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What TV’s on at the BFI in March? Including Cheat, The Macra Terror and Walter Iuzzolino

5 February 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

If you like European plays, you’ll love March at the BFI, as there’s going to be a season of TV adaptations of European plays from down through the ages. Centrepiece of the season is a Q&A with Walter Iuzzolino of Walter Presents… fame, discussing with others including Cherie Lunghi, the British attitude to European TV.

If you dislike European plays, there’s some animated Doctor Who with assistant Anneke Wills and a preview of ITV’s Cheat that includes a Q&A with cast and crew. Full details after the jump…

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The Walking Dead, New Amsterdam renewed; Legion, Age Before Beauty cancelled; + more

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Internet TV

Rosanna Arquette to recur on Netflix’s Ratched

Comedy Central acquires: Comedy Central (US)’s Time Traveling Bong
BBC One cancels: Age Before Beauty
DistroTV to launch in the UK
UKTV developing: adaptation of Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive

US TV

AMC renews: The Walking Dead
NBC renews: New Amsterdam
FX ends: Legion

US TV show casting

Harry Lloyd and Stephanie Corneliussen to guest on FX’s Legion

New US TV shows

Trailer for FX’s What We Do In the Shadows
ABC green lights: pilots of modern married ministry comedy with Leslie Odom Jr and brash mother-in-law comedy Nana, with Katey Sagal
Freeform green lights: series of Party of Five reboot
FX green lights: series of DC’s Y: The Last Man adaptation
HBO developing: dirty cop drama Dirty Thirty

New US TV show casting

Ashleigh Murray joins The CW’s Katy Keene
Jake Austin Walker and Meg DeLacy join DC Universe’s Stargirl
Timothy Spall to recur on Epix’s Our Lady, LTD

Travelers canceled; Sex Education renewed; 70s ritualised cannibalism; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix cancels: Travelers…
…renews: Sex Education…
…green lights: selfie-celebrity community service sitcom Team Kaylie
Laysla De Oliveira joins, Kevin Alves to recur on Netflix’s Locke & Key
Ambyr Childers promoted to regular on Netflix’s You

International TV

TVN (Chile) developing: gender-related crimes drama La Jauría, with Daniela Vega, Anotnia Zegers and María Gracia Omegna
NV Studios (South Africa) developing: powerful historical tale, 1970s US psychological examination and LA/Australian MDMA producer drama

Australian TV

Trailer for Nine’s Bad Mothers
Screen Australia to fund: Evonne Goolagong biopic mini-series, dystopian Sophie’s choice drama Aleph, cleaners join ‘the resistance’ sci-fi drama Oddlands and 1970s ritualised cannibalism drama Seconds

UK TV

Trailer for series 2 of ITV2’s Timewasters

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale

US TV show casting

Jordana Brewster to recur on CBS’s Magnum P.I.
Cicely Tyson to return to ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder
Michael Raymond-James to recur on Showtime’s Billions

New US TV shows

Teaser for CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone
The CW developing: gender non-conforming high school graduate drama Glamorous…
…Gossip Girl reboot
NBC developing: local newspaper comedy Village Gazette

New US TV show casting

Domenick Lombardozzi to co-star in HBO’s Mrs Fletcher

The Weekly Play: Armchair Theatre – A Bit of A Lift (1973)

1 February 2019 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Readers of the somewhat irregular and increasingly badly named TMINE feature The Weekly Play will recall classic ITV play strand Armchair Theatre, which as I mentioned here, resulted in numerous classics of the small screen.

While at least some of those plays have been releases on DVD, it’s never (AFAIK) been repeated on TV, beyond the occasional special, but this month changes that. Talking Pictures TV, one of the ‘nosebleed’ channels on your EPG (Virgin 445; Freeview 81; Sky channel 328; Freesat 306; Youview 81), is one of the rare channels out there on UK TV worth watching these days, particularly if you’re a classic film or TV buff. Airing all manner of rarities of both the silver and the small screen – it had Hannay last month and I can see it’s got the Roger Moore The Saint next month, too – it’s worth checking out if you can, although it really could do with a Roku/iOS/Android app, if you ask me.

And starting this Sunday, every week, it’s going to air a play from Armchair Theatre.

The season starts on Sunday with 1973’s A Bit of A Lift, directed by Dennis Vance and starring Ronald Fraser, Ann Beach, Donald Churchill and Denise Shaw.

A man meets a woman at a wedding and manages to sweet talk her, only to end up inadvertently helping out another male.

But it’s also this week’s Weekly Play. What serendipity, hey?

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

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Netflix renews and cancels: Fuller House
James Scully and Jenna Ortega join Netflix’s YOU
Patrick J Adams to recur on Amazon’s Sneaky Pete
YouTube developing: sci-fi dramedy Jeff of the Universe

Canadian TV

CTV green lights: series of Syrian refugee medical procedural The Transplant

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

Trailer for BBC One’s Baptiste
Channel 4 green lights: series of Scottish crime drama Deadwater Fell
STV Productions developing: adaptations of Damian Barr’s Maggie and Me and Kirstin Innes’ Fishnet

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

US TV show casting

Michelle Forbes to guest on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy
Drea De Matteo to recur on ABC’s A Million Little Things
Eden Sher joins The CW’s Jane The Virgin
Jennifer Jason Leigh to recur on Showtime’s The Affair
Michael Raymond-James to recur on Showtime’s Billions

New US TV shows

Teaser for Hulu’s Shrill
ABC green lights: pilots of long-lost siblings drama Heart of Life…
…revival of New York Undercover…
…and former teen moms comedy Woman Up
CBS green lights: pilots of resurrected cop drama Frankenstein, independent New Hampshire town drama Republic of Sarah and legal drama Courthouse…
…and 20something list challenge comedy To Whom It May Concern
Disney+ green lights: series of middle school girl comedy Diary of a Female President
Showtime green lights: limited series of New Orleans legal thriller Your Honor, with Bryan Cranston…
…series sequel to The L Word

New US TV show casting

Kether Donohue joins ABC’s Happy Accident
Sarunas J Jackson and Jackie Long to star in BET’s Games People Play
Brenda Song and Lex Scott Davis join Hulu’s Dollface

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What TV’s on at the BFI in March? Including Cheat, The Macra Terror and Walter Iuzzolino

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

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Travelers canceled; Sex Education renewed; 70s ritualised cannibalism; + more

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The Weekly Play: Armchair Theatre – A Bit of A Lift (1973)

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