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Into The Badlands
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Into the Badlands, The Son cancelled; Room 104, Project Blue Book, Genius renewed; + more

11 February 2019 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

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

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Scandinavian TV

  • SF Studios developing: Drama adaptation of Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

UK TV

  • Trailer for BBC One’s This Time With Alan Partridge
  • ITV green lights: series adaptation of Julian Fellowes’ Belgravia
  • Stephen Merchant and Sheridan Smith to star in BBC One’s The Barking Murders

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Time Traveling Bong
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When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Time Traveling Bong and Rig 45

8 February 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

More acquisitions than premiere dates this week, but at least two of those acquisitions are going to hit UK screens next month.

Project Blue Book

Acquisitions

  • Syfy has picked up History (US)’s really pretty poor UFO period drama Project Blue Book. That will air some time starting in March.
  • Universal has bought Fox’s Proven Innocent. That’s not aired in the US yet, but should air here in March, too.
  • Netflix has acquired RÚV (Iceland)’s The Valhalla Murders. That’s still in production, though, so don’t expect a premiere date for some time. Given that it’s only likely to air in Iceland at Christmas, I reckon it’ll be 2020 at least before it comes our way.
  • E4 has acquired ABC (US)’s Speechless. That was originally picked up by Channel 5, but never aired for some reason. No premiere date yet, but Channel 4 says ‘soon’

Premiere dates

Time Traveling Bong

Time Traveling Bong (US: Comedy Central; UK: Comedy Central)
Premiere date: Sunday, February 17, 11pm

Time Travelling Bong follows two mediocre, suburban cousins who live together in a condo left to them by their grandmother in New Jersey. Their lives take a twisted turn when they find a bong that also serves as a time machine that transports them to Salem, Massachusetts in the height of the witch trial era, the racially segregated South in the 1960s, ancient Greece and even the dystopian future, among other times and places. Their buzz is killed when the bong breaks and they are forced to bounce around the space time continuum, learning to appreciate that there’s no time like the present.

Stars Ilana Glazer and Paul W Downs.

Rig 45

Rig 45 (Scandinavia: Viaplay; UK: StarzPlay)
Premiere date: Friday, February 22

Mostly English-language but also frequently Scandinavian drama Rig 45. Benthos Oil sends an investigator to look at a fatal accident on a North Sea rig. Met by an inexplicable wall of silence from the crew, she starts to suspect something is very wrong – and when a hurricane hits the rig, cutting off all communications, the crew find themselves battling the elements and a devious killer.

Stars Catherine Walker, Gary Lewis, Lisa Henni and Søren Malling.

Rig 45
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Rig 45 acquired; 24 prequel and spin-off cancelled; Netflix’s five Spanish originals; + more

7 February 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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  • Netflix green lights: badass Spanglish series Gentefied…
  • …developing: adaptation of Carlos Montero’s El Desorden que Dejas, superpowered down-and-out comedy Viaglondo (Colossal), adaptation of Astiberri’s El Vecino, sister drama Dias de Navidad and best friend drama Valeria
  • Adwin Brown to recur on Neflix’s You

UK TV

US TV show casting

  • Gus Kenworthy and Emma Roberts join FX’s American Horror Story

New US TV shows

  • CBS green lights: pilots of Chinese American dream comedy The Emperor of Malibu, family comedy Our House and dating widower comedy The Unicorn
  • Fox developing: adaptation of Boom! Studios’ Talent…
  • …red lights: 24 prequel and spin-off

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American Soul
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When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including American Soul, Bite Club, Delhi Crime Story and Störst av allt (Quicksand)

1 February 2019 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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

One very odd acquisition without a date this week, but everything else has a premiere announced.

Acquisitions

Netflix has picked up USA (US)’s Dare Me, an adaptation of Megan Abbott’s novel of the same name. I said odd because there isn’t actually a TV series yet – and there wouldn’t be if Netflix hadn’t agreed to distribute it everywhere in the world except the US.

So no premiere date yet… because it hasn’t been made yet.

Premiere dates

American Soul

American Soul (US: BET; UK: BET International)
Premiere date: Thursday, February 7, 10pm

Drama set behind the scenes of Soul Train, the 1970s US TV show that was the country’s first nationally-syndicated Black music show.

Stars Sinqua Walls, Kelly Price, Jason Dirden, Iantha Richardson, Katlyn Nichol, Jelani Winston and Christopher Jefferson. Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Bobby Brown, K Michelle, Gabrielle Dennis and McKinley Freeman all guest star.

Bite Club

Bite Club (Australia: Nine; UK: Alibi)
Premiere date: Wednesday, February 20, 9pm

Bite Club follows two detectives who, after surviving a shark attack, join forces to hunt the ultimate predator – a serial killer who is also hunting them. Not only are they survivors but also ex-lovers.

Stars Todd Lasance, Ash Ricardo, Damian Walshe-Howling, Deborah Mailman, Robert Mammone, Pia Miller, Marny Kennedy, Darcie Irwin-Simpson and Dominic Monaghan.

Delhi Crime

Delhi Crime Story (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, March 22

True crime Indian anthology series. The first season follows the notorious December 2012 investigation by the Delhi Police into the horrific gang rape of a young woman, which reverberated across India and the world. It captures the complexities of the scrutiny, the emotional toll on the investigating team, and their determination to bring the perpetrators to justice in a fraught environment.

Stars Shefali Shah, Adil Hussain, Denzil Smith, Rasika Dugal, Rajesh Tailang and Yashaswini Dayama.

Quicksand

Störst av allt (Quicksand) (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, April 5

Swedish Netflix original from the makers of Bron/Broen (The Bridge), based on the book by  Malin Persson Giolito.

A mass shooting takes place at a prep school in Stockholm’s wealthiest neighbourhood Djursholm, a normal high school student, Maja Norberg, finds herself on trial for murder. When the events of that tragic day are revealed, so too are the private details about her relationship with Sebastian Fagerman and his dysfunctional family.

Stars Hanna Ardéhn and Felix Sandman.

Ulrich Thomsen
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Fuller House, Shameless, almost all CW shows renewed; The L Word revived; + more

1 February 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Scandinavian TV

  • John Simm, Caroline Goodall, Pihla Viitala et al to star in Viaplay (Finland)’s Cold Courage
  • NRK (Norway) green lights: Anders Breivik reaction drama 22 July
  • Viaplay green lights: Danish psychological drama Face to Face, with Ulrich Thomsen, Lars Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas et al

UK TV

US TV

  • Trailer for season 3 of CBS All Access’ The Good Fight
  • Trailer for season 3B of Freeform’s Shadowhunters
  • The CW renews: Arrow, Black Lightning, Charmed, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Dynasty, The Flash, Legacies, Riverdale, Supergirl and Supernatural
  • Showtime renews: Shameless

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