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Origin
News

Origin cancelled; Frankie Drake, Murdoch Mysteries, 911, The Resident, et al renewed; + more

26 March 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

Internet TV

  • YouTube cancels: Origin and Overthinking with Kat & June
  • Apple to launch Apple TV+ streaming service on Apple devices, Roku, Amazon Fire et al starting in May
  • Trailer for Apple’s The Morning Show, See, Dickinson, For All Mankind, et al
  • Netflix green lights: Norwegian 24-hour partner hunt comedy-drama Home For Christmas, with Elise Broch, Felix Sandman, Kingsford Siayor et al…
  • …and Turkish supernatural drama The Gift, with Beren Saat

Canadian TV

  • CBC renews: Frankie Drake Mysteries, Murdoch Mysteries, Heartland, Kim’s Convenience, Burden of Truth et al

European TV

International TV

UK TV

US TV

  • Fox renews: 911 and The Resident
  • Trailer for season 4B of The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

  • Trailers for CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone
  • HBO developing: drama set in Sebastian A Jones’s Asunda universe

New US TV show casting

Bad Banks
Airdates

When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Bad Banks, Tijuana, Ms Fisher and Black Summer

22 March 2019 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

One new acquisition with a premiere date this week. The rest we already knew about but were just waiting to hear when they’d air…

Premiere dates

Bad Banks

Bad Banks (Germany: ZDF/Arte; UK: Channel 4)
Premiere date: Thursday, 4 April, 11.05pm

It’s taken more than a year between acquisition and airing, but finally we know Bad Banks is going to air in a couple of weeks. It’s billed as a “sophisticated financial drama from Germany about a young, ambitious investment banker who is drawn into a merciless and convoluted power play after being wrongly fired from her prestigious job”.

I watched the trailer. I can’t say I agree.

Tijuana

Tijuana (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, April 5

Netflix Mexican original. When a prominent politician is murdered, the intrepid journalists of Frente Tijuana risk their lives to uncover the truth.

Stars: Damián Alcázar, Tamara Vallarta and Rolf Petersen.

Ms Fisher and Steed

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (Australia: Seven; UK: Alibi)
Premiere date: Wednesday, April 10, 9pm

Spin-off series of TV movies from ABC’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries set in the 1960s that sees the original Miss Fisher’s niece, Geraldine Hakewill, get dragged into the investigating business when her previously unknown to her aunt disappears. Has Hakewill inherited any of Miss Fisher’s skills?

No, she hasn’t. But with the help of some other adventuresses, a bit of working class moxie and more 60s clichés than you can shake a lava lamp at, she might still save the day.

Best thought of not just as the Tara King version of The Avengers to Miss Fisher‘s Cathy Gale, but also as something almost unrelated to the original. It’s a diverting enough show, but without any real attractions.

Episode reviews: 1

Black Summer

Black Summer (Netflix)
Premiere date: Thursday, April 11

US Netflix original prequel to Syfy (US)’s Z Nation, in which mother Jaime King is separated from her daughter, so embarks on a harrowing journey on which she’ll stop at nothing to find her. Thrust alongside a small group of American refugees, she must brave a hostile new world and make brutal decisions during the most deadly summer of a zombie apocalypse.

Yeah, not watching that.

Aidy Bryant and Lolly Adefope in Hulu's Shrill
Streaming TV

What have you been watching? Including Shrill, Shadow, The Order and The Village

21 March 2019 Rob Buckley 3 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

It’s not been super, super busy this week for reviews, since although there have been quite a few new shows that I’ve been watching, not many have been worth full-on reviews. But elsewhere, I’ve covered:

And for Orange Wednesday‘s film reviews, I turned my attention to: Triple Frontier (2019), Hotel Artemis (2018) and Special Correspondents (2016).

The Village

New shows

Last week, I listed a whole bunch of new shows that arrived on the scene and after the jump, I’ll be dealing with a whole bunch of them: Shrill (US: Hulu), Shadow (Netflix), The Order (Netflix) and The Village (US: NBC).

There are others on the way, but given how lukewarm the first episode was, I doubt I’ll be tuning in for the rest of Hanna (Amazon). And seeing as I didn’t watch all 160 episodes or whatever of Pretty Little Liars, I doubt I’ll be turning my attention to Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. I have a pretty strong feeling that next week’s Boxset Monday is going to be season two of The OA, but let’s wait to see what else turns up. Me and schedules, hey?

The Good Fight

The regulars

Magnum P.I. took another holiday this week – these lazy Hawaii-based detectives, hey? – as did The Orville – these lazy, barely concealed Star Trek knock-offs, hey? – so that means that after the jump, we’ll be talking about the latest episodes of Doom Patrol, Il Miracolo, The Magicians, Star Trek: Discovery and Whiskey Cavalier. Also returning is The Good Fight, but I’ve only managed to watch one episode of that this week – episode two next week.

Continue reading “What have you been watching? Including Shrill, Shadow, The Order and The Village”

Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries
News

Tin Star’s final series; Ms Fisher acquired; new Bäckström series; + more

21 March 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

Film

Internet TV

European TV

Scandinavian TV

UK TV

US TV show casting

  • Kate Mulgrew, Brett Gelman and Natalie Paul to guest on Audience’s Mr Mercedes
  • Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Garrett Hedlund et al join Hulu’s Castle Rock

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Rig 45
News

Rig 45, Teenage Psychic, American Gods renewed; La vengeance aux yeux clairs spin-off; + more

18 March 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

Apologies for the delay in today’s news – apparently there was a power cut at the data centre… for eight hours.

Internet TV

French TV

International TV

  • HBO Asia green lights: series of human consciousness thriller Dream Raider, food anthology series Food Lore, mass shooting drama The World Between Us…
  • …renews: Teenage Psychic

Scandinavian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

  • Azie Tesfai promoted to regular on The CW’s Supergirl

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting