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When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Marvel’s Inhumans, The Good Doctor, She’s Gotta Have It, The Long Road Home and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

13 October 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Every Friday, TMINE lets you know the latest announcements about when new imported TV shows will finally be arriving on UK screens – assuming anyone’s bought anything, of course

A couple of acquisitions this week, with BBC Four picking up OCS Signature (France)’s mission-to-Mars sci-fi drama Missions and 5Star acquiring Asian immigration comedy Fresh Off The Boat (US: ABC) this very day.

However, the big news is in premiere dates, of which we have a bundle.

Premiere dates

Marvel’s Inhumans (US: ABC; UK: Sky1)
Premiere date: Wednesday, October 25, 9pm

Tatty Marvel mutants drama perplexingly set on Hawaii and the Moon.

Episode reviews: 1-2, 3

The Good Doctor (US: ABC; UK: Sky Living)
Premiere date: Friday, October 27, 9pm

Insulting procedural in which a brilliant autistic surgeon gets patronised at his new hospital.

Episode reviews: 1

The Long Road Home (US: National Geographic; UK: National Geographic)
Premiere date: Tuesday, November 7, 9pm

Mini-series about a real-life fight for survival during the Iraq War, when the 1st Cavalry Division from Fort Hood was ferociously ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad. Stars Michael Kelly, Jason Ritter, Kate Bosworth, Sarah Wayne Callies, Noel Fisher and Jeremy Sisto.

She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix)
Premiere date: Thursday, November 23

Spike Lee returns to the movie that launched his career, giving us a series about Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise) and her three lovers: Greer Childs (Cleo Anthony), Jamie Overstreet (Lyriq Bent) and Mars Blackmon (Anthony Ramos). The original was a cracker – let’s hope this is, too.

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Amazon)
Premiere date: Wednesday, November 29

Rachel Brosnahan (House of Cards) aplays Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a 1958 New York City woman who has everything she’s ever wanted – the perfect husband, two kids, and an elegant Upper West Side apartment perfect for hosting Yom Kippur dinner. But her perfect life suddenly takes an unexpected turn when her perfect husband leaves, and Midge is left to chart a new course. She discovers a previously unknown talent – stand-up comedy, which ultimately lands her a post on Johnny Carson’s couch.

Tony Shalhoub (Monk) also stars as Midge’s father Abe Weissman, along with Alex Borstein (Family Guy) as Susie Myerson, Michael Zegen (Boardwalk Empire) as Midge’s husband Joel Maisel and Marin Hinkle (Two and a Half Men) as Midge’s mother Rose Weissman.

The Last Ship
US TV

What have you been watching? Including Ten Days in the Valley, The Flash and The Last Ship

11 October 2017 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

It’s “What have you been watching?”, my chance to tell you each week what movies and TV I’ve been watching recently and your chance to recommend anything you’ve been watching. TMINE recommends has all the reviews of all the TV shows TMINE has ever recommended, but for a complete list of TMINE’s reviews of (good, bad and insipid) TV shows and movies, there’s the definitive TV Reviews A-Z and Film Reviews A-Z. 

It’s that time again. No, I’m not talking about WHYBW. For starters, it’s Wednesday. Oh dear.

Hopefully, we’ll be back to the regular Tuesday slot for WHYBW next week, since Sunday and Monday’s schedules seem to be dying down. But I was actually referring to my usual October cull of the schedules, to weed out shows that for me are no-hopers, which should help, too.

For just a little sense of excitement, I won’t reveal which ones those are until after the jump, but at least two regulars are for the chop, in fact – ooh! On top of that, a lot of the new shows didn’t make it passed their second episodes, either.

Elsewhere, I’ve reviewed the first episodes of Kevin (Probably) Saves The World (US: ABC) and The Gifted (US: Fox; UK: Fox UK). I’ve also passed third-episode verdicts on Absentia (AXN), The Brave (US: NBC) and Me, Myself and I (US: CBS).

No, I didn’t get round to Alias Grace (Canada: CBS; UK: Netflix). Sorry. That’s three episodes in. Some day, though. Some day. However, Ghost Wars (US: Syfy; UK: Netflix) and Valor (US: The CW) will be getting their turn tomorrow for sure.

I did also promise a review of Ten Days in the Valley (US: ABC), Kyra Sedgwick’s new show in which she plays a TV producer whose daughter goes missing. However, so terrible, so boring, so unbearably by the numbers was it that I didn’t even get as far as her daughter going missing. Fortunately, the ratings are so low I doubt ABC will air the entire series, so not a huge omission on my part, I feel.

So follow me after the jump where I’ll be discussing the latest episodes of Get Krack!n, Ghosted, The Gifted, Great News, Halt and Catch Fire, Kevin (Probably) Saves The World, Lethal Weapon, Lucifer, Marvel’s Inhumans, The Mayor, Professor T, SEAL Team, Star Trek: Discovery and Will & Grace, as well as the season finale of The Last Ship and the returns of The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Which do you reckon will be getting the boot?

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi
News

Last Jedi trailer; Matt Berry’s Victorian Sweeney; + more

10 October 2017 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Film trailers

  • Trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Internet TV

  • Trailer for Netflix’s Mindhunter

German TV

  • NDR developing: fact-based crime drama by Stefan Kolditz [subscription required]

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

  • ABC green lights: pilot of adoption family drama Heartland…
  • …developing: genius widower procedural Acquired and desert island family drama New World
  • E! green lights: pilot of dark comedy #Fashionvictim

New US TV show casting

Ash vs Evil Dead Season 3
News

BBC4 acquires Missions, Nat Geo acquires The Long Road Home, Odd Mom Out cancelled + more

9 October 2017 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Internet TV

  • Trailer for Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
  • Trailer for season 3 of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle
  • Teaser trailer for season 1b of Amazon’s The Tick

Australian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

  • Kevin Carroll to play The Sinnerman on Fox’s Lucifer
  • Matt Ryan to play John Constantine on The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

The White Princess
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When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including The White Princess, Chasing Life and Dark

6 October 2017 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Every Friday, TMINE lets you know the latest announcements about when new imported TV shows will finally be arriving on UK screens – assuming anyone’s bought anything, of course

A few acquisitions this week, none of which I’ve seen. Sigh. Oh well.

Walter Presents has bought up Rai (Italy)’s Maltese, which I hear from those who have seen it is rather good. However, Walter hasn’t revealed when he’s going to show it, I’m afraid.

Maltese apart, though, we do have a whole bunch of premiere dates for the other acquisitions.

Chasing Life (US: ABC Family; UK: Sony Channel)
Premiere date: Tuesday, October 17, 9pm

Chasing Life follows 20-something April, a smart and quick-witted aspiring journalist. Just as things start to look up at work, home and on the romance front with co-worker Dominic, April gets the devastating news from an estranged uncle that she has cancer.

It made it to a second season but no further and as it was on ABC Family (i.e. for young adults), I didn’t watch it. Soz.

The White Princess (US: Starz; UK: Drama)
Premiere date: Saturday, November 11, 9pm

Sequel to the Phillippa Gregory historical romance, The White Queen, which also got turned into a BBC One/Starz co-production. The Beeb bowed out of this sequel and since I didn’t watch the original, I bowed out of the sequel, too. Soz.

The White Princess picks up three days after the conclusion of The White Queen. The story begins as one of England’s most politically turbulent times – The War of the Roses – is coming to an end. An uneasy peace is achieved when former King Richard III is defeated at the Battle of Bosworth, and the victor, Henry Tudor, soon-to-be King Henry VII, is married to Lizzie – a princess from a rival house and Richard III’s former lover.

The eight episode limited series hails from writer and showrunner Emma Frost and stars Jodie Comer, Michelle Fairley, Essie Davis, Suki Waterhouse, Ned Elliot and Jacob Collins-Levy.

Dark (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, December 1

10-part German mystery thriller. However, the sinister mystery is not really whodunnit, or even where or how: It’s all about when. Set in a German town in the present day, Dark sees two young children disappear, exposing the double lives and fractured relationships among four families. The story then takes on a supernatural twist that ties back to the same town in 1986.

It’s not aired anywhere yet. So I haven’t seen it. Soz.