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Iron Fist and Luke Cage
News

BBC1 & 2’s new series; The Bold Type renewed; Pauley Perrette leaves NCIS; + more

5 October 2017 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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New US TV show casting

Will and Grace
US TV

What have you been watching? Including Bad Blood, 9JKL and Will and Grace

4 October 2017 Rob Buckley 12 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. But it’s what you have you been watching? I bet it’s better than what I’ve been watching. And I watched a lot

Week one into the new US TV season and I reckon I’m keeping up pretty well. Admittedly, I’ve had to ditch Boxset Monday and move WHYBW? from Tuesday to Wednesday to do it, but I don’t think that’s going to cause too many fainting fits.

This week, I’ve reviewed (and even previewed) the first episodes of:

That’s not the whole gamut of new shows, mind, and still to come this week are my reviews of Kevin (Probably) Saves The World (US: ABC), Ten Days in the Valley (US: ABC) and The Gifted (US: Fox; UK: Fox UK). I’m also planning to have a look at Alias Grace (Canada: CBC; UK: Netflix) and Absentia (AXN), and I might even give 4 Blocks (Germany: TNT Serie; UK: Amazon) a whirl if I have the time.

On top of that, there are a few other new shows – but I’ll be dealing with them after the jump, along with the regulars, both old and new. So follow me over the page to where I will cast my eye over the latest episodes of The Brave, Get Krack!n, Great News, Halt and Catch Fire, The Last Ship, Lethal Weapon, Lucifer, My Myself and I, Professor T and Star Trek: Discovery, as well as fill you in on new arrivals Bad Blood, 9JKL and – what’s this? – Will and Grace. Is that right?

(Yep, I dropped Bang and The Good Doctor. What you gonna do?)

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Major Crimes
News

Vernon Subutex; Major Crimes cancelled; Idris Elba comedy; Alyssa Milano takes over TV; + more

4 October 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Australian TV

  • Nine green lights: crime-solving shark-survivors drama Bite Club, with Dominic Monaghan

French TV

  • Canal+ green lights: adaptation of Virginie Despentes’ novels as Vernon Subutex, starring Romain Duris

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Maltese
News

Walter acquires Maltese; Spock’s mum returns; all-star Hang Ups; + more

3 October 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

International TV

  • Jon Hamm joins BBC Two/Amazon’s Good Omens

UK TV

New UK TV shows

New UK TV show casting

  • Richard E Grant, David Tennant, Jessica Hynes et al to guest on Channel 4’s Hang Ups

US TV

US TV show casting

  • Mia Kirshner to play Amanda Grayson in CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery

New US TV shows

New US TV show adaptations

Snowfall
Airdates

When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Snowfall and 4 Blocks

29 September 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

Sheldon (US: CBS) has been the only acquisition this week, with E4 picking it up. I was moderately surprised by the first episode, and you might like it, too, but you won’t get to watch it until 2018, apparently. Sorry.

Otherwise, two new shows got premiere dates this week, the first of which starts on Wednesday:

4 Blocks

4 Blocks (Germany: TNT Serie; UK: Amazon)
Premiere date: Wednesday, October 4

Six-part story centred on an Arab family in the Neukölln district of Berlin where Toni Hamady (Kida Khodr Ramadan) and his wife Kalila (Maryam Zaree) want to leave their four blocks and put criminal activities behind them. But after his brother-in-law is arrested in a raid, Toni owes it to his family to take over operational leadership of the clan. When an old friend suddenly returns to Berlin, Toni believes he has someone he can trust at his side, and the hope of a lawful future seems to be within reach once more. But it’s too late for an escape.

Haven’t seen it, since it’s German and only aired in June, but I suspect it’ll probably be showing up in Boxset Monday some time soon.

Snowfall (US: FX; UK: BBC Two)
Premiere date: Sunday, October 8, 10pm

John Singleton-produced period drama about the birth of the crack epidemic in 80s LA.

Episode reviews: 1, 2