Cain
US TV

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

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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Young Wallander
News

Young Wallander found; Apple TV+ to cost £4.99; Audrey Fleurot’s high IQ; + more

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

Internet TV

  • Trailer for Apple TV+’s See
  • Apple TV+ to launch in UK on November 1st, priced £4.99/month
  • Adam Pålsson to play Wallander in Netflix’s Young Wallander, Richard Dillane and Leanne Best to star
  • Yusuf Gatewood, Marin Ireland and Ritu Arya join Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy
  • Ricardo Chavira and Gabriel Chavarria to star in Netflix’s Selena: The Series
  • Dermot Mulroney, Anthony Welsh, Severine Howell-Meri et al join Amazon’s Hanna

French TV

  • TF1 green lights: series of high IQ housewife-police consultant drama HPI, with Audrey Fleurot, and adaptation of Séries+ (Canada)’s Plan B
  • Fauve Hautot, Antoine Duléry, Pascal Légitimus et al to guest on TF1’s H24

UK TV

  • Trailer for BBC One’s Dublin Murders
  • Douglas Henshall, Louise Lombard and Neve McIntosh to star in Channel 5’s The Small Hand

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Ming-Na Wen to guest on Comedy Central’s Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
  • John C Reilly replaces Michael Shannon in HBO’s LA Lakers drama
  • Tami Roman joins Hulu’s Ms Pat
  • Hope Davis joins, Lilli Kay to recur in Showtime’s Your Honor
Righteous Gemstones
News

The Righteous Gemstones, Father Brown, Shakespeare & Hathaway renewed; a Dark Shadows sequel; + more

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

Internet TV

French TV

UK TV

  • BBC One renews: Father Brown and Shakespeare and Hathaway – Private Investigators
  • Hugo Speer, Alex Price and Nancy Carroll to return to BBC One’s Father Brown
  • Yasmin Kaur Barn joins BBC One’s Shakespeare and Hathaway – Private Investigators
  • ITV green lights: adaptation of Natalie Daniels’ Too Close, with Emily Watson
  • Bad Wolf developing: gritty drugs, sex and nightclubs drama Soho 1918

US TV

US TV show casting

  • Kelly Ripa to return to ABC’s American Housewife
  • Katey Sagal to return to ABC’s The Conners
  • Beth Behrs, Joe Keery, Keegan-Michael Key et al to guest on CBS All Access’ No Activity
  • Amanda Peet and Christian Slater to star in USA’s Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story

New US TV shows

The Spy
Streaming TV

Boxset Monday: The Spy (season one) (France: OCS; UK: Netflix)

In France: Available on OCS
In the UK: Available on Netflix

Gideon Raff seems to be on a one-man mission to publicise historic Mossad spying missions. The creator of Hatufim (Prisoners of War), which was the basis for Showtime (US)’s Homeland, he’s been trying to carve a niche for himself on US TV for a while, using his knowledge of the Middle East to give us the “squint and you can see it’s a biopic of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad” Tyrant and the “squint and you’ll see it’s Dan Brown in Israel” Dig. Neither of them were what you’d call successful.

But thanks to Netflix, he seems to have a place at last. This year alone, we’ve had the movie Red Sea Diving Resort, detailing how a bunch of Israeli spies set up a hotel in Sudan to help Ethiopian Jews escape to Israel in the 1970s, and now The Spy – both of which are written and directed by Raff.

Also based on a true story, The Spy improbably sees former Ali G/Bruno/Borat Sacha Baron Cohen playing Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy who had worked in Egypt pre-Suez Crisis but who was rebuffed by Mossad when he attempted to join them shortly after his return. However, after two years of working as an accountant at a department store, Mossad – primarily in the form of Noah Emmerich (The Americans, The Hot Zone) – decide to give him a second chance.

After training him up in elementary tradecraft, six months later Cohen is dispatched to Syria, in an effort to garner intelligence about Israel’s increasingly belligerent neighbour. Emmerich, however, is worried – is Cohen too keen to be spy? Is he going to make mistakes in his eagerness and over-reach? Time will tell…

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Mr Robot
News

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

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