UK TV

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

Natascha McElhone, Sean Penn and Oded Fehr in The First
News

The First cancelled; Craith renewed; Gillian Anderson is Margaret Thatcher; + more

21 January 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Australian TV

  • Ten green lights: house-sharing drama Five Bedrooms, with Kat Stewart, Stephen Peacocke, Doris Younane et al

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

  • NBC green lights: pilots of widowed dad comedy Saving Kenan with Kenan Thompson and magical workplace comedy Like Magic
  • Trailer for Hulu’s PEN15

New US TV show casting

Kate Beckinsale in The Widow
BAFTA events

What (yet more) TV’s on at BAFTA in February? Including The Widow

18 January 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

BAFTA seems to be adding precisely events to its February line-up at the rate of precisely 1 event/week, so add to the previous two events (Matthew Hall on Writing and a look back at Manhunt) this new one, which is a preview of ITV’s The Widow. I should point out that when I posted a trailer for it on Tuesday, I billed it as Amazon’s The Widow – it’s actually a co-production between ITV and Amazon and will air here on ITV, but the trailer (which you can see below as well) is Amazon’s for overseas audiences.

TV Preview: The Widow

Monday, 18 February 2019 – 6:45pm
Princess Anne Theatre, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN

A preview of the new ITV drama followed by a Q&A with the creative team.

From BAFTA nominated screenwriters Harry & Jack Williams (Liar, The Missing), The Widow tells the story of Georgia Wells (Kate Beckinsale) who has her life turned upside-down with a phone-call in the middle of the night. Her husband of over 10 years, Will, has been reported dead after a plane crash in the Congolese jungle.

Three years later, with her old life now a thing of the past, Georgia learns something shocking. Something that will take her to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, looking to uncover the truth about his disappearance.

The eight-part series is a Two Brothers Production directed by Sam Donovan (Humans, Liar) and Olly Blackburn (Donkey Punch, Glue). With Kate Beckinsale playing the lead role, key cast also includes Alex Kingston (ER, Doctor Who), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones, Godzilla), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (Trapped, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) and Louise Brealey (Sherlock, Clique).

Book tickets

Fam on CBS
US TV

What have you been watching? Including Schooled and Fam

17 January 2019 Rob Buckley 27 Comments

It’s “What have you been watching?”, your chance to recommend to fellow TMINE readers anything you’ve been watching this week

It only took about a week before WHYBW missed its scheduled slot, but given how much new stuff has recently arrived and how much old stuff has returned to Tuesdays and Wednesdays, please forgive me. Still, I was wondering what I was going to do on Thursdays…

The Passage
THE PASSAGE: L-R: Saniyya Sidney and Mak-Paul Gosselaar in THE PASSAGE on FOX. ©2018 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Steve Dietl/FOX

This week’s reviews

To be frank, I’ve done a crap-load of reviews and previews since last time, too.

Please peruse them at your leisure, whether you intend to watch the shows or not.

Schooled
ABC’s Schooled

New shows

Coming up in the next week, I’ll be reviewing The CW’s Roswell reboot, Roswell, New Mexico. Season two of The Punisher will be hitting Netflix this Friday, so I’ll undoubtedly be watching that. And if anything else pops up I’ll review that, too, if I can.

After the jump, though, despite my already extensive viewing schedule, there’ll be reviews of two other new shows I managed to catch: Schooled (US: ABC) and Fam (US: CBS). Gosh, mid-season replacements that are also sitcoms. Cos they’re always funny, hey?

I’ll also be talking about series five of Cuckoo (UK: BBC Three), which I know isn’t a new show and it’s not even a show new to me, but I think it’s probably the first time I’ll have talked about it on the blog.

The Orville

The regulars

Although Counterpart decided to take a break this Sunday, a whole bunch of other shows decided to return this week. That means that after the jump, there’ll be the season (and probably series) finale of the one remaining regular, Happy Together, as well as new episodes of returning regulars Magnum P.I., Corporate and True Detective. Joining them will be the second episodes of both Cavendish and Project Blue Book.

And for reasons that will become clear, I’ll also be talking about every episode of The Orville that’s aired since I gave up on it after its third episode.

See you in a mo…

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Channel Zero
News

Channel Zero, Trial and Error cancelled; Rush acquired; + more

17 January 2019 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

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UK TV acquisitions

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UK TV

  • Robert James-Collier and Charlie Hardwick join Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge
  • Robert Bathurst, Kevin McNally, Bernard Cribbins et al to star in Gold’s Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes

US TV

US TV show casting

  • MAJOR. to recur on Fox’s Star

New US TV shows

Kate Bush
UK TV

Thirty five years ago today, Kate Bush launched Sky TV

16 January 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Well, somebody had to, I guess. But why Kate Bush?

In case you’re wondering, it was called Satellite Television Ltd when it was founded in November 1980, but Rupert Murdoch’s News International bought a 65% stake in the company on 27 June 1983 and it was renamed Sky Television on 16th January 1984 – yes, this day, 35 years ago.