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The Magicians cancelled; Sky/Now TV adds Disney+; + more

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The Daily News will hopefully be back tomorrow, although it depends on what time TMINE gets home tonight…

Internet TV

Brett Gelman promoted to regular on Netflix’s Stranger Things
Maxim Baldry to star in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings

UK TV

Trailer for BBC One’s The Nest
Sky/Now TV to carry Disney+

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of BET’s Boomerang
Syfy cancels: The Magicians

US TV show casting

Brandon McKnight promoted to regular on The CW’s The Flash
Daniel Dae Kim to recur on NBC’s New Amsterdam

New US TV shows

CBS yellow lights: Out the Door
Freeform developing: dark aspiring musician comedy Asian Descent

New US TV show casting

Kylie Bunbury to star in ABC’s The Big Sky
Katherine Reis, Chris Mason and Sophie Tatum to star in ABC’s The Brides
Eric Petersen to star in AMC’s Kevin Can F*** Himself
Thomas Middleditch to star in CBS’s B Positive
Tory Kittles joins CBS’s The Equalizer
Izabella Alvarez, Nia Holloway and Hope Lauren join The CW’s The Republic of Sarah
Emily Hampshire to star in Epix’s Chapelwaite
Charlie Barnett and Natalie Martinez join NBC’s Ordinary Joe
Ryan Hansen and Aimee Carrero to star, Neil Casey to co-star in NBC’s Someone Out There
Tami Sagher joins Showtime’s Big Deal
Ann Dowd joins Showtime’s The President is Missing

Shetland, Förhöret renewed; new Doctor Who trailer; + more

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Internet TV

Brooke Smith, Anika Noni Rose, PJ Byrne et al to recur on Amazon’s Them
Zoe Kazan, Adrian Grenier, Betty Gabriel et al to star in Netflix’s Clickbait

French TV

France Télévisions developing: adaptation of Ghyslain Wattrelos’ Une Vie Détournée (A Life Deverted) as Flight MH370

International TV

Telekom Serbia green lights: adaptation of Quebecor Content (Canada)’s Les Beaux Malaises as Slatke Muke

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay renews: Förhöret (Face to Face)
…developing: adaptation of Peter James’ Perfect People

UK TV

New trailer for BBC One’s Doctor Who
BBC One renews: Shetland
108 Media developing: adaptation of Rosie Milne’s Olivia & Sophia
Adam Tandy developing: adaptation of Radio 4’s The Cold Swedish Winter (subscription required)

US TV show casting

Trailer for season 5 of Syfy’s The Magicians
Damaris Lewis promoted to regular on DCU’s Titans

New US TV shows

HBO green lights: pilot of ambitious millennial PR comedy, with Quinta Brunson
CBS developing: PI and journalist crime drama Truth & Justice
NBC developing: gospel music industry drama Kingdom Business

New US TV show casting

Sonya Cassidy and Miles J Harvey to star, Carla Jimenez, Max Casella and Phillipa Soo join HBO Max’s Gumshoe
Jillian Mercado to recur on Showtime’s The L Word: Generation Q

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

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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

What have you been watching? Including Star Trek: Discovery and The Twilight Zone

23 April 2019 Rob Buckley 15 Comments

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

Dax Shepard and Lake Bell in ABC (US)'s Bless This Mess — Dax Shepard and Lake Bell in ABC (US)’s Bless This Mess

This week’s reviews

With everyone celebrating that Jesus dying (and coming back again) for the past few days, it’s been another quiet one for TMINE. But elsewhere, I did review ABC (US)’s Bless This Mess and Orange Wednesday took in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, so I’ve not been totally slacking.

What’s coming this week

A few new shows are coming up, and fingers crossed, I should finally be able to watch all of TVNZ 1’s The Bad Seed. Plus Orange Wednesday tomorrow will be taking in an Australian double-bill, Mystery Road and Goldstone, as well as a classic from the 80s, The Name of the Rose.

There’ll be other stuff, too.

Freeform's Marvel's Cloak and Dagger — Freeform (US)’s Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger

The regulars

While there may not have been a huge number of new shows, I’ve not been slacking when it comes to the regulars. I’ve now caught up with episodes 2-4 of The Twilight Zone, so I’ll be looking at that, as well as all the other regulars: Au Service De La France, Doom Patrol, Game of Thrones, The Good Fight, Happy!, Il Miracolo (The Miracle), Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose), The Magicians, Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger, The Orville, Star Trek: Discovery, Warrior, What We Do In the Shadows and Whiskey Cavalier.

Brace yourselves, though, because not only are The Magicians, Il Miracolo and Star Trek: Discovery leaving that list because they’ve just had their season finales, I’m also purging no fewer than five of the others, on the general grounds they’re not much cop any more.

See you in a mo for a veritable TMINE Night of the Long Knives!

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What have you been watching? Including Game of Thrones

16 April 2019 Rob Buckley 15 Comments

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

CBS (US)'s The Code — CBS (US)’s The Code

This week’s reviews

TMINE took a few well-deserved days off at the end of last week, which means its usual prodigious output was a little more subdued than usual. But elsewhere, you can find a review of CBS (US)’s The Code, while last week’s Orange Wednesday took in Shazam! and Aquaman.

New shows

TVNZ premiered The Bad Seed at the weekend, so I’ll be trying to review that this week, as well as ABC’s Bless This Mess. Otherwise, with Easter holidays coming up, it’s liable to be another quiet one. Sorry!

Fox (US)'s The Orville — Fox (US)’s The Orville

The regulars

I’ll be trying to do a third-episode verdict on The Twilight Zone this week, so I’ll hold off on reviewing that for now. Meanwhile, The Orville‘s back off its holidays, so after the jump, I’ll be looking at that, as well as all the other regulars: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Doom Patrol, The Good Fight, Happy!, Il Miracolo (The Miracle), Il Nome della Rosa (The Name of the Rose), The Magicians, Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger, Star Trek: Discovery, Warrior, What We Do In the Shadows and Whiskey Cavalier.

Shockingly, one of those is for the chop. But which?

And oh yes, another show made its return this week. You might not have noticed. I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it. What was it?

Oh yes. That was it. Game of Thrones.

See you in a mo!

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