactica) is a former cop turned private investigator who’s just so good, all her former colleagues keep turning to her for help. All she wants to do, though, is get her German coffee machine mixed.

TMINE episode reviews

Watchmen (US: HBO; UK: Sky Atlantic)

Premiere date: Monday October 21

Sequel to Alan Moore’s famous graphic novel about vigilante superheroes set decades after the original story. That’s about all I can tell you, though, since details on it are scant and it’s an original story – plus it won’t air in the US until Sunday October 20. But at the very least Dr Manhattan is thinking about coming back from Mars.

Kingdom
News

Kingdom, Jerk renewed; Grisham-verse series cancelled; Neighbours spin-off acquired; + more

6 September 2019 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

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

Internet TV

  • Trailer for season 2 of Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
  • Goran Visnjic and Claudia Doumit to recur on Amazon’s The Boys
  • Gary Sinise joins Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why
  • Netflix renews: Kingdom…
  • …green lights: Korean supernatural action drama The School Nurse Files, sci-fi romance My Holo Love, high school conflict drama Extracurricular and Park Narae: Glamor Warning
  • Apple developing: teacher dramedy Mr Corman, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Australian TV

  • Trailer for Ten’s Part-Time Private Eyes

UK TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Julia Jones joins Disney+’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Pennyworth
US TV

What have you been watching? Including Pennyworth

4 September 2019 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

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

The Boys
Amazon’s The Boys

This week’s reviews

Look at that. It’s September. How did that happen, hey?

Cometh September, cometh the regular TMINE schedule and things are now officially back to normal. Almost. This week’s going to be slightly different in that it’s the slightly unscheduled “Week of Boxsets”, as I finally get round to reviewing all the Boxsets I watched over the summer break.

We started on Monday with season 2 of Netflix’s Mindhunter, quickly followed by season 1 of Amazon’s The Boys.

Today is WHYBW, of course, and the streams can’t cross, but tomorrow we’ll continue with season 3 of Canal+’s Le bureau des légendes (The Bureau), with season 4 concluding the “Week of Boxsets” on Friday.

And then on Monday, I’ll try to do another one. Because it’s Boxset Monday.

What will it be? It might be season 3 of GLOW, it might be season 2 of 4 Blocks, but it’s most likely to be the first season of Netflix’s forthcoming The Spy.

Pennyworth
Jack Bannon as Alfred Pennyworth in Epix’s Pennyworth

What’s coming this week

However, that does mean there probably won’t be an Orange Thursday this week, primarily because it’s Wednesday and I’ve not seen any movies this week, but also because I won’t have time tomorrow to write reviews of two movies and a complete season of French TV.

Sorry about that. But I am merely mortal.

I’ve also decided not to bother with Showtime’s forthcoming On Becoming a God in Central Florida, on the general grounds that if it’s not good enough for even YouTube, it’s probably not good enough to watch. Plus I watched a bit of it and came to the same conclusion independently.

But I have watched the first couple of episodes of Pennyworth (US: Epix; UK: StarzPlay), so we can talk about that after the jump.

False Flag
False Flag

The regulars

With TMINE’s “if it starts in August, I’m not watching it rule” and so many shows in the US having now finished, in preparation for the Fall 2019-2020 season, there aren’t many regulars to talk about at the moment. Thank heavens there are other countries, hey?

So after the jump, let’s talk about the latest episodes of Israel’s False Flag and Australia’s Glitch. See you in a mo.

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