Australian and New Zealand TV – Page 25

As we’re on the reduced August TMINE schedule still, last week’s previous WHYBW was mainly a chance for you all to recommend shows you’ve been watching and for me to catch up with the regulars in the viewing queue. I’ve done that now, so expect plenty of Boxsets and reviews in the next week or so.

But today, I’m going to focus on looking at the final episodes of all the shows that were in the regulars list before I went on holiday: Departure, Legion, Perpetual Grace LTD and Swamp Thing.

However, a few previous regulars returned to the airwaves/broadband connections in the past month, so I’ll also be looking at the new seasons of both False Flag and Glitch.

See you in a mo.

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The Mandalorian trailer; an Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series; new Marvel TV shows; + more

27 August 2019 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

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Internet TV

Trailer for Apple+’s Dickinson
Trailer for Disney+’s The Mandalorian
Teaser for Netflix’s El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Emily VanCamp and Wyatt Russell joins Disney+’s Falcon and Winter Soldier
Ming-Na Wen joins Disney+’s The Mandalorian
Kat Dennings and Randall Park join Disney+’s WandaVision
Disney+ green lights: Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series with Ewan McGregor…
…and update Lizzie McGuire series with Hillary Duff
Disney+ developing: Ms Marvel, She-Hulk and Moon Knight TV shows
Netflix green lights: multi-viewpoint Australian mystery drama series Clickbait…
…and brewery comedy Brews Brothers

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay green lights: hospital rescue drama Åreakuten (First Responders), with Göran Gillinger, Karin Bengtsson, Mårten Svedberg et al

US TV show casting

RJ Walker and Brittany Inge promoted to regulars on BET’s Boomerang

New US TV shows

Trailer for USA’s Briarpatch
Hulu green lights: newly enlightened cartoonist comedy Woke
ABC developing: missing person drama Found
CBS developing: United Nations comedy Unprofessionals
BET developing: ex-80s sitcoms stars comedy WHIPs
NBC developing: adaptation of Serendipity (2001)

New US TV show casting

Vladimir Caamaño joins CBS’s Tommy
Michael Shannon joins HBO’s LA Lakers drama
Viola Davis to play Michelle Obama on Showtime’s First Ladies
John Pankow and Richard Kind to return for Spectrum’s Mad About You

Ballers cancelled; Nudes acquired; Brassic, Into The Dark renewed; + more

23 August 2019 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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The Daily News will return on Tuesday

Internet TV

Trailer for season 3 of Amazon’s Goliath
Disney+ red lights: Book of Enchantment
Carter MacIntyre, Adam J Harrington and Terrence Terrell to recur on Amazon’s Bosch
William Jackson Harper to recur on Amazon’s The Underground Railroad
Elena Satine joins Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop

Australian TV

Someone’s leaving ABC’s The Heights (spoilers)

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay green lights: supernatural thriller Besatt (Seizure)

UK TV

Trailer for season 5 of ITV2’s Plebs
Sky1 renews: Brassic
BBC Three acquires: NRK (Norway)’s Nudes
BBC Three green lights: series of comedy drama My Left Nut, reality TV drama Killed By My Fame and horror drama Red Rose
BBC One green lights: series of NI abortion drama When It Happens To You, 60s fascism thriller Ridley Road, Steven Moffat crime thriller Inside Man, and political thriller Roadkill, with Hugh Laurie…
…and pilot of 63-year-old new mum comedy Bumps, with Amanda Redman
ITV green lights: seaside café sitcom Kate and Kolo, with Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola

US TV

Hulu renews: Into the Dark
HBO cancels: Ballers

US TV show casting

Some people are leaving The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (spoilers)
Matt Bomer, Vanessa Bayer and Blythe Danner to return to NBC’s Will & Grace
Dabney Coleman to guest on Paramount’s Yellowstone

New US TV shows

Trailer for Showtime’s The L Word: Generation Q
FX developing: horror thriller The Bridgewater Triangle
USA developing: housewife drug queenpin drama Philly Reign

New US TV show casting

Sarah Michelle Gellar to star in Fox’s Other People’s Houses

Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic in CBS's Instinct

Vienna Blood acquired; The Heights renewed; Instinct, Krypton cancelled; + more

19 August 2019 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

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TMINE’s Daily News is back! Want to know what you’ve missed? Then check the TMINE Facebook page for the past month’s news highlights, including the latest TV acquisitions.

Internet TV

Damon Herriman joins Amazon’s Underground Railroad
Sarah Chalke to co-star, Ben Lawson joins Netflix’s Firefly Lane

Australian TV

ABC renews: The Heights

UK TV

BBC Two acquires: ZDF (Germany)/ORF (Austria)’s Vienna Blood
ITV green lights: chalk and cheese crime drama Invisible, with Robert Lindsay, Tala Gouvela, Jason Watkins et al…
…Who Wants to be a Millionaire? crime drama Quiz, with Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Sheen, Sian Clifford et al

US TV

CBS cancels: Instinct
Syfy cancels: Krypton
Teaser for season 6 of HBO’s Silicon Valley
Trailer for season 3 of Fox’s 9-1-1

US TV show casting

Katrina Law joins CBS’s Hawaii Five-0
Ronda Rousey to recur on Fox’s 9-1-1
Keesha Sharp to recur on Fox’s Empire
Casting on HBO’s The Nevers
Jessica Hecht, Parisa Fitz-Henley and Eddie Martinez join USA’s The Sinner

New US TV shows

Fox developing: adaptations of Ten (Australia)’s Mr Black…
…and Eén (Belgium)’s De Twaalf as The Twelve
HBO green lights: series adaptation of Skate Kitchen as Betty
NBC developing: adaptation of St Elmo’s Fire
Showtime developing: adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast

New US TV show casting

Joe Holt to recur on AMC’s Walking Dead spin-off
Niecy Nash to recur on FX’s Mrs America
Piper Perabo joins Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

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