ABC green lights: pilots of comedic cosmetics marketing soap False Profits and reboot of Get Christie Love, with Kylie Bunbury
CBS green lights: pilot of ‘God is my Facebook friend’ light drama God Friended Me
NBC green lights: pilots of former foster care friends comedy Like Family, star-crossed lovers romantic comedy So Close, unlicensed San Diego bar comedy Abby’s and couple’s friends comedy Friends-in-Law…
CBS green lights: pilots of multi-cultural social media comedy History of Them, Lisa Vidal, Felix Solis and Amit Shah join, supportive mom friends comedy I Mom So Hard and adaptation of BBC One’s Murder
FX green lights: pilot of TV adaptation of What We Do In the Shadows
NBC green lights: pilot of counterintelligence thriller The Enemy Within
Every Friday, TMINE lets you know when the latest global TV shows will air in the UK
This week, we’ve seen a few new acquisitions. Romper Stomper (Australia: Stan), the update to the old Russell Crowe movie about neo-Nazis, has been picked up by BBC Three to air some time this year. Meanwhile, Syfy’s picked up Outpost, Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner’s series about a strong female hero and the lone survivor of a race called ‘Blackbloods’ who discovers her magical powers as she seeks revenge. That should start some time late this year.
We also have a couple of premiere dates:
THE BOLD TYPE – Freeform “The Bold Type” stars Matt Ward as Alex Crawford, Meghann Fahy as Sutton Brady, Aisha Dee as Kat Edison, Katie Stevens as Jane Sloan, Sam Page as Richard Hunter, and Melora Hardin as Jacqueline Carlyle. (Freeform/Justin Coit)
The Bold Type (US: Freeform; UK: Amazon)
Premiere date: Friday, February 9
Stupid old person’s idea of what smart, talented bold young women working on a magazine like Cosmo must be like. Virtually every line of dialogue is not just empowering, it tells you how empowering it is. Even though very little of it actually is empowering and usually simply reveals the ineptitude at real-life results of those with nothing much more than social media experience.
The Mechanism (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, March 23
Character-driven original series inspired by real events in Brazil in which a small group of dogged investigators comes to discover the inner workings of a monstrous corruption scheme and the impact their pursuit has on everyone involved – including themselves.
DVD releases
Yes, bet you forgot I did these, too. Well, there’s one of note announced this week: BBC One’s Ghost in the Water.
