Well Intended Love
Airdates

When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Well Intended Love, The Other Two, High Seas and The Act

10 May 2019 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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

As usual, it’s mostly Netflix shows announcing airdates this week, but we have a few others.

Acquisitions

The following shows have been acquired this week, but don’t yet have a premiere date:

  • Netflix has picked up the South Korean version of its own series, Designated Survivor. CJ ENM’s Designated Survivor: 60 Days will be available on Netflix some time in July
  • It’s also picked up SBS (South Korea)’s stuntman spy drama Vagabond. That’s going to be available on Netflix in September.

Premiere dates

Well Intended Love

Well Intended Love (China: Sohu TV; UK: Netflix)

Premiere date: Friday, May 17

To receive a bone marrow transplant sooner and to continue her career, an actress with leukaemia enters into a secret marriage with the CEO of a company. Despite the conspiracies and misunderstandings they encounter, the two find true love.

The Other Two

The Other Two (US: Comedy Central; UK: E4)

Premiere date: Thursday, May 23, 10pm

The Other Two is a satire of the entertainment industry that takes a cynically witty look at fame, success and belonging. The story follows siblings Cary (Drew Tarver) and Brooke (Helene Yorke) who are trying to find their place in the world. Cary is an aspiring actor, struggling to find roles. Brooke, a former professional dancer, is just trying to work out what she’s doing with her life. But it all becomes a little more complicated when their 13-year-old brother Chase (Case Walker) finds sudden internet fame as teen pop sensation ChaseDreams…

Along with Hollywood-ready mother Pat (Molly Shannon) and newly hired manager Streeter (Ken Marino), Cary and Brooke must work hard to simultaneously cash in on their brother’s success and help him as he grows up in this crazy new world.

Episode reviews: 1

Netflix's High Seas

High Seas (Netflix)

Premiere date: Friday, May 24

Spanish original. It’s the 1940s and the Bárbara de Braganza has just departed from Spain for Rio de Janeiro. Two sisters, Eva (Ivana Baquero) and Carolina (Alejandra Onieva), are as different as they are inseparable; and a handsome officer, Nicolás Sala (Jon Kortajarena), a man that fate has put in the wrong place, team together to solve a mystery – the murder of a passenger whose name does not appear in the passenger list and who no one remembers.

Also stars: Jose Sacristán and Eloy Azorín

Hulu's The Act

The Act (US: Hulu; UK: StarzPlay)

Premiere date: Friday, June 14

The Act is an anthology series telling a new true-crime story each season. The first season follows Gypsy Blanchard, a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother. Her quest for independence opens a Pandora’s box of secrets, one that ultimately leads to murder.

Stars: Patricia Arquette, Joey King, Chloë Sevigny and AnnaSophia Robb.

Vicky McClure in I Am Nicola
BAFTA events

What (yet more) TV’s on at BAFTA in May? Including I Am Nicola

10 May 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Every Tuesday, TMINE flags up what new TV events BAFTA is holding around the UK

Every Thursday, it says there. I looked at the listings yesterday – there were no new additions.

But now there’s one today. That’s just typical.

TV Preview: I Am Nicola

Tuesday, 28 May 2019 – 7:00pm
Princess Anne Theatre, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN

A preview of the new Channel 4 drama followed by a Q+A with Vicky McClure, Perry Fitzpatrick, Dominic Savage and Krishnendu Majumdar.

I Am Nicola is a deeply moving story of a couple who find themselves stuck in a dysfunctional and coercive relationship. The audience is given an often-uncomfortable fly on the wall view into the fleeting ups and devastating downs of a tumultuous relationship. Condensing the lifespan of a couple down to its most pivotal moments.

Each film in the I Am series has been developed in partnership with the leading actors and examines themes including relationships, identity and empowerment. The trilogy explores the experience of three women in moments that are emotionally raw, thought-provoking and very personal. Samantha Morton stars in I Am Kirsty and Gemma Chan in I Am Hannah. I Am Nicola is written and directed by BAFTA-winning Dominic Savage (The Escape), story by Dominic Savage and Vicky McClure and produced by Krishnendu Majumdar

Book tickets

Angie Tribeca
News

Angie Tribeca, Power, For The People cancelled; six CBS shows renewed; + more

10 May 2019 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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

Internet TV

  • Trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It
  • Netflix green lights: ballet-dancer bride-to-be period Spanish mini-series Alguien Tiene Que Morir (Someone Has To Die)…
  • …acquires: CJ ENM (S Korea)’s Designated Survivor: 60 Days and SBS (S Korea)’s Vagabond

Australian TV

  • 9Go!/9Now green light: series of sexual health clinic comedy Metro Sexual, with Riley Nottingham and Geraldine Hickey

UK TV

  • BBC One green lights: mini-series adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Rutger Hauer et al

US TV

US TV show casting

  • Dustin Nguyen promoted to regular, Chan Tang, Celine Buckens, Miranda Raison join, Maria Elena Laas to recur on Cinemax’s Warrior

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Scott Wolf replaces Freddie Prinze Jr on The CW’s Nancy Drew
Dead To Me
Streaming TV

What have you been watching? Including Dead to Me

9 May 2019 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

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

Cobrai Kai – season 2

This week’s reviews

Despite yet another Bank Holiday weekend, TMINE did as good as it promised and dished you all up not one but two boxsets

Meanwhile, Orange Wednesday‘s film reviews gave us a Chinese-language double-bill of The Wandering Earth (2019) and The Water Margin (1973).

TVNZ On Demand’s Educators

What’s coming this week

Lovely Wife hasn’t felt motivated enough to watch Starz (US)’s The Spanish Princess and doesn’t seem likely to change her mind about that for a while, so we won’t be looking at that.

However, coming this week to our TV screens are the following shows, which I’ll rate in terms of the chance I’ll bother watching and reviewing them:

Also potentially up for review are some shows that I didn’t have time to watch this week and which in some cases were online-only:

  • Mr Black (Australia: Ten) – likely
  • The 410 (Canada: CBC Gem) – possible
  • Educators (New Zealand: TVNZ OnDemand) – possible

But they may all end up in one big WHYBW next week.

One show I did start watching is Netflix’s Dead to Me, but you can read about that after the jump.

The original cast of What We Do In The Shadows and Tilda Swinton
The original cast of What We Do In The Shadows (2014) and Tilda Swinton in FX (US)’s What We Do In The Shadows

The regulars

We’re down to quite small numbers of regulars, but after the jump I’ll be talking about the latest episodes of Doom Patrol, Game of Thrones, The Twilight Zone, Warrior, and What We Do In the Shadows.

See you in a mo.

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