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An archive of articles about US television programmes and production.

Origin
News

Origin cancelled; Frankie Drake, Murdoch Mysteries, 911, The Resident, et al renewed; + more

26 March 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

Internet TV

  • YouTube cancels: Origin and Overthinking with Kat & June
  • Apple to launch Apple TV+ streaming service on Apple devices, Roku, Amazon Fire et al starting in May
  • Trailer for Apple’s The Morning Show, See, Dickinson, For All Mankind, et al
  • Netflix green lights: Norwegian 24-hour partner hunt comedy-drama Home For Christmas, with Elise Broch, Felix Sandman, Kingsford Siayor et al…
  • …and Turkish supernatural drama The Gift, with Beren Saat

Canadian TV

  • CBC renews: Frankie Drake Mysteries, Murdoch Mysteries, Heartland, Kim’s Convenience, Burden of Truth et al

European TV

International TV

UK TV

US TV

  • Fox renews: 911 and The Resident
  • Trailer for season 4B of The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

  • Trailers for CBS All Access’ The Twilight Zone
  • HBO developing: drama set in Sebastian A Jones’s Asunda universe

New US TV show casting

The OA
Streaming TV

Boxset Monday: The OA – Part II (Netflix)

25 March 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Available on Netflix

When The OA first came to Netflix, it was to minimal fanfare. Just as Stranger Things came to us with almost no publicity, so The OA came with a not especially informative trailer and a title and that was about it.

Then, of course, we got to watch them and marvel in projects that at times bordered on genius. The first season of The OA wasn’t exactly plain sailing or without its ups and downs, however. Indeed, it took me a little while to get through all the episodes, rather than just boxsetting them (episode reviews: 1, 2-4, 5-8).

But Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s story about a blind girl (Marling) who disappeared and then reappeared seven years later, her sight restored, and now claiming to be ‘The OA’ (the original angel), was nevertheless a stunningly original piece of work, unlike pretty much anything you’ll see on TV, outside David Lynch’s most auteured piece. In parts supernatural, in parts fairy tale, it was a musing on a musing on the power of storytelling – and of the need to tell stories – as well as of art, music, dance, nature, life, love, masculinity, femininity and more.

The ending, however, wasn’t so much ambiguous as diminishing, suggesting that the whole thing was just made up by The OA based on things she’d seen and read, in the style of The Usual Suspects.

Marling also suggested that she hadn’t even considered a second season and that was that for the story – until the show’s success inevitably resulted in its renewal.

Britt Marling in Netflix’s The OA

A fairytale sequel

What then for season two – or Part II as it now is? How do you create a sequel to a fairy tale? And how do you do it when you no longer have the element of surprise, as you did with your first season?

As you might expect, Marling’s answer is not whatever answer you just came up with but is something staggeringly different. Indeed, there’s one key line in Part II that sums it up: “I think logic is over-rated.”

And I mean that in a good way, because in terms of ideas, I’d say Britt Marling is the closest we now have to a young, female David Lynch. Or maybe David Lynch is just the older male version of Marling.

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Supernatural - season 1
News

Supernatural cancelled; The Conners, Marvel’s Runaways renewed; + more

25 March 2019 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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

Internet TV

  • Bridgit Mendler and Brent Morin to star, Ashley Tisdale, Adam Rose and Hayes MacArthur to co-star in Netflix’s Merry Happy Whatever
  • Judith Light and Bette Midler join Ryan Murphy’s The Politician

International TV

UK TV

  • Trailer for series 2 of Sky Atlantic’s Riviera

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Bad Banks
Airdates

When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Bad Banks, Tijuana, Ms Fisher and Black Summer

22 March 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Every Friday, TMINE lets you know when the latest TV shows from around the world will air in the UK

One new acquisition with a premiere date this week. The rest we already knew about but were just waiting to hear when they’d air…

Premiere dates

Bad Banks

Bad Banks (Germany: ZDF/Arte; UK: Channel 4)
Premiere date: Thursday, 4 April, 11.05pm

It’s taken more than a year between acquisition and airing, but finally we know Bad Banks is going to air in a couple of weeks. It’s billed as a “sophisticated financial drama from Germany about a young, ambitious investment banker who is drawn into a merciless and convoluted power play after being wrongly fired from her prestigious job”.

I watched the trailer. I can’t say I agree.

Tijuana

Tijuana (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, April 5

Netflix Mexican original. When a prominent politician is murdered, the intrepid journalists of Frente Tijuana risk their lives to uncover the truth.

Stars: Damián Alcázar, Tamara Vallarta and Rolf Petersen.

Ms Fisher and Steed

Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (Australia: Seven; UK: Alibi)
Premiere date: Wednesday, April 10, 9pm

Spin-off series of TV movies from ABC’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries set in the 1960s that sees the original Miss Fisher’s niece, Geraldine Hakewill, get dragged into the investigating business when her previously unknown to her aunt disappears. Has Hakewill inherited any of Miss Fisher’s skills?

No, she hasn’t. But with the help of some other adventuresses, a bit of working class moxie and more 60s clichés than you can shake a lava lamp at, she might still save the day.

Best thought of not just as the Tara King version of The Avengers to Miss Fisher‘s Cathy Gale, but also as something almost unrelated to the original. It’s a diverting enough show, but without any real attractions.

Episode reviews: 1

Black Summer

Black Summer (Netflix)
Premiere date: Thursday, April 11

US Netflix original prequel to Syfy (US)’s Z Nation, in which mother Jaime King is separated from her daughter, so embarks on a harrowing journey on which she’ll stop at nothing to find her. Thrust alongside a small group of American refugees, she must brave a hostile new world and make brutal decisions during the most deadly summer of a zombie apocalypse.

Yeah, not watching that.

Schitt's Creek
News

Schitt’s Creek cancelled; Deadwood movie teaser trailer; + more

22 March 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

Internet TV

Canadian TV

UK TV

US TV

  • Teaser for season 2 of Syfy’s Krypton
  • Teaser for HBO’s Deadwood: The Movie

US TV show casting

  • Alimi Ballard and Pepe Rapazote to recur on USA’s Queen of the South

New US TV shows

  • Teaser for Epix’s Godfather of Harlem

New US TV show casting