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Fahrenheit 451
Airdates

When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Fahrenheit 451, Romper Stomper, Missions and La Casa de las Flores

11 May 2018 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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

Back to the regular title this week, seeing as there have been quite a few premiere dates announced. However, that doesn’t mean we haven’t had a bucketload of acquisitions, too.

  • Channel 4’s picked up Hulu (US)’s forthcoming Catch-22, which hasn’t even started filming yet AFAIK
  • Netflix has acquired the rights to air Lifetime (US)’s You, which starts over there September 9
  • Alibi has acquired ABC (Australia)’s Harrow and ABC (US)’s The Assets
  • W has acquired ABC (US)’s American Housewife

Premiere dates

Romper Stomper (Australia: Stan; UK: BBC Three)
Premiere date: Yesterday (soz)

Update to the old Russell Crowe movie about neo-Nazis.

Missions (France: Shudder; UK: BBC Four)
Premiere date: Thursday, May 17, 9pm

French drama about a manned mission to Mars launched by a Swiss billionaire who also forms part of the eight-strong crew.

Fahrenheit 451 (US: HBO; UK: Sky Atlantic)
Premiere date: Sunday, May 20, 10:10pm

Michael B Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, Lilly Singh, Khandi Alexander, Martin Donovan and Dylan Taylor star in this new adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi classic about a totalitarian society that bans books and the rebellion of one of the ‘firemen’ who has to burn them.

La Casa de las Flores (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, August 10

Many secrets hide behind the seemingly idyllic family-run flower business. This dark comedy shows the darkest secrets of the De La Mora family.

The Rain
Streaming TV

What have you been watching? Including The Rain

9 May 2018 Rob Buckley 19 Comments

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

We’re starting to get a few new shows on tap now. This week, I’ve reviewed Cobra Kai (YouTube Red) and Sweetbitter (US: Starz), and I’ll be having a look at Vida (US: Starz) on Friday, too. Netflix also unveiled its first Danish TV show, The Rain, which would have been this week’s Boxset Monday had it not been:

  1. A Bank Holiday
  2. Clear within minutes that it was YAYA (yet another young adult) dystopian drama in which all the adults are wiped out by a plague, leaving the kids to fend for themselves.

On the latter point, Netflix alone already had Between and that’s before we even get started on the likes of Containment and The 100. I don’t think we need another one, even with subtitles – they’re all just so miserable.

Fingers crossed, though, I’ll be doing Tabula Rasa (Belgium: VRT; UK: Channel 4/Walter Presents) in Boxset Monday next week. Unless it’s rubbish. Or Netflix has something better.

After the jump today, though, it’s the regulars: The Americans, The Good Fight, The Handmaid’s Tale, Harrow, Killing Eve, Krypton, Legion, SEAL Team, Silicon Valley, Timeless, and Westworld.

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The Resident
News

The Resident, The 100, Good Girls renewed; Catch-22 acquired; Sheridan Smith’s Adult Material; + more

8 May 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

  • Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Marvel’s Luke Cage
  • Trailer for season 5 of Netflix’s Arrested Development
  • John Hoogenakker promoted to regular on Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
  • Michelle Monaghan to star in Netflix’s Messiah

International TV

Australian and NZ TV

  • Vince Colosimo and Miranda Tapsell join Nine (Australia)’s Doctor Doctor (The Heart Guy)
  • Dean O’Gorman and Matt Minto to star in TVNZ 1’s The Bad Seed

French TV

German TV

Scandinavian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

  • Trailer for Hulu’s VR comedy Door No 1
  • NBC green lights: series of spy-hunting drama The Enemy Within, with Jennifer Carpenter, Morris Chestnut, Raza Jaffrey et al; diverse housing block drama The Village, with Michaela McManus, Moran Atlas, Warren Christie et al…
  • …and medical drama New Amsterdam (formerly Bellevue), with Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Freema Agyeman et al
  • Berlanti Productions developing: adaptation of Mackenzi Lee’s The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
Ioan Gruffudd and Mirrah Foulkes in Harrow
News

The Handmaid’s Tale, Still Open All Hours, Harrow, The Good Fight, Empire renewed; + more

3 May 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Australian TV

Canadian TV

French TV

  • M6 green lights: series of sexy, action-packed island-intrigue drama with Poppy Montgomery

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Donald Sutherland in FX's Trust
US TV

What have you been watching? Including Trust and The Handmaid’s Tale

2 May 2018 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

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

Hmm. Not many new shows out this past week. How strange. That means that as well as catching up on all the regulars I missed last week, I’ve mainly been concentrating on movies, such as The Avengers: Infinity War, and passing verdict on Killing Eve (US: BBC America; UK: BBC One/BBC Three).

Cobra Kai (YouTube Red) came out today and Danish YA dystopian drama Rain (Netflix) is out on Friday, so although it’s a Bank Holiday Weekend here in the UK, I’ll be giving them a whirl before next WHYBW if I can – I imagine the torrential rain we’ll no doubt be getting might help no end with that.

After the jump, though, I’ll be having a gander (at last) at Trust (US: FX; UK: Sky Atlantic), as well as the regulars: The Americans, The Good Fight, Harrow, Krypton, Legion, SEAL Team, Silicon Valley, Timeless, and Westworld. Plus Lovely Wife and I made it through the first episode of the returning The Handmaid’s Tale – we can talk about what larks that was, after the jump.

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