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News
Travelers canceled; Sex Education renewed; 70s ritualised cannibalism; + more
Every weekday, TMINE brings you the latest TV news from around the world
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
Airdates
When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including American Soul, Bite Club, Delhi Crime Story and Störst av allt (Quicksand)
Every Friday, TMINE lets you know when the latest TV shows from around the world will air in the UK
One very odd acquisition without a date this week, but everything else has a premiere announced.
Acquisitions
Netflix has picked up USA (US)’s Dare Me, an adaptation of Megan Abbott’s novel of the same name. I said odd because there isn’t actually a TV series yet – and there wouldn’t be if Netflix hadn’t agreed to distribute it everywhere in the world except the US.
So no premiere date yet… because it hasn’t been made yet.
Premiere dates
American Soul (US: BET; UK: BET International)
Premiere date: Thursday, February 7, 10pm
Drama set behind the scenes of Soul Train, the 1970s US TV show that was the country’s first nationally-syndicated Black music show.
Stars Sinqua Walls, Kelly Price, Jason Dirden, Iantha Richardson, Katlyn Nichol, Jelani Winston and Christopher Jefferson. Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Bobby Brown, K Michelle, Gabrielle Dennis and McKinley Freeman all guest star.
Bite Club (Australia: Nine; UK: Alibi)
Premiere date: Wednesday, February 20, 9pm
Bite Club follows two detectives who, after surviving a shark attack, join forces to hunt the ultimate predator – a serial killer who is also hunting them. Not only are they survivors but also ex-lovers.
Stars Todd Lasance, Ash Ricardo, Damian Walshe-Howling, Deborah Mailman, Robert Mammone, Pia Miller, Marny Kennedy, Darcie Irwin-Simpson and Dominic Monaghan.
Delhi Crime Story (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, March 22
True crime Indian anthology series. The first season follows the notorious December 2012 investigation by the Delhi Police into the horrific gang rape of a young woman, which reverberated across India and the world. It captures the complexities of the scrutiny, the emotional toll on the investigating team, and their determination to bring the perpetrators to justice in a fraught environment.
Stars Shefali Shah, Adil Hussain, Denzil Smith, Rasika Dugal, Rajesh Tailang and Yashaswini Dayama.
Störst av allt (Quicksand) (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, April 5
Swedish Netflix original from the makers of Bron/Broen (The Bridge), based on the book by Malin Persson Giolito.
A mass shooting takes place at a prep school in Stockholm’s wealthiest neighbourhood Djursholm, a normal high school student, Maja Norberg, finds herself on trial for murder. When the events of that tragic day are revealed, so too are the private details about her relationship with Sebastian Fagerman and his dysfunctional family.
Stars Hanna Ardéhn and Felix Sandman.
The Weekly Play
The Weekly Play: Armchair Theatre – A Bit of A Lift (1973)
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?
Film
Ron Burgundy now has a podcast
Anchorman is arguably one of the funniest movies of the 21st century. Anchorman 2 I’ve not even managed to get all the way through it.
But Will Ferrell’s revived Ron Burgundy for a new podcast and it looks to be at least halfway between those two extremes. He also doesn’t seem to have aged much since the 80s…