Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn in Star Trek: Discovery
News

ABC’s KGB; Miranda Richardson joins Game of Thrones prequel; + more

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

Internet TV

  • Trailer for Netflix’s Z-Nation spin-off Black Summer
  • Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
  • Alba Baptista to star, Toya Turner, Tristan Ulloa, Thekla Reuten et al join Netflix’s Warrior Nun

Australian TV

Canadian TV

  • New Metric Media developing: adaptations of Michael Arntfield’s Monster City, Peter Edwards books, and Anne T Donahue’s Nobody Cares

International TV

UK TV

  • Trailer for BBC One’s Gentleman Jack
  • Trailer for series 4 of ITV’s The Durrells

US TV show casting

  • Tika Sumpter, Andres Holm, Gary Cole et al to guest on ABC’s Black-ish in backdoor pilot
  • Ansom Mount and Rebecca Romijn leave CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery
  • Rhea Seehorn and Michael McKean to guest on HBO’s Veep

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Turn Up Charlie
Streaming TV

Review: Turn Up Charlie (season one) (Netflix)

Available on Netflix

I imagine the Venn diagram of:

  • Set A: People who watch lots of TV and then write reviews of it on blogs
  • Set B: People who go out clubbing every night and/or DJ in Ibiza

Is two separate circles (ie A∩B=∅).

Indeed, I imagine that if we added another set to that list – Set C: people who use Venn diagrams – A∩C is going to be me. And just me.

So although I have actually been to Ibiza – very lovely monasteries and churches, and the views on Formentera are lovely…

TMINE on Formentera

…my ability to judge the reality of Netflix’s new comedy original, Turn Up Charlie, in which Idris Elbra plays a former hit DJ who’s now down on his luck and forced to play weddings for his mates, is severely limited. That said, there’s a real verisimilitude to both it and its take on London and British life that’s quite arresting.

The turning point for Elba is the return to London of his former best mate at school now Hollywood actor JJ Feild (Turn), who wants to spend more time with his tween daughter (Frankie Hervey); Feild’s American DJ ‘wife’ Piper Perabo (Covert Affairs, Notorious, Coyote Ugly, The Prestige) wants to do the same, too. However, both are nevertheless super, super busy right now and one day, Elba’s left to look after the precocious Hervey after she causes yet another of her nannies to walk out.

Guess who gets a new job looking after Hervey.

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Then And Now
BFI events

What (more) TV’s on at the BFI in March? Including Remembering Television

Every month, TMINE lets you know what TV the BFI will be presenting at the South Bank in London

A bit of a change from normal, in that the BFI is doing a BAFTA and releasing information about a new event with only a couple of weeks’ notice. It’s also an event that’s not actually being held at the BFI, but is to promote a Bloomsbury Publishing book, Remembering British Television: Audience, Archive and Industry:

Remembering Television: Then and Now

March 28

Bloomsbury Publishing UK
50 Bedford Square, WC1B 3DP London, United Kingdom
Timing: Doors open and complimentary drinks from 6pm. Our guests in conversation, followed by Q&A with audience members, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm.
Tickets: £15 for adults / £10 students and concessions

Step inside Bloomsbury Publishing as we ask how, when ‘television’ no longer means a box in the corner of the living room that we sit and watch together, do we keep safe the television of the past?

What is the past, present and future of television? We’re experiencing a golden age right now with new show-runners, streaming services and unique collaborations popping up every other week but how does this brave new world take its cue from all that came before? Join us as we host a wide-ranging discussion with three self-confessed telly-addicts actively working to preserve the past and inspire future generations of TV creators, producers and writers to come.

Join us as we take another look at television’s history by talking to the people who are making it their mission to keep the unforgettable moments alive for creators, researchers, writers and, most importantly, the fans. Authors of Remembering British Television, Kristyn Gorton and Joanne Garde-Hansen will be in conversation with Dr Elinor Groom, currently TV curator at the British Film Institute (BFI).

Book tickets

Rig 45
News

Rig 45, Teenage Psychic, American Gods renewed; La vengeance aux yeux clairs spin-off; + more

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

Apologies for the delay in today’s news – apparently there was a power cut at the data centre… for eight hours.

Internet TV

French TV

International TV

  • HBO Asia green lights: series of human consciousness thriller Dream Raider, food anthology series Food Lore, mass shooting drama The World Between Us
  • renews: Teenage Psychic

Scandinavian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

  • Azie Tesfai promoted to regular on The CW’s Supergirl

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

One Day At A Time
News

One Day at a Time cancelled; Green Door acquired; Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas reunited; + more

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

Film

  • Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark renamed Newark

Internet TV

UK TV

  • Sky1 green lights: series of national emergency political drama COBRA, with Robert Carlyle, Victoria Hamilton, Richard Dormer et al
  • Alice Eve, Tamsin Greig, Harriet Walter et al to star in ITV’s Belgravia

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting