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Cain
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What have you been watching? Including The Flatey Enigma and Detective Cain

11 September 2019 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

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

Sacha Baron Cohen in The Spy
Sacha Baron Cohen in The Spy

This week’s reviews

It’s amazing how much easier it is to write TV reviews when there’s no new TV to review, isn’t it? This odd paradox is presumably the only explanation for the large number of boxsets I dropped on you during TMINE’s inaugural ‘Boxsets Week’ (catchy title, hey?):

However, TV’s coming back, so it’s going to be a more regular schedule for the rest of the month, at least.

In fact, after the jump, we can talk about two new shows that have already popped up on UK TV screens in the past week: Flateyjargátan (The Flatey Enigma) and Caïn (Detective Cain).

Toni Collette and Merritt Wever in Unbelievable
Toni Collette and Merritt Wever in Netflix’s Unbelievable

What’s coming this week

Tomorrow is Orange Thursday, of course, and at least one of the movies I’ll be reviewing is Mary Poppins Returns (2018); the other will be whatever I choose to watch tonight.

TV-wise, expect me to be at least glancing at Netflix’s The I-Land and Unbelievable, and I might get around finally to watching season 3 of GLOW as well.

But that’s about it for the premieres at the moment, I think. However, always expect the unexpected.

Esai Morales as Deathstroke in Titans
Esai Morales as Deathstroke in Titans

The regulars

My regular viewing queue is still a small list, but there are signs it’s coming back to life. We’ll be discussing the continuing adventures of False Flag and Glitch, of course, as well as my continuing efforts to catch up with Pennyworth.

But we also have the not quite triumphant return of Titans to consider, too. All of that, after the jump.

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Pennyworth
US TV

What have you been watching? Including Pennyworth

4 September 2019 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

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

The Boys
Amazon’s The Boys

This week’s reviews

Look at that. It’s September. How did that happen, hey?

Cometh September, cometh the regular TMINE schedule and things are now officially back to normal. Almost. This week’s going to be slightly different in that it’s the slightly unscheduled “Week of Boxsets”, as I finally get round to reviewing all the Boxsets I watched over the summer break.

We started on Monday with season 2 of Netflix’s Mindhunter, quickly followed by season 1 of Amazon’s The Boys.

Today is WHYBW, of course, and the streams can’t cross, but tomorrow we’ll continue with season 3 of Canal+’s Le bureau des légendes (The Bureau), with season 4 concluding the “Week of Boxsets” on Friday.

And then on Monday, I’ll try to do another one. Because it’s Boxset Monday.

What will it be? It might be season 3 of GLOW, it might be season 2 of 4 Blocks, but it’s most likely to be the first season of Netflix’s forthcoming The Spy.

Pennyworth
Jack Bannon as Alfred Pennyworth in Epix’s Pennyworth

What’s coming this week

However, that does mean there probably won’t be an Orange Thursday this week, primarily because it’s Wednesday and I’ve not seen any movies this week, but also because I won’t have time tomorrow to write reviews of two movies and a complete season of French TV.

Sorry about that. But I am merely mortal.

I’ve also decided not to bother with Showtime’s forthcoming On Becoming a God in Central Florida, on the general grounds that if it’s not good enough for even YouTube, it’s probably not good enough to watch. Plus I watched a bit of it and came to the same conclusion independently.

But I have watched the first couple of episodes of Pennyworth (US: Epix; UK: StarzPlay), so we can talk about that after the jump.

False Flag
False Flag

The regulars

With TMINE’s “if it starts in August, I’m not watching it rule” and so many shows in the US having now finished, in preparation for the Fall 2019-2020 season, there aren’t many regulars to talk about at the moment. Thank heavens there are other countries, hey?

So after the jump, let’s talk about the latest episodes of Israel’s False Flag and Australia’s Glitch. See you in a mo.

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I Am The Night
Airdates

What time, TMINE? Including FBI, Fosse/Verdon, Euphoria, I Am The Night and Unbelievable

19 July 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

It’s the last What time, TMINE? before TMINE’s summer break, but a two week-absence means that there’s plenty of acquisitions and dates to talk about.

Acquisitions

  • ITV has picked up Company Pictures’ remake of classic 70s ITV show Van Der Valk
  • Alibi has acquired Ten (Australia)’s My Life is Murder, which will hit UK airwaves some time in September
  • Channel Five has got its hands on another Australian show, SBS’s The Hunting, which will air some time this year
  • StarzPlay will be showing Epix (US)’s Batman prequel Pennyworth some time in the autumn
  • Walter Presents has picked up France 2’s Caïn (Detective Cain) for a September start
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News

Pennyworth acquired; Pop’s Best Intentions; + more

11 July 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

The Daily News will return on Monday

Internet TV

UK TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Alexa Mansour, Nicolas Cantu and Hal Cumpston to star in AMC’s new Walking Dead spin-off
  • Tony Goldwyn to guest on HBO’s Lovecraft Country
  • Rory Cochrane, Shane Callahan, Craig Tate et al join Hulu’s Reprisal
Advokaten (The Lawyer)
News

Advokaten acquired; Jude Law joins a cult; Tahiti’s new cops; + more

13 June 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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

Internet TV

  • Rick Glassman, Sue Ann Pien, Albert Rutecki et al to star in Amazon’s On The Spectrum
  • Trailer for Facebook Wach’s Limetown

French TV

UK TV

US TV

  • Trailer for season 3 of HBO’s Divorce

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • LaLa Anthony to guest on ABC’s Reef Break
  • Steven Ogg promoted to regular on TBS’s Snowpiercer