Streaming TV

News and reviews of TV made by streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon and Disney+ that can be viewed in the UK

Lucifer cancelled
News

Krypton acquired; Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Last Man Standing saved; all the US renewals and cancellations; + more

14 May 2018 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Internet TV

International TV

Australian TV

  • Ann Dowd, Essie Davis join Foxtel’s Lambs of God

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Fahrenheit 451
Airdates

When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Fahrenheit 451, Romper Stomper, Missions and La Casa de las Flores

11 May 2018 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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

Back to the regular title this week, seeing as there have been quite a few premiere dates announced. However, that doesn’t mean we haven’t had a bucketload of acquisitions, too.

  • Channel 4’s picked up Hulu (US)’s forthcoming Catch-22, which hasn’t even started filming yet AFAIK
  • Netflix has acquired the rights to air Lifetime (US)’s You, which starts over there September 9
  • Alibi has acquired ABC (Australia)’s Harrow and ABC (US)’s The Assets
  • W has acquired ABC (US)’s American Housewife

Premiere dates

Romper Stomper (Australia: Stan; UK: BBC Three)
Premiere date: Yesterday (soz)

Update to the old Russell Crowe movie about neo-Nazis.

Missions (France: Shudder; UK: BBC Four)
Premiere date: Thursday, May 17, 9pm

French drama about a manned mission to Mars launched by a Swiss billionaire who also forms part of the eight-strong crew.

Fahrenheit 451 (US: HBO; UK: Sky Atlantic)
Premiere date: Sunday, May 20, 10:10pm

Michael B Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, Lilly Singh, Khandi Alexander, Martin Donovan and Dylan Taylor star in this new adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi classic about a totalitarian society that bans books and the rebellion of one of the ‘firemen’ who has to burn them.

La Casa de las Flores (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, August 10

Many secrets hide behind the seemingly idyllic family-run flower business. This dark comedy shows the darkest secrets of the De La Mora family.

Brooklyn Nine Nine
News

Cobra Kai, Blindspot, Star renewed; Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Expanse, Last Man on Earth, The Mick cancelled; + more

11 May 2018 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

Internet TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Yusef Gatewood leaves, Paul Blackthorne joins NBC’s The InBetween
Ólafur Darri Ólaffson in RÚV (Iceland)'s Trapped
News

Harrow, The Assets, American Housewife, You acquired; Outlander, L&O:SVU, Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago PD renewed; + more

10 May 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

Scandinavian TV

  • Trailer for season 2 of RÚV (Iceland)’s Ófærð (Trapped)

UK TV

US TV

New US TV shows

  • ABC green lights: series of light crime drama The Rookie, with Nathan Fillion [includes teaser trailer]…
  • …and friends in Boston drama A Million Little Things
  • CBC green lights: midwesterner in LA comedy Welcome to the Neighborhood and pop star lodger comedy
  • Fox green lights: retirement community comedy The Cool Kids and wrongful conviction legal drama Proven Innocent
  • Hulu green lights: limited series adaptation of John Green’s Looking for Alaska
  • TruTV green lights: series of unglamorous firefighters comedy Tacoma FD and Ken Jeong medical advice comedy
  • Showtime developing: period girls soccer team Lord of the Flies drama Yellowjackets

New US TV show casting

The Rain
Streaming TV

What have you been watching? Including The Rain

9 May 2018 Rob Buckley 19 Comments

It’s “What have you been watching?”, your chance to recommend anything you’ve been watching this week

We’re starting to get a few new shows on tap now. This week, I’ve reviewed Cobra Kai (YouTube Red) and Sweetbitter (US: Starz), and I’ll be having a look at Vida (US: Starz) on Friday, too. Netflix also unveiled its first Danish TV show, The Rain, which would have been this week’s Boxset Monday had it not been:

  1. A Bank Holiday
  2. Clear within minutes that it was YAYA (yet another young adult) dystopian drama in which all the adults are wiped out by a plague, leaving the kids to fend for themselves.

On the latter point, Netflix alone already had Between and that’s before we even get started on the likes of Containment and The 100. I don’t think we need another one, even with subtitles – they’re all just so miserable.

Fingers crossed, though, I’ll be doing Tabula Rasa (Belgium: VRT; UK: Channel 4/Walter Presents) in Boxset Monday next week. Unless it’s rubbish. Or Netflix has something better.

After the jump today, though, it’s the regulars: The Americans, The Good Fight, The Handmaid’s Tale, Harrow, Killing Eve, Krypton, Legion, SEAL Team, Silicon Valley, Timeless, and Westworld.

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