Upcoming TV Shows

[Numero Veinticinco]

Talking of upcoming stuff, has anybody heard about this upcoming service from Disney for streaming content? Disney Streaming Service. It’s going to have lots of new content, films and TV, that they seem to be throwing billions at. Bet it’ll be a beast. 

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3 hours ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Talking of upcoming stuff, has anybody heard about this upcoming service from Disney for streaming content? Disney Streaming Service. It’s going to have lots of new content, films and TV, that they seem to be throwing billions at. Bet it’ll be a beast. 

I heard a lot of talk about this around a year ago and it apparently has left services like Netflix and Hulu concerned. Not only is there a huge competitor with an established name but as Disney have so many popular movies and TV shows that they could make exclusive to their platform, the others may end up struggling to compete. Just imagine if they started paying huge fees for other companies content to be exclusive, it could end all the other content providers.

 

It all went quite for a fair while but presumably Disney's service is closer to becoming available?

[Numero Veinticinco]

1 hour ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

I heard a lot of talk about this around a year ago and it apparently has left services like Netflix and Hulu concerned. Not only is there a huge competitor with an established name but as Disney have so many popular movies and TV shows that they could make exclusive to their platform, the others may end up struggling to compete. Just imagine if they started paying huge fees for other companies content to be exclusive, it could end all the other content providers.

 

It all went quite for a fair while but presumably Disney's service is closer to becoming available?

Yeah, so they acquired a $1bn stake in a streaming tech company (primarily providing MLB, etc), then put in another $1.5bn for a controlling stake. Then came up with a list of new films, tv and remakes to go on the platform at launch. Then there’s all their other content they own. No R rated content though, which will go to Hulu (which Disney own 25% of). I think their Marvel licensing to Netflix ends in 2019. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. 

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Informer (BBC)

 

Informer is a sophisticated, character-driven thriller about Raza, a young, second generation Pakistani man from East London (Nabhaan Rizwan) who is coerced by Gabe, a Counter-Terrorism officer (Paddy Considine) to go undercover and inform for him. Gabe, who has a past he is unwilling to expose, is joined by Holly, his new and ambitious partner (Bel Powley) whose endless curiosity becomes threatening to him. As the central counter-terrorism investigation heats up, the stakes for all three get higher and higher. Informer tells a story about identity in a world where lines are increasingly being drawn and sides are being taken. What happens when you, or your friends, family or neighbours fall on the wrong side of that line and the personal becomes political?

 

 

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Tell me a story

 

Tell Me a Story takes "the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Set in modern day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and Hansel and Gretel into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder." Tell Me A Story premieres on Halloween.

 

 

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Nightflyers

 

Release date for this now confirmed for 2nd December and a new trailer.

 

Nightflyers follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard The Nightflyer—a ship with a smalltightknit crew and a reclusive captain—in the hope of making contact with alien life.

 

 

 

 

 

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Good Omens

 

Got to admit I've been looking forward to this. Loved the book for years, and love Neil Gaiman. Just a pity Terry Pratchett isn't here to see it.

 

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The story begins in pre-apocalyptic 2018. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch, the world is due to end in a week, and Judgement Day is almost upon us. As the official synopsis explains, this is where Tennant and Sheen’s characters come in:

 

“Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth’s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming war. And… someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist.”

 

Good Omens, published by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in 1990, is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan – but thanks to a terrible mix-up, the Antichrist (Adam) grows up in a nice English village with a nice family. As the End Times approach and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are summoned to Earth, what will happen to young Adam and his friends?

 

 

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Deadly Class

 

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Deadly Class follows a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while navigating a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal. Set against the backdrop of late 80s counter culture, Deadly Class is a coming of age story unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Based on the smash hit comic series of the same name by Rick Remender.

 

 

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The Boys

 

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This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone’s got to make sure the “supes” don’t get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother’s Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth – superpower! Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled. And some of them, sometimes, need to be taken out of the picture. That’s when you call in The Boys!

 

 

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Origin

 

Sounds like the exact same plot as Nightflyers.

 

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Origin finds a group of strangers stranded on a spacecraft bound for a distant planet. The abandoned passengers must work together for survival, but quickly realize that one of them is far from who they claim to be.

 

 

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5 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

Origin

 

Sounds like the exact same plot as Nightflyers.

 

 

 

Maybe the Nightflyer's quest to make contact with life on a distant planet will be thwarted by discovering the lives of another bunch of Earthlings on the same quest?

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Mr Inbetween

 

Might give this a watch this week.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/mr-inbetween-review-727517/

 

Ray, the main character of the Australian drama Mr Inbetween, which debuts Tuesday on FX (I’ve seen all six episodes) is many things: divorced father to elementary schooler Brit (Chika Yasumura), new boyfriend to Ally (Brooke Satchwell), friend to Gary (Justin Rosniak) and caretaker to his ill brother Bruce (Nicholas Cassim). Ray is also a killer for hire, continuing 2018 TV’s fascination with oddball assassins (see: HBO’s Barry, BBC America’s Killing Eve). Often, when he hits someone, his “pretty good reason” is that he’s being paid to do it by his boss Freddy (Justified‘s Damon Herriman, finally appearing on FX with his native accent). But Ray also fancies himself the guardian angel for his loved ones, and at times for society at large.

 

 

 

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Dirty John

 

Dirty John is based on the articles and breakout true-crime podcast from Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard. It centers on John Meehan (Bana), a handsome and romantic charmer who sweeps Debra Newell, played by Connie Britton, off her feet and pulls her into his web of lies. The series chronicles the true story of how a romance with Meehan spiraled into secrets, denial and manipulation.

 

 

 

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The little drummer girl

 

“The Little Drummer Girl,” filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s first thing for television, certainly looks great. A pop of color and some shadows on Greek architecture certainly seems like a fresh spin on John le Carré.

Add in Florence Pugh, star of “Lady Macbeth,” Michael Shannon trying on a new accent, and Alexander Skarsgård in his biggest post-“Big Little Lies” role, and AMC has the makings of another fascinating limited series spy story.

 

“The Little Drummer Girl” follows Charlie (Pugh), an actress whose vacation misadventures walk her right into a global intelligence role that forces her to take on a literal deadly role. Skarsgård co-stars as Becker, an Israeli agent tasked with bringing her into the international plot, and Shannon as Becker’s dangerous boss Kurtz.

 

It’s the second le Carré adaptation in three years for AMC, which also co-produced “The Night Manager” back in 2016. Susanne Bier won an Emmy for her work directing the series, which starred Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston. “The Little Drummer Girl” is Park’s first film since “The Handmaiden,” one of the best-reviewed films of 2016.

 

AMC is following a new limited series release schedule with this six-hour series, airing episodes in two-hour blocks on three consecutive nights beginning on November 19.

 

 

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Decent looking multi-part documentary on the Assad family starts on BBC 2, tonight, at 9. 

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Light as a feather

 

The series adapts Aarsen’s Wattpad original self-published story, Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, which follows high school junior McKenna Brady (Liana Liberato), who’s associated with tragedy, locally known as the girl whose twin sister died in a house fire. However, McKenna is suddenly embraced by the popular girls of Weeping Willow High, she attends their slumber party. Yet, also in attendance is a mysterious new girl, named Violet (Haley Ramm), who incites the group to participate in a game of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board,” in which she conjures up elaborate tales about the popular girls’ deaths; gruesome fates that later come true. Thus, it’s up to McKenna, and her next-door neighbor (and prospective love interest), Trey (Jordan Rodrigues), to stop Violet’s malevolent agenda.

 

 

 

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Season 2 of the best new show of the year so far starts back on December 9th.

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This looks decent if you like your foreign language stuff. Think it's Polish.

 

 

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Yep. I'm having this.

 

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

Yeah, I’ll be on that. 

[VladimirIlyich]

On 10/9/2018 at 3:00 AM, Sugar Ape said:

Mr Inbetween

 

Might give this a watch this week.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/mr-inbetween-review-727517/

 

Ray, the main character of the Australian drama Mr Inbetween, which debuts Tuesday on FX (I’ve seen all six episodes) is many things: divorced father to elementary schooler Brit (Chika Yasumura), new boyfriend to Ally (Brooke Satchwell), friend to Gary (Justin Rosniak) and caretaker to his ill brother Bruce (Nicholas Cassim). Ray is also a killer for hire, continuing 2018 TV’s fascination with oddball assassins (see: HBO’s Barry, BBC America’s Killing Eve). Often, when he hits someone, his “pretty good reason” is that he’s being paid to do it by his boss Freddy (Justified‘s Damon Herriman, finally appearing on FX with his native accent). But Ray also fancies himself the guardian angel for his loved ones, and at times for society at large.

 

 

 

This was excellent.