Liar Series 2
UK TV

What (more) TV’s on at the RTS in February? Including Liar – series 2

Every so often, TMINE flags up what new TV events the Royal Television Society is holding around the UK

Another February event to add to the growing list.

Screening and Q&A of Liar series 2

Date: Thursday 27 February
Timings: 6.00pm for a 6.30pm start
Venue: Curzon Bloomsbury, The Brunswick Centre, London WC1N 1AW

Join the RTS on Thursday 27 February for an exclusive screening of season two of Two Brothers Pictures’ hit ITV drama series Liar

Following the screening of the first episode, there will be a Q&A with the producers Harry and Jack Williams and stars Joanne Froggatt and Katherine Kelly.

About the Show

Three weeks after damning evidence was uncovered proving Andrew Earlham sexually assaulted nineteen women, his body is found in the Kent marshes. As one of Andrew’s more recent victims, Laura Nielson can’t help feeling relieved by the news of his death. The last three weeks spent knowing Andrew was somewhere out there and missing have not been easy.

Yet the seaside community is rocked when the case quickly becomes a murder investigation. Out of town officer DI Karen Renton is put in charge of the case, and together with DS Rory Maxwell, they begin to unpack the events of the three crucial weeks leading up to Andrew’s death.

The news cast a shadow over those who knew Andrew, all of whom, like Laura, are trying to move on with their lives.

As the search to find Andrew’s killer gains momentum, the community will be forced to face up to the secrets of their recent past, secrets many of them hope will stay buried. Soon, Laura finds herself thrown deep in the mire of Andrew’s destructive path, and once again must fight to be believed.

Booking details

Tickets at screenings for RTS Members are complimentary but must be booked in advance. Tickets for non RTS members are £10.

Book tickets

If Loving You Is Wrong
News

If Loving You is Wrong cancelled; Silent Witness and The Syndicate renewed; + more

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

Internet TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Ray Donovan
News

Ray Donovan cancelled; Jägarna renewed; House of Payne revived; + more

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

Internet TV

International TV

Nordic TV

UK TV

US TV

New US TV shows

  • BET green lights: revival of House of Payne and self-explanatory comedy Assisted Living
  • CBS green lights: pilot of political thriller Ways & Means, with Patrick Dempsey…
  • …and pilots of comedies Ghosts, Please Hold For Frankie Wolfe, The Three of Us and an untitled mother-daughter project
  • Hivemind et al developing: adaptation of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead
  • MRC developing: adaptation of Jack Carr’s The Terminal List, with Chris Pratt

New US TV show casting

The Stranger
Streaming TV

Boxset Monday: The Stranger (Netflix)

Available on Netflix

Of all the crime authors who seem to be doing very well out of the globalisation of TV, Harlan Coben has to be at the forefront. We’ve had The Five on Sky in the UK and Juste un regard (Just One Look) on TF1 in France; meanwhile, on Netflix we’ve had the UK-based Safe, with a Spanish version of The Innocent and a Polish version of The Woods on their way. And right now, we have another UK Coben production – The Stranger.

Which is odd, really, since most of his books are set in the US and no US network has so far chosen to adapt any of his books. I wonder why?

Safe, of course, despite being set in Manchester, starred a couple of global TV megastars – America’s Michael C Hall (Six Feet Under, Dexter) and France’s Audrey Fleurot (Engrenages, Les témoins). However, The Stranger is almost exclusive populated with home-grown talent, albeit UK and Irish actors who have also done very well out of TV and film globalisation themselves.

Richard Armitage in The Stranger
Richard Armitage in The Stranger

No Stranger

The star of The Stranger is none other than TMINE’s very own Dick Head (retired), Richard Armitage (Robin Hood, Strike Back, Berlin Station, Hannibal, Captain America: The First Avenger). Armitage is a regular lawyer and family man living in an unnamed town that looks suspiciously like various parts of Greater Manchester. He seems happy, despite the fact his mate/client Stephen Rea’s house is about to be knocked down by a firm owned by his very own father (Buffy‘s Anthony Head). He also seems to love his wife (Dervla Kirwan) very much.

Then a complete stranger confronts him one day: Hannah John-Kamen (Killjoys, The Tunnel, Ant-Man and the Wasp). She tells him a secret about Kirwan that turns Armitage’s world upside down. But Armitage isn’t the only one who has secrets, and soon everyone’s having to deal with their private lives being revealed.

And decapitated alpacas.

Continue reading “Boxset Monday: The Stranger (Netflix)”
Yes Minister
BFI events

What TV’s on at the BFI in March 2020? Including Doctor Who and Yes Minister

And it’s a very quiet March for TV at the BFI. While there’s a plethora of movies to watch, there’s a mere two TV events lined up. But they are pretty decent at least:

  • Yes Minister at 40, with a showing of Party Games and co-creator Jonathan Lynn in conversation
  • A showing of the Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang, complete with Q&A with Louise Jameson (aka Leela)

All the info after the jump.

Continue reading “What TV’s on at the BFI in March 2020? Including Doctor Who and Yes Minister”