UK TV

An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.

Kim Bodnia and Jodie Comer in Killing Eve
News

Amazon’s 20 new and returning international shows; Viaplay’s Commando and Cryptid; a Holby City/Casualty crossover; + more

15 February 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Internet TV

  • Amazon green lights/renews: 20 international series, including adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s The Power, María Dueñas’ La Templanza, El Cid, 80s Milan crime drama, adaptation of Annette Hess’ Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (We Children of Bahnhof Zoo), Indian romantic comedy Bandish Bandits, and Himalayas crime thriller The Last Hour
  • Trailer for season 1 of Amazon’s Hanna

International TV

  • MGM developing: adaptation of Richard Dominguez’s El Gato Negro: Nocturnal Warrior

Scandinavian TV

UK TV

US TV

  • Teaser for season 2 of BBC America’s Killing Eve

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV shows casting

  • Liza Lapira joins ABC’s The Hypnotist’s Love Story
  • Kennedy McMann to star, Leah Lewis to co-star in The CW’s Nancy Drew pilot
  • Caitlin McGee to star in NBC’s Bluff City Law
  • Gabriel Bateman to star, Kyla-Drew Simmons to co-star in Syfy’s Cipher
  • Emily Alyn Lind, Jacob McCarthy, Cayden Boyd et al to star in Syfy’s (Future) Cult Classic
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
News

Jack Ryan renewed; a Brave New World TV series; new German, Norwegian Netflix shows; + more

14 February 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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The Likely Lads
Events

What TV’s on at the Prince Charles Cinema in March? Including a celebration of the Likely Lads

13 February 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Prince Charles Cinema off Leicester Square is a nice little place for watching cult movies. TV? Not so much… until now, since as well as a showing of The Likely Lads movie, it’s showing two newly recovered episodes of the TV series and will be running a Q&A with the show’s creators, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

Tuesday 12 March

MORE THAN LIKELY : A CELEBRATION OF THE LIKELY LADS

The Likely Lads (1976)
Directed by Michael Tuchner
Starring James Bolam, Rodney Bewes
feat. Q&A with writers Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
1976 / 1965 | 138mins | UK | rated (15)
Doors at 18:30 / Event Finishes approx 22:20

Spinning off from the BAFTA-winning 1970s sequel to the incredibly popular 1960s sitcom, James Bolam and Rodney Bewes star in this 1976 movie as Terry Collier and Bob Ferris, two life-long friends with vastly different outlooks on life. This feature presentation has been beautifully restored from original film elements.

And the night just gets better – for the very first time since they last aired over 50 years ago, we present two recently recovered episodes from the original BBC TV series:

A Star is Born: With one eye on a £25 prize and the other on Rhona the barmaid, Terry enters himself and Bob as a singing duo in a talent night at the local: but the lads can’t agree on the choice of song, or who gets first billing in the group name…

Far Away Places: The lads are contemplating their summer holiday, but lack of money is a problem: as is the choice of destination. Bob favours the continent, while Terry is all for tradition and can’t be persuaded to go abroad…

Then, to round off the evening, Likely Lads creators Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais will join us for a very special Q&A session.

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Checkout
News

Checkout! renewed; Netflix’s 50 Mexican series; The Rebels from No 69; + more

13 February 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Israeli TV

Scandinavian TV

UK TV

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Siddiq Saunderson et al join Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga 
  • Sarah Wayne Callies, Michele Weaver, J August Richards et al to star in NBC’s Council of Dads
Derry Girls
BAFTA events

What (still yet more) TV’s on at BAFTA in February? Including Derry Girls

12 February 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Every week or so, TMINE flags up what new TV events BAFTA is holding around the UK

February’s BAFTA bounty never seems to end. Still nothing for March, but after our previous five separate announcements for February, here’s a sixth. Amazing stuff.

TV Preview: Derry Girls

Thursday, 21 February 2019 – 6:45pm
Princess Anne Theatre, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN

A preview of the second series of the hit Channel 4 comedy by a Q+A with the creative team.

Derry Girls is the creation of acclaimed writer Lisa McGee and follows Erin (Saoirse Monica Jackson), Orla (Louisa Harland), Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell) and James (Dylan Llewellyn) as they navigate their teens in Derry in the early 1990s.

It’s a time of armed police in armoured Land Rovers and British Army checkpoints. But it’s also the time of Murder She Wrote, The Cranberries, MJ and Lisa Marie, Doc Martens, bomber jackets, The X Files, Nirvana and Wayne’s World.

Commissioned for Channel 4 by Head of Comedy Fiona McDermott and Commissioning Editor Jack Bayles, Derry Girls is a commission for Hat Trick Productions and is a showcase of creative talent from Northern Ireland, entirely set and made locally.

We will be screening the first two episodes followed by a Q+A with writer Lisa McGee, cast Saoirse Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Nicola Coughlan and Dylan Llewellyn, and director Michael Lennox.

With thanks to Channel 4.

Tickets will be available to collect from reception.

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