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Freeform’s upfronts 2018-9 – a rundown and clips from the new shows – Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists

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

As Freeform is the network formerly known as ABC Family, naturally enough it has it Upfronts on the same day as ABC’s. However, as usual with the lesser networks, there’s not actually that many new shows. Besties is now on its way but there’s no trailer, so all Freeform really had to show off was Pretty Little Liars spin-off The Perfectionists. Oh, and Freeform Santa.

Honestly, even though it’s got Kelly Rutherford in the cast, I can’t even be bothered with The Perfectionists, as I really am too old for that now, and it’s a really short trailer, anyway, so you’ll have to do your own hot-take.

Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists

The Long Version

The series features the return of fan favourites Sasha Pieterse as Alison and Janel Parrish as Mona. Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists stars Sofia Carson (Disney’s Descendants) as Ava, Sydney Park (The Walking Dead) as Caitlin, newcomer Eli Brown as Dylan, Graeme Thomas King (The Widow) as Jeremy, Kelly Rutherford (Gossip Girl) as Claire, and Hayley Erin (General Hospital) in an undisclosed role.

In Beacon Heights, a seemingly perfect town, a group of three college friends struggle with the stress of being overachievers. In the aftermath of the town’s first murder, each Perfectionist hides behind a secret, a lie and an alibi. The Perfectionists is also based on a popular book series by Sara Shepard. Marlene King (Pretty Little Liars, Famous in Love) wrote the pilot and serves as an executive producer on the series with Charlie Craig (Pretty Little Liars, The 100), Lisa Cochran-Neilan (Pretty Little Liars, Famous in Love), Leslie Morgenstein (Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries) and Gina Girolamo (The 100, The Originals). The pilot was directed and executive produced by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (Relationship Status). Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists is produced by Alloy Entertainment and Long Lake Media, in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television.

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Not really a show, but worth watching.

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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Nightflyers
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Syfy’s upfronts 2018-9 – a rundown and clips from the new shows – Nightflyers and Deadly Class

15 May 2018 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

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

Since NBC and Syfy are both owned by NBCUniversal, don’t be too surprised that at the same time we got a gander at NBC’s new shows for Fall 2018, we also got to look at Syfy’s. Unlike its UK counterpart which neither makes nor even broadcasts many shows as far as I can tell, Syfy (US) does actually produce TV programmes and it’s got two new ones for us to contemplate watching, even if they’re both almost certainly going to end up on Netflix over here (Nightflyers has already been picked up by Netflix).

Nightflyers

The Short Version

“Psycho in space”, according to that George RR Martin (Game of Thrones), who created it.

The Long Version

Based on the 1980 novella and the 1987 film of the same name, Nightflyers follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of the solar system aboard The Nightflyer – a ship with a small tight-knit crew and a reclusive captain – hoping to make contact with alien life. But when terrifying and violent events begin to take place, they start to question each other, and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought. Gretchen Mol stars.

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Even I can’t work out if this is going to be any good from just a bunch of people standing in a dark room. But that’s them putting their best foot forward, so I have less than high hopes now. Still, I’ve a lot of time for Gretchen Mol and George RR Martin ain’t too shabby either.

Deadly Class

Deadly Class

The Short Version

Harry Potter meets Kick Ass.

The Long Version

Deadly Class, set in a dark comic book world against the backdrop of late-1980s counterculture, follows a homeless teen recruited into a storied private school where the world’s top crime families send their next generations. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques and his adolescent uncertainties soon proves to be vital for the boy. The drama is described as a coming-of-age journey full of ancient mystery and teen angst. Benedict Wong (Marco Polo, Doctor Strange), Benjamin Wadsworth (Teen Wolf) and Lana Condor (X-Men: Apocalypse) are among the show’s cast.

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This does actually look quite fun and the fact the Russo brothers (Captain America: Winter Soldier, Avengers: Infinity War) are behind it and Benedict Wong  is in front of it fills me with some confidence. All the same, Syfy, two shows set in a secret school? Was The Magicians not enough for you?

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Fox’s upfronts 2018-9 – a rundown and clips from the new shows – The Cool Kids, Last Man Standing, Rel, The Passage and Proven Innocent

15 May 2018 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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

Yesterday, we got a look at NBC’s upfront presentation and today, we’re getting a look at Fox’s new shows. Fox isn’t in quite as safe a place as NBC is in the ratings, so unsurprisingly there are a few more new shows in its schedule than NBC’s, with three extra comedies and two more dramas lined up – The Cool Kids, Last Man Standing, Rel, The Passage and Proven Innocent. Perhaps more surprisingly, your eyes aren’t deceiving you and you’re not the victim of one of my lazy copy-and-paste accidents – one of those new shows was cancelled over a year ago by ABC.

Want to know more and exactly when these (and the surviving old shows) will be airing, as well as look at trailers for all of them? And do you want to get TMINE’s hottest of hot first takes? Then follow me after the jump if at least one of those things interests you…

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