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Post by nick on Feb 26, 2023 7:18:12 GMT
A lot of the big name series of recent years are coming to an end this year and next. Is there anything coming up that you're looking forward to that looks like filling that gap? These are what I've got down of interest for the next couple of months. They could all be terrible though. I'm not sure any jump out as stellar but Daisy Jone and Big Door Prize intrigue me the most. (I have a very long list of interesting things for 2023 if you're interested) Daisy Jones and the Six - Amazon - 12 eps - March 3rd Ted Lasso - March 13th Bali 2002 - - IITV - 16th march Extrapolations - Apple TV - March 17th Lucky Hank - AMC - March 19 Rabbit Hole - CBS - March 23rd The Power - Prime - March 31st Big Door Prize - Apple TV+ - March 29th - Chris O’Dowd, machine changes small town lives Schmigadoon - Apple TV+ - April 7th Tiny Beautiful Things - Disney+ - April 7th Dead Ringers - April 21st Mrs Davis - Peacock - April 20th A Small Light - 8 eps - Disney+ - may 2nd - Ann Frank’s helpers Queen Charlotte - 4th May - Netflix City on Fire - Apple TV+ - May 12th - student shooting The Last Thing He Told Me - Apple + - May 19th |
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Post by justfran on Feb 26, 2023 8:50:37 GMT
I thought the Daisy Jones book was brilliant so I’m really looking forward to the TV series. They’ve been doing a good build up campaign on their socials in the run up to it starting so I hope it’s just as good.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 26, 2023 9:31:45 GMT
There's a 'limited series' adaptation of The Gallows Pole coming up on BBC, and I've seen casting calls for Shardlake, the medieval detective series, which is promising. I haven't watched Slow Horses yet as I don't have that streamer but heard good things. These are what I've got down of interest for the next couple of months. They could all be terrible though. I'm not sure any jump out as stellar but Daisy Jone and Big Door Prize intrigue me the most. Thanks! I will have to dip into Apple TV at some point. |
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Post by nick on Feb 26, 2023 11:20:00 GMT
Here's my list. Spoilered for size. Usually dramas - usually has something that makes it stand out from the usual suspects. {Spoiler - click to view}
The 39 Steps - Netflix - 6 eps - Cumberbatch
The Abandons - Netflix - 10 eps - 1850s wild west
Am I being unreasonable series 2
Archie - ITV - 4 eps
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Artful Dodger - Disney - 8 eps - Tim Minchin, 1850s Australia Dodger grown up
Ballad of Renegade Nell - Disney+ - 8 parts - Highwaywoman
Best Interests - BBC - 4 eps - Sharon Horgan, Michael Sheen, disabled daughter
Boiling point - BBC - 5 eps
But When We Dance - BBC - 1 ep - Parkinson’s
The Change - c4 - 6 eps - comedy woman going through life change
The Cleaner s2 - BBC - 6 eps
Constellation - Apple TV+ - Woman returns from space, parts of her life are missing
Dark Matter - Apple TV+ - 9eps - man kidnapped returns to changed life - sci-fi
The Devil In The White City - Hulu - 8 eps - 1883 first serial killer
The Doll Factory - Paramount Plus - 6 eps - 1850
Death Comes As The End - BBC – 3 eps (probably been cancelled)
Dick Turpin - Apple TV+ - Noel Fielding
East of Eden - Netflix - based on book (film version 1954)
Fellow Travellers - Showtime - 8 eps - 1950s, 2 men romance over decades
Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies - BBC - 5 eps - 2 women and a con artist
Franklin - Apple TV+ - Benjamin Franklin
Gaynor and Ray - BBC - Pilot - Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon
The Gallows Pole BBC - 6 eps - 18th century
Generation Z - CH4 - 6 eps - young fighting boomer zombies
Great Expectations - BBC - 6 eps
Human Error - Australia
Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - Amazon - 7 eps - handling violent childhood
Love and Death - HBO - 6 eps - church goers and axe murder
Manhunt - Apple TV+ Lincoln Assassination attempt
Miss Austen - PBS - 4 eps
Malpractice - ITV - 5 eps
Mary and George - Sky - 8 eps
Masters of the Air - Apple TV+ - 9 eps
Maryland - ITVX - Suranne Jones
My Lady Jane - 8 eps - Amazon
Metropolis - Apple TV+
Minx - series 2 - Starz
Netherfield Girls - Netflix - Movie
One Day - Netflix
One Night - Paramount - 6 eps - Australia Jodie Whittaker - 2024?
Outlander - Summer
The Power - Amazon
Paper Dolls - Channel 10 - australia
Rain Dogs - BBC - 8 eps
Ripley - Sky - 10 eps
The Reckoning - BBC - 4 eps
Sympathiser - HBO
Saint X - Hulu
Safe Space - Sky - 8 eps
School for Good Mothers
Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Netflix - 7 eps
Surviving Summer season 2 - Australia
Swift Street - SBS australia - 2024?
Tattooist of Auschvitz - Sky
Then You Run - Sky - 8 eps
Ten Pound Poms - BBC - 6 eps
Trust - HBO
Tom Jones - ITV - 4 eps
This Town (Stephen knight)
Three Little Birds - ITVX - 6 eps
Three women - Starz
Truelove - c4 - 6 eps - Julie Walter
The War Rooms –
While the Men Are Away - SBS Australia - WWII
The Winter King - ITVX
Wool - Apple TV+ - 10 eps
World on Fire series 2 - BBC - 6 eps
The Woman in the Wall - BBC - 6 eps
2024
The Perfect Nanny - HBO - Nicole Kidman
Shardlake - Tudor detective - Disney+
Sign Here - Amazon - Phoebe Waller-Bridges produces
The Venary of Samatha Bird - Stars - 8 eps |
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Post by crowblack on Feb 26, 2023 23:51:03 GMT
Thanks - looks like a lot of promising shows there, which has cheered me up! |
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Post by nick on Feb 27, 2023 17:45:32 GMT
Thanks - looks like a lot of promising shows there, which has cheered me up! Yeh I put it together to cheer me up as well. But I'm often surprised which shows makes the biggest impact. I've just ploughed though Poker Face which is fun especially if you are a Columbo fan. |
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Post by crowblack on Feb 27, 2023 19:32:13 GMT
I've just ploughed though Poker Face which is fun especially if you are a Columbo fan. I love Columbo, so I'll keep an eye out if it comes to another streamer but I don't have Peacock (I have Now TV and it doesn't include it). |
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Post by crowblack on May 12, 2023 19:50:37 GMT
Sad to say Netflix have just announced they're cancelling Lockwood and Co, the idiots. I've just ploughed though Poker Face which is fun especially if you are a Columbo fan. Poker Face is coming to Now TV at the end of the month. Looking forward to seeing it! |
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Post by justfran on Jul 21, 2023 18:48:48 GMT
Fifteen-Love is now streaming on Amazon Prime. I’ve seen the first episode and impressed so far, they’ve released it at a good time- coming just after Wimbledon so there should be some interest in this.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 29, 2023 1:06:43 GMT
Good Omens 2 seems to be shaping up well
It is the only thing in which I can cope with Mr Sheen.
Mr Tennant is having a ball!
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Post by alece10 on Aug 3, 2023 15:48:58 GMT
Heartstopper Series 2 - that's tonight sorted for me.
And I refuse to write "season".
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Post by londonpostie on Aug 5, 2023 16:33:08 GMT
S1 of The Bear (on Disney+) was fast and furious and delicious (8 x 30-ish minutes), even if the arcs were a little predictable.
It was certainly enough to look forward to S2, which is now available and what a treat this is. Very smart stuff. No wonder folks like Olivia Coleman, Bob Odenkirk, Molly Gordon, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more - several more - were happy to put in turns, some for most of the run.
The depiction of family in the extended E6 "Fishes" will be up for awards.
S1 is a series of jabs, with S2 delivering haymakers and uppercuts. This is layered and clever, often intense, unpredictable, and worth a month's free trial.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 31, 2023 18:52:01 GMT
Am I the only person who has started watching Heartstopper on Netflix about 3 times and abandoned it before the end of E01 because it’s so totally dreadful and absolutely cringe?
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Post by justfran on Aug 31, 2023 20:01:02 GMT
S1 of The Bear (on Disney+) was fast and furious and delicious (8 x 30-ish minutes), even if the arcs were a little predictable. It was certainly enough to look forward to S2, which is now available and what a treat this is. Very smart stuff. No wonder folks like Olivia Coleman, Bob Odenkirk, Molly Gordon, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more - several more - were happy to put in turns, some for most of the run. The depiction of family in the extended E6 "Fishes" will be up for awards. S1 is a series of jabs, with S2 delivering haymakers and uppercuts. This is layered and clever, often intense, unpredictable, and worth a month's free trial. I’ve recently finished series 2 of The Bear and very much enjoyed it. A change of pace to the first series but still kept all that was good and the acting all round is great. Episode 6 “Fishes” I personally found to be a bit OTT and think episode 7 “Forks” was actually the highlight of the series. Much quieter and the development of Richie’s character was just perfect. Looking forward to series 3 already 😊 |
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Post by intoanewlife on Aug 31, 2023 21:51:20 GMT
Am I the only person who has started watching Heartstopper on Netflix about 3 times and abandoned it before the end of E01 because it’s so totally dreadful and absolutely cringe? Yup...we're doing it again... |
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Post by jek on Sept 1, 2023 10:57:30 GMT
We're late to this but loving Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories and its predecessor Midnight Diner on Netflix. 5 series in total of 10 episodes, each 25 minutes long. We watched the more recent two series first - I don't think the order really matters. It's a gentle drama set in a diner in Tokyo which is open during the night, run by a benevolent character called the master. His clientele are the sorts of people who are up in those hours - nightclub workers, strippers, gangsters, insomniacs. It's just lovely. I was alerted to its existence by a restaurant review in the Financial Times where the reviewer wished for a properly egalitarian place to eat good food like the Tokyo Diner. It's in Japanese with English subtitles.
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Post by sukhavati on Sept 12, 2023 9:41:37 GMT
I don't know if anyone else is a fan, but I am loving the current series of Only Murders in the Building. The setting has partially moved outside of the apartment block and the plot has to do with an opening on Broadway with guest stars from the film and stage world. Most of the regular supporting cast are stage veterans as well, so it's been a lot of fun, especially when dealing with stagey cliches and superhero or cop show cliches.
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Post by Deal J on Sept 12, 2023 13:17:12 GMT
I don't know if anyone else is a fan, but I am loving the current series of Only Murders in the Building. The setting has partially moved outside of the apartment block and the plot has to do with an opening on Broadway with guest stars from the film and stage world. Most of the regular supporting cast are stage veterans as well, so it's been a lot of fun, especially when dealing with stagey cliches and superhero or cop show cliches. Yes, I'm enjoying this too! I love Martin Short, he's so good at reaction noises and has seriously funny bones. He reminds me of Liza Minnelli, of all people! |
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Post by sukhavati on Sept 13, 2023 4:40:07 GMT
I don't know if anyone else is a fan, but I am loving the current series of Only Murders in the Building. The setting has partially moved outside of the apartment block and the plot has to do with an opening on Broadway with guest stars from the film and stage world. Most of the regular supporting cast are stage veterans as well, so it's been a lot of fun, especially when dealing with stagey cliches and superhero or cop show cliches. Yes, I'm enjoying this too! I love Martin Short, he's so good at reaction noises and has seriously funny bones. He reminds me of Liza Minnelli, of all people! Those old man grunts! I had been watching "Mr Turner" with Timothy Spall earlier yesterday, and he was making a lot of those same grunts...lol... Yes, I can see Martin and Liza being the OTT gesticulating types!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 26, 2023 16:38:35 GMT
Sex Education S4.
I finished it last night having enjoyed the first three outings.
But this was the weakest season. It was trying too hard in so many areas. Probably due to the influence of Heartstopper.
Gillian Anderson was great but that is a given.
But the new school set up was just not credible on any level.
A shame they couldn't have wrapped it up with a bit more integrity.
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Post by alece10 on Sept 26, 2023 16:47:48 GMT
Sex Education S4. I finished it last night having enjoyed the first three outings. But this was the weakest season. It was trying too hard in so many areas. Probably due to the influence of Heartstopper. Gillian Anderson was great but that is a given. But the new school set up was just not credible on any level. A shame they couldn't have wrapped it up with a bit more integrity. Ove only watched the first episode of the new series so far and mistaken say it felt as if it had run its course or that I'm too old to be watching teen TV. |
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Post by justfran on Sept 27, 2023 11:55:46 GMT
I’ve just finished series 2 of Heartstopper - just as lovely as series 1. It’s like a hug of a tv show 🥰
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Post by kathryn on Oct 8, 2023 15:34:49 GMT
Anyone else watched the Beckham doc?
As interesting for what it left out as what it put in, I thought.
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Post by alece10 on Oct 8, 2023 18:06:37 GMT
Anyone else watched the Beckham doc? As interesting for what it left out as what it put in, I thought. One episode in. Finding it quite interesting. He was very badly treated after the Argentina game. |
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Post by kathryn on Oct 8, 2023 19:15:08 GMT
Yes. As a non-football fan how bad it got passed me by at the time. I was impressed at how well he held it together under that much pressure. It clearly gave him serious problems with anxiety - one of the things the doc sort of shows but never quite talks about is his OCD tendencies.
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