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Disney+’s True Lies; Downton Abbey movie trailer; + more

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Film

Trailer for Downton Abbey

Internet TV

Trailer for Netflix’s Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City
Greg Kinnear to star in Amazon’s Good People
Shira Haas, Jeff Wilbusch and Amit Rahav to star in Netflix’s Unorthodox

Canadian TV

Colm Feore and Claire Goose to guest on CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries

French TV

Someone’s leaving TF1’s Clem (spoilers)

US TV show casting

Holly Hunter joins HBO’s Succession

New US TV shows

AGC developing: limited series televangelism drama Electric Church
Cavalry developing: series adaptation of Lethal Lit: A Tig Torres Mystery
Disney+ developing: series adaptation of True Lies
Wheelhouse developing: mini-series adaptation of Jeff Benedict’s Tiger Woods

New US TV show casting

Kingsley Ben-Adir to recur on Hulu’s High Fidelity

Sweden’s Thin Blue Line; Miss France’s Tahiti Murders; The Angel of Hamburg and the Rio Connection; + more

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French TV

Vaimalama Chaves to guest on France 3’s Meurtres à Tahiti (Murders in Tahiti)

Scandinavian TV

SVT (Sweden) green lights: gritty police drama The Thin Blue Line

International TV

Nippon TV (Japan) green lights: CJ ENM (S Korea)’s police ‘voice profiler’ drama Voice
Globo (Brazil)/Sony developing: Brazilian Oskar Schindler drama The Angel of Hamburg and 70s heroin trafficking drama Rio Connection series

UK TV

Trailer for Sky1’s Temple
Trailer for BBC One’s His Dark Materials
Sharon Stone and Marilyn Manson to guest on Sky’s The New Pope

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of HBO’s Westworld
Dirty John moves from Bravo to USA

New US TV shows

Syfy green lights: series of Vagrant Queen adaptation, with Adrian Rae
Hulu developing: adaptation of Stephen King’s Eyes of the Dragon

When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including I Hear You, One Spring Night, Black Monday, How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast), The Oath and The Rook

17 May 2019 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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Acquisitions

The following shows have been acquired this week, but don’t yet have a premiere date:

BBC Four has acquired NRK (Norway)’s Lykkeland (State of Happiness). That will air some time in the summer.
Amazon has stolen a march on Netflix by acquiring the next of CBS All Access (US)’s Star Trek shows – the eagerly awaited Star Trek: Picard. That’s not been made yet, so no premiere date, obvs.

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Baron Noir renewed; The Tick, Chérif cancelled; + more

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Internet TV

Amazon cancels: The Tick…
…green lights: adaptation of Lauren Oliver’s Panic
Netflix green lights: adaptation of Mark Millar’s The Magic Order

Canadian TV

Honeysuckle Weeks to play Agatha Christie in CBC’s Frankie Drake Mysteries

French TV

Canal+ renews: Baron Noir (spoilers)
France 2 cancels: Chérif

International TV

Zee5 (India) green lights: adaptation of Aroon Raman’s Skyfire

Scandinavian TV

Trailer for NRK (Norway)’s Twin

UK TV

BBC Two green lights: Novichok poisonings factual drama Salisbury

US TV show casting

Isaac Keys promoted to regular, Michaela Watkins and Seychelle Gabriel to recur on Epix’s Get Shorty

New US TV shows

AMC green lights: series of episodic anthology soulmate-through-science drama
The CW developing: another Jane The Virgin spin-off
CW Seed developing: haunted sorority house comedy horror series The Pledge

New US TV show casting

Riley Smith joins The CW’s Nancy Drew
Da’Vine Joy Randolph and David Holmes join Hulu’s High Fidelity

And the winners of the Deutschland ’86 competition are…

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For the past week, TMINE has been running a competition to win one of two boxsets of Deutschland ’86 on DVD.

All you had to do to enter was ‘Like’ the TMINE Facebook page and leave a comment on either the competition entry post or the matching Facebook post.

Entry closed last night and the following people were all cool and retro enough to want to have Deutschland on DVD:

The names of the three competition entrants

Good odds, hey? Given nearly 600 people knew about the competition just through Facebook and at least another 250 through Twitter, that suggests to me either Deutschland ’86 isn’t that popular or the fact it’s available for free on All 4 means people aren’t fussed about owning it on DVD (yet). Bad luck them!

Now, using the mighty power of the Internet Random Number Generator, I’ve picked two of these three wise people at random from the entries to receive the DVDs. And they are…

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Disney+’s True Lies; Downton Abbey movie trailer; + more

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New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Sweden’s Thin Blue Line; Miss France’s Tahiti Murders; The Angel of Hamburg and the Rio Connection; + more

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When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including I Hear You, One Spring Night, Black Monday, How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast), The Oath and The Rook

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

Acquisitions

Baron Noir renewed; The Tick, Chérif cancelled; + more

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

Internet TV

Canadian TV

French TV

International TV

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US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

And the winners of the Deutschland ’86 competition are…

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