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An archive of articles about US television programmes and production.

City on a Hill
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin and iZombie cancelled; Diego Maradona: the series; + more

18 May 2018 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

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  • Showtime green lights: series of ‘Boston miracle’ police operation City on a Hill, starring Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Jonathan Tucker et al

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Magnum PI
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CBS’s upfronts 2018-9 – a rundown and clips from the new shows – Murphy Brown, Magnum, God Friended Me, The Neighborhood and FBI

17 May 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

All through ‘upfronts’ week, TMINE will be revealing the new shows that are going to be hitting US TV screens from September 2018

Not quite the last of the networks, since The CW is even as I type revealing what it’s got lined up for its Fall season (ooh! Sundays!). However, CBS traditionally got last place because it was the king of the ratings. However, as NBC stole that title from it, perhaps because CBS was so wedded to shows targeting an older demographic who are, erm, dying off, it’s now feeling less “who cares whatever anyone else does – we’ve saved the best for last!”, more “please like us, we’ve got stuff, too.”

CBS is at least king of the procedurals and the multi-camera comedy still, so naturally that’s mostly what it’s going to throw in our faces. But having learned with Macgyver, Hawaii Five-O, Roseanne and Will & Grace that if you can’t hit the 60-80 year olds hard any more, you can still hit the middle-aged’s nostalgia button, CBS has unveiled a swamp of remakes for our delights. But what CBS has also discovered this year is that shows about white blokes are running out of steam, so it’s decided to add a little bit of diversity to the mix.

After the jump, then a whole bunch of trailers for procedurals, studio comedies, nostalgia and minoriteams with Murphy Brown, Magnum, Happy Together, God Friended Me, The Neighborhood and FBI. All with TMINE’s trademark hottest of hot takes.

Be warned, though – at least two of them have already been recast so don’t expect the final product necessarily to look the same as the trailers…

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Peter and Sylar
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The Flash gives us the season one finale of Heroes we always wanted

17 May 2018 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Cast your mind back about a decade. Remember Heroes? Remember the first season, where two of the ‘heroes’ went around collecting other people’s powers? How we longed for the final showdown to see them face off against each other and use all their abilities to the max.

Then we got this.

Oh dear. It’s more or less what killed the show. People stopped caring after that. If you promise spectacle, you’d better deliver.

Whatever the reasons for the letdown, whether it be a simple lack of creative ambition, a failure to understand superheroics or the rumoured last-minute salary hike demanded by certain cast members that led to a massive budget cut, Heroes didn’t deliver.

Meanwhile, The Flash has just delivered. Apparently. I gave up on it at the start of this (fourth) season and nothing I’ve heard about it since then has made me think I’ve made the wrong decision. Except for this – a somewhat unexpected fight scene that not only tops the ‘single shot’ Daredevil hallway scene, albeit less acrobatically…

…but finally gives us a hint of what that Heroes season one finale could have been like, even if it is all a bit one-sided. Spoilers ahoy, obviously.

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Sofia Helin in season 4 of Bron/Broen (The Bridge)
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What have you been watching? Including Timeless, Silicon Valley, The Bridge and Harrow

16 May 2018 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

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

So that didn’t quite go as planned. Mais, plus ça change, hey? As well as upfronts week throwing a bit of a spanner in the works in terms of having the time to review and watch things, I spent a bit more of the weekend talking to Microsoft Support than I was planning, so I had even less time than that.

No review of Vida, then, but I’ll try to get one done by next WHYBW, by which point it might be a third-episode verdict anyway. I also hope to review AXN’s new show, Carter, and I might even be able to get through All Night, even though it’s a teen comedy. But we’ll see about that.

In terms of Boxset Monday, my plans were a bit more convoluted. I did make a start on Tabula Rasa on Walter Presents, except I managed about 10 minutes of that before feeling like it was a bit of a struggle. Interesting, but a bit of struggle. I’m going to try to bear with it, since Fans of European and World TV Dramas reckons the second half is ‘amazing’.

But that might not be for a while now, since this weekend, I’m going to try to get through the rest of Netflix’s Safe. See, I had been thinking of having that as a back-up in case I didn’t manage to make it through Tabula Rasa, but given the trailer, I figured I’d be able to just watch the first episode and call it a day, since Michael C Hall’s accent sounded very annoying. Except I ended up watching the first two and quite liking it, and then someone I work with told me she’d boxset the entire series in a day and that the last episode was great.

That’s the plan for next Monday, then. Let’s see how it withstands an encounter with reality.

This weekend saw a lot of changes to the schedules, mind, with new shows coming and old shows going, and TMINE’s viewing schedule has gone through quite a bit. We’ve decided to stop watching The Handmaid’s Tale, at least for now, since it’s just a bit too bleak and miserable. That may change at some point, though. Meanwhile, in the UK, Bron/Broen (The Bridge) is back. Timeless, of course, had a double-episode finale, which meant I didn’t quite have the time to watch the latest Killing Eve, so I’ll do a doubler next week. Mean-meanwhile, Harrow and Silicon Valley both had regular finales, more about which will come after the jump.

That just leaves the other usual regulars: The Americans, The Good Fight, Krypton, Legion, SEAL Team and Westworld. All of that after the jump, too.

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The Rookie
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ABC’s upfronts 2018-9 – a rundown and clips from the new shows – A Million Little Things, The Fix, Grand Hotel, The Kids Are Alright, Whiskey Cavalier, The Rookie and Single Parents

16 May 2018 Rob Buckley Post a comment

All through ‘upfronts’ week, TMINE will be revealing the new shows that are going to be hitting US TV screens from September 2018

NBC, Fox and Syfy have come and gone – now it’s the turn of ABC. ‘The alphabet network’ traditionally ends each year’s schedules with mass cancellations of all its new shows from the previous year, pick-ups of numerous identikits replacements of dubious quality and continuing renewals of its tired out regulars.

This year’s no different and there’s a varied bunch of almost identical shows with surprisingly decent casts to ‘look forward to’ this time around: A Million Little Things, The Fix, Grand Hotel, The Kids Are Alright, Whiskey Cavalier, The Rookie and Single Parents. There’s also Schooled, which is a spin-off from The Goldbergs, but there b’ain’t be no trailer for that yet.

Still, want to know more and exactly when these (and the surviving old shows) will be airing? And do you want to get TMINE’s hottest of hot first takes? Follow me after the jump if at least one of those things interests you…

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