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American Vandal cancelled; The Conners, A Million Little Things extended; Ms Fisher casting; + more

29 October 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

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Australian TV

  • James Mason, Toby Truslove, Louisa Mignone et al join Seven’s Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries

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US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Jeryl Prescott joins DC Universe’s Swamp Thing
  • Jessica Williams to star in, Nikesh Patel, Rebecca Rittenhouse and John Reynolds join Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral
  • Adam Scott to guest on CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone
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When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Tidelands and You

26 October 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

It’s been a quiet week for acquisitions and it’s been almost as quiet for premiere dates, but thanks to everyone’s favourite overly indebted Internet streaming service, we do know when a couple of shows are set to start.

Premiere dates

Tidelands

Tidelands (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, December 14

Apparently, this is the year for evil murderous mermaids, since hot on the heels of Freeform’s Siren, we have Australian alternative Tidelands. It stars Charlotte Best (Puberty Blues) as a young woman who returns home to her tiny fishing village having spent the past 10 years in juvenile detention and jail, and Elsa Pataky (Fast And The Furious) as the leader of the mysterious half-human/half-Siren tribe known as the Tidelanders.

It also stars Aaron Jakubenko (Spartacus: War Of The Damned) Peter O’Brien (Neighbours, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Madeleine Madden (Mystery Road), Caroline Brazier (Rake), Dalip Sondhi (Secret City) and Marco Pigossi (Caras E Bocas).

Penn Badgley and Elizabeth Lail
Penn Badgley and Elizabeth Lail in You

You (Netflix)
Premiere date: Wednesday, December 26

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl because she’s the one and they’re made for each other. It’s the plot of every good romcom and Gossip Girl‘s Penn Badgley certainly thinks he’s Harry in When Harry Met Sally. Except he’s actually a murderous stalker in a surprisingly smart series about male entitlement and patriarchy and he’ll do anything to protect her, even from herself. The show has you wanting the two to get together, so conditioned are we by rom-coms, as Badgley goes through the normal motions of chasing the girl of his dreams; it’s just we also don’t want them to get together because we can guess what might happen when reality and fantasy collide. Probably going to be in the TMINE Top x Shows of 2018, so watch when it arrives.

Episode reviews: 1-2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Ms Fisher
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Netflix’s five new German shows; Seven (Australia)’s upfronts; Israel’s District Y; + more

26 October 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

Internet TV

  • Netflix green lights: German shows The Barbarians, Skylines, Tribes of Europa and Don’t Try This At Home and Christmas mini-series
  • Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Billy Crudup join Apple’s morning show series
  • Colin Ford, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Sophie Simnett et al join Netflix’s Daybreak

Australian TV

Israeli TV

UK TV

  • Emma Thompson, Jessica Hynes, Rory Kinnear et al join BBC One’s Years and Years
  • Elen Rhys and Julian Looman to star in BBC One’s The Mallorca Files

US TV

  • Teaser for season five of Comedy Central’s Broad City

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Claudia Black joins The CW’s Roswell, New Mexico
  • Lela Rochon, Trace Lysette, Liza Colon-Zayas et al join OWN’s David Makes Man
Mister Winner
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Atypical, The Letdown renewed; US People Just Do Nothing; + more

25 October 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

Internet TV

Australian TV

UK TV

  • Lucy Pearman, Shaun Williamson, Harriet Thorpe et al join BBC One’s Mister Winner
  • Press pack for BBC iPlayer’s The A List

US TV show casting

Constantine in Legends of Tomorrow
Streaming TV

What have you been watching? Including DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

24 October 2018 Rob Buckley 14 Comments

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

With The CW’s new roster of shows almost out the way – there’s another Vampire Diaries spin-off, Legacies, due to start tomorrow, but that’s it for this year, as far as I know – it’s been a relatively quiet week this week. I ran through the first episodes of Charmed (US: The CW; UK: E4), Camping (US: HBO; UK: Sky Atlantic), The Rookie (US: ABC; UK: Sky Witness) and The Kids Are Alright (US: ABC) all in one go, and the latest season of Marvel’s Daredevil was this week’s Boxset Monday. But that’s comparatively few shows, I’m sure you’ll agree. I reckon NBC is sitting on some, waiting to unleash them when we least expect them.

Next week’s Boxset Monday is going to be Riverdale spin-off Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix), assuming that I manage to find the time at the weekend. But until then, I think I’m more or less bang up to date, unless Canada’s been secretly making new shows without telling me.

After the jump then, we can run through the regulars: Black Lightning, Doctor Who, Happy Together, The Last Ship, Magnum P.I., Mr InBetween, Pine Gap, Titans and You. I’ve also nearly got to the end of The Haunting of Hill House (oh, my nerves!). And just starting its fourth season this week is the world’s funniest and deliberately stupidest superhero show: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Oh the unicorn carnage.

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