In the US: Wednesdays, 10pm ET, Paramount In the UK: Not yet acquired
The army has become a Hallowed Thing in the US in the past 30 years or so. Maybe it’s a backlash agains the attitudes to Vietnam and those serving in it that spawned numerous scathing dramas and comedies in cinemas and on TV. Whatever the cause, whenever a new TV US show turns up about the army, it’s rarely ‘all knives out’ these days.
Certainly, it’s hard to imagine M*A*S*H lasting 11 seasons and getting 125 million viewers for its final episode now. Soldiers having relationships with one another? Soldiers trying to get discharged for wearing women’s clothing? Inconceivable.
And you can tell that not pure conjecture on my part by looking at the reaction to 68 Whiskey, an adaptation Yes (Israel)’s Charlie Golf One that it is pretty much a M*A*S*H for our times. Or at least something that tries to be.
Lolly Adefope to return, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Demetriou, Jessica Lowe et al to recur, Fred Armisen, Anna Drezen, Miles Robbins et al to guest on TBS’s Miracle Workers
New US TV shows
AMC green lights: series of legal drama 61st Street and dark comedy Kevin Can F*** Himself
