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What have you been watching? Including Star Trek: Short Treks

30 October 2019 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

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

This week’s reviews

Since I took the radical move of having a day off on Friday (and most of Thursday), it’s been a slightly reviews-light week this week. However, I did cover the whole of season two of Impulse (YouTube), which you should definitely watch. Never mind the width – feel the quality.

What’s coming this week

The aforementioned day off meant I actually had some time to watch a couple of movies this week, so Orange Thursday tomorrow will be taking in both Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).

Friday is, of course, November 1, but it’s also the beginning of Fall 2019 – Part Three, since as well as Amazon giving us the second season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Apple is finally launching its Apple TV+ streaming service with no fewer than four new series: The Morning Show, See, Dickinson and For All Mankind.

Which of those will be Boxset Monday and/or Tuesday, I can’t say, but I suspect it’ll be either Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan or For All Mankind. Or both.

And I still might get round to watching season one of Modern Love (Amazon), season two of The Hookup Plan (Netflix), season one of Beau Séjour (Belgium: Éen; UK: Walter Presents) or season two of The Kominsky Method (Netflix).

Another new show starting within the next week is His Dark Materials (UK: BBC One), but I’ll probably skip that. You never know though.

The regulars

Bar Stumptown, which took a day off last week, too, it’s the usual usual after the jump: Batwoman, Engrenages (Spiral), Evil, Magnum PI, Mr InBetween, Mr Robot, Titans, Total Control, Treadstone and Watchmen. I also watched a couple of Star Trek: Short Treks. And joining all of them is the returning Silicon Valley.

That’s a lot, isn’t it? Time for a cull…

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Sakho & Mangane acquired; Supergirl’s Superman spin-off; Stumptown, The Rookie, Mixed-ish extended; + more

29 October 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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French TV

Trailer for France 2’s Tropiques Criminels (Criminal Tropics)
France 2 renews and revamps: Les petits meurtres d’Agatha Christie (The Little Murders of Agatha Christie)

UK TV

Trailer for BBC’s Dracula
Walter Presents acquires: Canal+ (Africa)’s Sakho & Mangane

US TV

ABC extends: Stumptown, Mixed-ish and The Rookie

US TV show casting

Elaine Hendrix joins The CW’s Dynasty
Miles Gaston Villanueva to recur on The CW’s Nancy Drew
Malcolm Barrett, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Patrice Covington et al to co-star in NatGeo’s Genius: Aretha

New US TV shows

New trailer for Disney+’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian
ABC green lights: semi-pilot of Fresh Off The Boat Indian family spin-off Magic Motor Inn, with Vir Das and Preity G Zinta
The CW developing: Supergirl spin-off Superman & Lois, with Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch
Freeform developing: modern day adaptation of Dante’s Inferno as Dante’s Inferno

New US TV show casting

Noma Dumezweni joins HBO Max’s Made For Love
Quinn Copeland, Lauren Donzis, Oliver De Los Santos et al join Peacock’s Punky Brewster

What have you been watching? Including Engrenages (Spiral) and Pennyworth

23 October 2019 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

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

This week’s reviews

My iPad is repaired (more or less). Productivity has returned.

This week, I’ve reviewed three new shows: the first episodes of Treadstone (US: USA; UK: Amazon) and Watchmen (US: HBO; UK: Sky Atlantic), as well as the entire first season of Living With Yourself (Netflix). They were all pretty good shows, too, which was a bonus.

What’s coming this week

I’ve not watched any movies this week at all again. Sorry. More sorry – there’s not much new TV coming our way, although there are going to be a few new returning shows, at least.

That means Boxset Monday/Tuesday is going to be one of the usual intended suspects, I suspect: season two of Impulse (YouTube), season one of Modern Love (Amazon), season two of The Hookup Plan (Netflix) or season one of Beau Séjour (Belgium: Éen; UK: Walter Presents). Joining that crew is season two of The Kominsky Method (Netflix), so we’ll see how it goes.

The regulars

It’s the usual usual after the jump: Batwoman, Evil, Magnum PI, Mr InBetween, Mr Robot, Stumptown, Titans and Total Control. With Pennyworth available as of today on StarzPlay in the UK, I thought I’d finish off the final two episodes in one go. I’ve even had time to watch three episodes of Engrenages (Spiral).

Let’s talk about all of them after the jump. Before that, guess which one has been promoted to the regulars list.

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Katja Herbers, Aasif Mandvi and Mike Colter in CBS's Evil

Evil, Defending the Guilty renewed; All Rise, The Unicorn et al extended; + more

23 October 2019 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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