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[ 22nd August 2019 ] Stockholm Requiem, AP Bio and Sunnyside acquired; a new Christmas ghost story; + more
[ 21st August 2019 ] Succession, Home renewed; Channel 4’s Lady Parts; + more
[ 20th August 2019 ] Blood renewed; Practical Magic prequel; Beforeigners trailer; + more
[ 19th August 2019 ] Vienna Blood acquired; The Heights renewed; Instinct, Krypton cancelled; + more
[ 19th July 2019 ] What time, TMINE? Including FBI, Fosse/Verdon, Euphoria, I Am The Night and Unbelievable

Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba in LA's Finest

LA’s Finest acquired; Netflix’s German funeral comedy; Dutch Councilman remake; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for Amazon’s The Boys
Trailer for the finale of Amazon’s Transparent
Netflix green lights: German funeral comedy drama The Last Word, with Anke Engelke

Australian TV

Seven green lights: post-modern modern family sitcom Fam Time, with Michala Banas, Benson Jack Anthony, Duncan Fellows et al

European TV

BNNVARA/NPO3 (Netherlands) green lights: remake of TV2 (Norway)’s The Councilman as Harkum

UK TV

Fox UK acquires: Spectrum (US)’s LA’s Finest
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo to star in Channel 4’s Deadwater Fell

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Starz’s Sweetbitter

US TV show casting

Matt Hobby promoted to regular on CBS’s Young Sheldon
Corey Fogelmanis, Annie Q, Jessi Case et al to guest on Hulu’s Into the Dark
Elizabeth Hurley joins Hulu’s Marvel’s Runaways
Kate Miner promoted to regular on Showtime’s Shameless
Denise Crosby to recur on USA’s Suits

New US TV shows

Playtone developing: Sammy Davis Jr mini-series Sammy
WarnerMedia developing: adaptation of podcast Over My Dead Body

New US TV show casting

Ivan Sergei joins Fox’s BH90210

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Review: In the Dark 1×1 (US: The CW)

8th April 2019 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

In the US: Thursdays, 9pm ET, The CW
In the UK: Not yet acquired

There is considerable feminist discourse around the concept of ‘likability’. Female politicians, such as Hillary Clinton, are considered ‘unlikable’ and therefore considered vote-losers, in a way male politicians rarely are. Does anyone think Rand Paul or Chuck Schumer are likeable? No, yet they still get elected and are considered (for some reason) via politicians.

In the Dark feels like an effort to push ‘the Overton Window‘ on female ‘likability’ using the ingenious aegis of disability. It sees Perry Mattfeld (Shameless US) playing Murphy, a woman whose life is a bit of a mess. She became blind at the age of 14 and was fostered by the owners of a guide dog charity (The West Wing‘s Kathleen York and The Whispers‘s Derek Webster), for which she now ‘works’. I say works, because most of the time she’s getting drunk, waking up from a one-night-stand or both. Or is off smoking with a teenage drunk-dealer who once saved her life.

Mattfield is even more self-destructive than that sounds. “You only care about yourself,” York yells at her after Mattfield has just slept with a married donor to the impoverished charity, resulting in the cancellation of his wife’s $10,000 donation.

“It’s pretty obvious I don’t care about myself. At all,” Mattfield replies.

Which isn’t entirely true, though. While most of the first episode revolves around Mattfield’s self-destruction and self-pity, there is another thread to the plot: the disappearance and possible murder of her teenage drug-dealer friend. That prompts Mattfield to try to persuade everyone that he has disappeared, even though his body goes missing soon after she finds it.

When that fails, she tries to solve the crime herself, with a little help from her friend Brooke Markham (Foursome) and the missing drug-dealer’s cousin/boss (Blood and Oil‘s Keston John).

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Fuller House, Shameless, almost all CW shows renewed; The L Word revived; + more

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Internet TV

Netflix renews and cancels: Fuller House
James Scully and Jenna Ortega join Netflix’s YOU
Patrick J Adams to recur on Amazon’s Sneaky Pete
YouTube developing: sci-fi dramedy Jeff of the Universe

Canadian TV

CTV green lights: series of Syrian refugee medical procedural The Transplant

Scandinavian TV

John Simm, Caroline Goodall, Pihla Viitala et al to star in Viaplay (Finland)’s Cold Courage
NRK (Norway) green lights: Anders Breivik reaction drama 22 July
Viaplay green lights: Danish psychological drama Face to Face, with Ulrich Thomsen, Lars Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas et al

UK TV

Trailer for BBC One’s Baptiste
Channel 4 green lights: series of Scottish crime drama Deadwater Fell
STV Productions developing: adaptations of Damian Barr’s Maggie and Me and Kirstin Innes’ Fishnet

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of CBS All Access’ The Good Fight
Trailer for season 3B of Freeform’s Shadowhunters
The CW renews: Arrow, Black Lightning, Charmed, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Dynasty, The Flash, Legacies, Riverdale, Supergirl and Supernatural
Showtime renews: Shameless

US TV show casting

Michelle Forbes to guest on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy
Drea De Matteo to recur on ABC’s A Million Little Things
Eden Sher joins The CW’s Jane The Virgin
Jennifer Jason Leigh to recur on Showtime’s The Affair
Michael Raymond-James to recur on Showtime’s Billions

New US TV shows

Teaser for Hulu’s Shrill
ABC green lights: pilots of long-lost siblings drama Heart of Life…
…revival of New York Undercover…
…and former teen moms comedy Woman Up
CBS green lights: pilots of resurrected cop drama Frankenstein, independent New Hampshire town drama Republic of Sarah and legal drama Courthouse…
…and 20something list challenge comedy To Whom It May Concern
Disney+ green lights: series of middle school girl comedy Diary of a Female President
Showtime green lights: limited series of New Orleans legal thriller Your Honor, with Bryan Cranston…
…series sequel to The L Word

New US TV show casting

Kether Donohue joins ABC’s Happy Accident
Sarunas J Jackson and Jackie Long to star in BET’s Games People Play
Brenda Song and Lex Scott Davis join Hulu’s Dollface

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Coroner acquired; Only Fools and Horses musical; Little Drummer Girl, Dirty John trailers; + more

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Internet TV

Katherine LaNasa replaces Moon Bloodgood on Apple’s Are You Sleeping
Facebook Watch developing: adaptation of podcast Limetown, with Jessica Biel

Theatre

Tom Bennett, Ryan Hutton and Paul Whitehouse to star in Only Fools and Horses: The Musical

UK TV

Universal TV acquires: CBC (Canada)’s Coroner

US TV show casting

Cameron Monaghan exits Showtime’s Shameless

New US TV shows

Trailer for AMC’s The Little Drummer Girl
Trailer for Bravo’s Dirty John
Trailer for The CW’s Legacies
The CW extends: All American, Charmed and Legacies
ABC green lights: series former teen mums comedy Woman Up
CBS green lights: series of mum-turned-doctor comedy Second Act, with Patricia Heaton
Fox21 developing: adaptation of Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files
TNT green lights: series of android protectors drama Raised By Wolves

New US TV show casting

Kimberley Crossman to co-star in ABC’s Sue Sue in the City
Rafi Gavron joins Epix’s Godfather of Harlem
Caitlin Mehner and Tembi Locke to recur on Fox’s Proven Innocent

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Counterpart, No Activity acquired; Emmy Rossum quits Shameless; Alex renewed; + more

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Internet TV

YouTube Premium green lights: pilot of blacklisted female game-designer comedy It’s A Man’s World
Damon Herriman to play Charles Manson in Netflix’s Mindhunter
Starzplay acquires: Star (US)’s Counterpart
Blake Jenner joins Netflix’s What/If
Jacqueline Obradors to recur on Amazon’s Bosch
Efrat Dor to recur on Amazon’s Sneaky Pete
Jennifer Esposito joins Amazon’s The Boys
Shantel VanSanten and Wrenn Schmidt join Apple’s space race drama
Jane Krakowski to co-star in Apple’s Dickinson
Blu Hunt joins Netflix’s Another Life

German TV

Intaglio Films developing: adaptation of Frank Schaetzing’s The Swarm

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay renews: Alex

UK TV

Anca Dumitra, Allen Leech, Tom Glynn-Carney et al join BBC Two’s Doing Money
BBC Two acquires: Stan (Australia)’s No Activity
Sophie Cookson to star in BBC One’s The Trial of Christine Keeler

US TV

Epix green lights: series of dangerous pastor modern con noir drama Our Lady, Ltd, with Ben Kingsley and Jimmi Simpson

US TV show casting

Trailer for season 2 of ABC’s The Good Doctor, featuring Lisa Edelstein
Emmy Rossum to leave Showtime’s Shameless
Jaleel White to guest on ABC’s Fresh off the Boat

New US TV shows

Bohemia Group Originals developing: adaptation of Susan M Boyer’s Liz Talbot Mysteries
Teaser for HBO’s My Brilliant Friend

New US TV show casting

Robert Wisdom to recur on ABC’s The Fix
Malik Yoba to recur on CBS’s God Friended Me
Alan Tudyk to play Mr Nobody in DC Universe’s Doom Patrol
Jessica Miesel to recur on USA’s The Purge

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New US TV shows

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Theatre

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New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

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

Internet TV

German TV

Scandinavian TV

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

In the US: Thursdays, 9pm ET, The CW
In the UK: Not yet acquired