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Mini-reviews: Big Sky and The Flight Attendant

23 November 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Regular readers will have gathered by now that things haven’t really picked up for me in terms of availability, workload or actual ability to watch new TV. But I’m still here, don’t worry, and I reckon I can at least stretch to a mini-review or two now and then…

…Like now. So after the jump, we can talk about two new US shows: Big Sky and The Flight Attendant. See you in a mo.

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TMINE’s Daily Global TV News: Willow TV series; new Dalgliesh, Jo Nesbo adaptations; + more

21 October 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Streaming TV

Amazon green lights: character-driven futuristic sci-fi anthology series
Disney+ green lights: Willow (1988) series with Warwick Davis
Netflix green lights: Turkish time-travel hotel drama Midnight at the Pera Palace…
…’did she see a murder?’ limited series The Woman in the House, with Kristen Bell
IMDb TV developing: adaptation of Tegan and Sara Quin’s High School
Quibi added to Apple TV

UK TV

Channel 4 green lights: series of post-heist crime comedy drama The Curse, with Steve Stamp, Allan Mustafa and Hugo Chegwin
Channel 5/Acorn TV green light: adaptation of PD James’ Inspector Dalgliesh mysteries as Dalgliesh, with Bertie Carvel
Synchronicity developing: adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies
Three Tables developing: period Royal Opera House drama
dplay to become Discovery+

US TV

Katlyn Nichol promoted to regular on ABC’s black-ish
Steven Krueger to recur on The CW’s Roswell, New Mexico

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO Max’s Flight Attendant
HBO green lights: limited series adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s The Son, with Jake Gyllenhaal
Endeavour developing: adaptation of Jennifer Donnelly’s Poisoned
eOne developing: new Power Rangers series
Hulu developing: performance-enhancing drugs drama Wild Rabbit
NBC developing: African-American-owned-hospital drama Family History

New US TV show casting

Anjali Jay to recur on NBC’s Debris
Tosin Morohunfola to star in Starz’s Run The World

Yellowstone, The Blacklist renewed; Shantaram on hold; + more

24 February 2020 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Internet TV

Geoffrey Arend and Brandon Scott join, Obba Babatundé and Elias Koteas to recur on Amazon’s Goliath
Rainn Wilson joins Amazon’s The Power
Kristofer Hivju, Yasen Atour, Agnes Bjorn et al join Netflix’s The Witcher
Apple yellow lights: Shantaram
Netflix developing: English department dramedy The Chair, with Sandra Oh and Jay Duplass
Amazon/RTVE (Spain) developing: Magellan circumnavigation drama Boundless

German TV

RTL green lights: adaptation of Kan (Israel)’s Stockholm

UK TV

Trailer for season 3 of Channel 4’s The Windsors
Trailer for ITV’s Belgravia
Trailer for ITV’s Flesh and Blood
History UK to become Sky History
ITV green lights: bomb thriller Trigger Point, with Vicky McClure

US TV shows

Trailer for season 2 of HBO’s My Brilliant Friend
Trailer for season 3 of HBO’s Westworld
Paramount renews: Yellowstone
NBC renews: The Blacklist

US TV show casting

Someone’s leaving CBS All Access’ The Good Fight [spoilers]
Two people are leaving The CW’s Riverdale [spoilers]
Jeri Ryan joins CBS’s MacGyver

New US TV shows

ABC green lights: pilot of love story with a twist comedy
Universal Content developing: adaptation of Watergate podcast Slow Burn as Gaslit, with Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Armie Hammer et al

New US TV show casting

Ariela Barer to co-star in ABC’s Rebel
Melanie Mayron and Polly Droper to return for ABC’s thirtysomething(else)
Annie Murphy to star in AMC’s Kevin Can F*** Himself
Jack Cutmore-Scott to star in CBS’s Jury Duty
Jon Prasida, Shannon Dang and Eddie Liu join The CW’s Kung Fu
Mitch Pileggi joins The CW’s Walker (previously Walker, Texas Ranger)
Bebe Neuwirth to recur on HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant
Harriet Dyer to star in NBC’s American Auto
Michael Raymond-James to star in NBC’s La Brea

L’Art du crime renewed; Wild Bill cancelled; + more

13 November 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Internet TV

Teaser for Netflix’s Selena: The Series
Auli’i Cravalho to co-star in Amazon’s The Power

Australian TV

Bella Heathcote, Jacqueline McKenzie, Gary Sweet et al join Stan’s Bloom

Canadian TV

Trailer for season 2 of Bravo’s Carter

French TV

Xavier Lacaille, Liz Kingsman, Philippe Duquesne et al to star in France.tv’s Parlement (Parliament)
Bernard Le Coq and Catherine Jacob to guest on France 3’s Cassandre
France 2 renews: L’Art du crime (The Art of Crime)
France 3 green lights: romantic period saga mini-series Black and White, with Mareme Ndiye, Olivier Chantreau, Isabelle Gelinas et al

German TV

Story House/Satel (Austria) green light: period drama Sisi

UK TV

ITV cancels: Wild Bill

US TV

Trailer for season eight of Fox’s Last Man Standing

US TV show casting

Christina Wolfe to guest on The CW’s Batwoman
John Michael Higgins to guest on ABC’s Single Parents

New US TV shows

Trailer for Spectrum’s Mad About You
CBS developing: conspiracy thriller The Eshmun Protocol
HBO Max developing: anthology adaptation of RL Stine’s Point Horror books

New US TV show casting

TR Knight joins HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant

The Fix acquired; Fresh off the Boat cancelled; The Mallorca Files renewed; + more

11 November 2019 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Internet TV

Apple TV+ green lights: series of workplace thriller Severance, with Adam Scott

Australian TV

Screen Australia green lights: 1970s faux monster-hunting Leyland Brothers comedy documentary, Chinese mystery comedy Lucky Lee, UN white saviour hero complex comedy drama Tales From The United Nonsense, girls fleeing ‘local hero’ drama Blood Sisters, idealistic youth worker drama Dog Box, sci-fi-esque consumer goods demo comedy Science+ and fake terminal illness comedy drama Unwell
Galactic Baby developing: Muslim one-upmanship comedy Bogan Muslim and self-explanatory comedy Teen Ward

UK TV

Fox UK acquires: ABC (US)’s The Fix
BBC One renews: The Mallorca Files…
…Tanya Moodie promoted to regular, Phil Daniels and Josette Simon to guest

US TV

Trailer for season 5 of Syfy’s The Magicians
ABC cancels: Fresh Off The Boat

US TV show casting

Chris Lee promoted to regular, Olivia Liang to recur on The CW’s Legacies
Henri Esteve, Raigan Harris and Andrew Liner to recur on Freeform’s Grown-ish
Dean Norris to guest on NBC’s Superstore
Rachel Keller joins, Emily Bergl, Lena Georgas, Tiera Skovbye et al to recur on USA’s Dirty John

New US TV shows

NBC renames Lincoln: Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For the Bone Collector
ABC developing: helpful ‘dead’ CIA officer drama Ghost
CBS developing: Hollywood comeback actress with grandkids comedy Call Me Florence
Fox developing: soapy multi-ethnic clan dramedy Familyship
NBC developing: San Francisco twentysomething friends comedy Friends and Family

New US TV show casting

Griffin Matthews joins HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant
Kaitlyn Dever and Jonathan Tucker to star in Hulu’s Monsterland
Rafael Casal to recur on Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird
Danny Sapani, Olive Gray and Charlie Murphy join Showtime’s Halo
Tom Lipinski to recur on TNT’s Snowpiercer

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