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shadowkat[As an aside, most of these are on Cable networks, Hulu, Amazon and Netflix..mainly because the broadcast channels wouldn't know a good and innovative television show if it hit them in the nose, with few exceptions.]
10 Intriguing NEW TV Shows to look out for in 2019:
Links:
* US - 40 Most Anticipated TV Shows in 2019 by Rolling Stone
* Great Britain/UK - Best TV Shows 2019 - Radio Times.
1. *Good Omens
Premiers on Amazon and the BBC, and is set in 2018. Also, get this...
The show, which is based upon a fantasy novel of the same name written by the two authors, is set to debut on Amazon Prime Video next year with David Tennant and Michael Sheen in the lead roles, alongside a host of other big names.
Neil Gaiman will serve as show-runner, and will write all six episodes. The series is being co-produced with the BBC, who will show the drama after its release on Amazon.
It is set in 2018 as humanity prepares for an imminent apocalypse – but an angel (Sheen) and a demon (Tennant) team up in order to try and sabotage the end of the world…
It's supposed to air on Amazon Prime worldwide in early 2019 -- and all episodes for binging, then six months later on BBC2 individual episodes, since it's a co-production.
2. Umbrella Academy - February 15 - Netflix
Netflix’s history with comic-book properties is shaky (sorry, Daredevil, Iron Fist and Luke Cage), but we’re cautiously (very) optimistic for this new series about a family of misfit superheroes — all orphans born by different mothers and then adopted by a billionaire — who have to get their shit together in time to stop the end of the world. The cast includes Ellen Page, Mary J. Blige, Black Sails‘ Tom Hopper and Mindhunter standout Cameron Britton, among others. If that’s still not enough to whet your appetite, consider that the show is based on the comic book by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, who serves as a producer and had a strong hand in putting together the soundtrack - From Rolling Stone.
3. I Am the Night - January 28th - TNT
Wonder Woman star Chris Pine and director Patty Jenkins re-team for this six-part miniseries that evokes the stylized noir of L.A. Confidential. Based on a memoir (whose co-author, Fauna Hodel, also contributed to the script), it boasts true-crime bona fides that tie a young woman’s search for her birth family to a notorious Hollywood gynecologist who may or may not have been the Black Dahlia killer. Jenkins knows how to bring out the best in Pine, tapping into the squirrelly energy that lurks beneath his ordinary leading-man looks. Whatever road she wants to lead him down, we’ll follow. Basically what Patti Jenkens has been doing in between Wonder Woman gigs.
3. Russian Doll (l-r) Elizabeth Ashley, Natasha Lyonne - Feb 1, Netflix
Orange Is the New Black‘s Natasha Lyonne co-created (with Amy Poehler and director Leslye Headland) this Groundhog Day-meets-quirky-indie set in New York. She plays a video game designer who keeps dying after her 36th birthday party, then resurrecting in the same spot earlier in the same evening. It’s been a while since Lyonne had a great showcase of her own; looks like she just went out and wrote herself one
4. Tune Up, Charlie - Idris Alba, Piper Perbo...Netflix - March 15
Idris Elba is serious about his side gig as a DJ — he was just announced as part of this year’s Coachella lineup. In Turn Up Charlie, Stringer Bell takes to the wheels of steel as a London DJ who gets a new job as a manny helping to raise his best friend’s daughter. Elba himself created (with Gary Reich) and executive-produced the eight-episode Netflix comedy, also starring Piper Perabo. It shines a light on his music vocation (he just DJed a royal wedding and spoke out about his craving to do a collabo with his Cats co-star, Taylor Swift), but it’s yet another chapter in Elba’s quest to prove himself the coolest man alive.
5. Fosse/Vernon - F/X - April 2019 (we have the creative teams behind Hamilton and The Americans, starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams and about the most controversial and groundbreaking broadway choreographic team in history...alrighty then!)
What do you get when the creative teams of Hamilton and The Americans join forces? Not a hip-hop Cold War spy thriller, but a star-studded miniseries about the decades-spanning collaboration (professional and romantic) between director and choreographer Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) and Broadway dance legend Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams). As if that description didn’t offer enough excitement, the teaser that aired during the Golden Globes was pretty thrilling, too.
6. What We Do in the Shadows - F/X (for vampire fans everywhere) - Spring
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s mockumentary about inept vampire roommates was one of 2014’s funniest and most surprising films. Now they’ve reunited for this spinoff about another trio of bumbling members of the undead, this time living in Staten Island and struggling to get along with each other or fit into the modern world. We’re placing our bets now: The “energy vampire” played by Mark Proksch will be everyone’s favorite ridiculous character of 2019.
7. Catch-22 - Hulu - 2019
[If you were like me and sludged through this in the space of a weekend in undergrad and have no real memory of it, and think maybe MASH was better...here's your chance to see it adapted to screen and if it actually was worth the sludge. (On a strictly Personal Note -- I was in a school in which each class lasted a month, you basically took one "intensive" class per month or for two months, with about a two week break in between. It taught me how to speed-read, also how to speed-write. Mainly because we'd read the equivalent of a semester's worth of books and write the equivalent of a semester's worth of papers all in one month. On the other hand -- really great for folks who get overwhelmed or distracted easily and need to focus on one thing at a time -- like myself. But as a result of this format, I read Catch-22 in two days, then wrote a paper and discussed it. I was taking a contemporary English Lit course -- that focused on funky writers like Kurt Vonnegurt, Heller, Gibson, etc.]
Though he hasn’t acted on TV in the decade since he returned briefly to ER in the final season, George Clooney’s always remained warm toward the medium that made him a star. And the miniseries format seems a good one for the latest attempt to adapt Joseph Heller’s seminal antiwar satire novel. Clooney directs and has a small role as the oft-promoted Scheiesskopf, with a cast that also includes Hugh Laurie, Kyle Chandler and Christopher Abbott from Girls in the lead role as the bewildered Yossarian
8. Four Weddings and a Funeral as Reinvision by Mindy Kalling with a Feminist Perspective - Hulu 2019
Mindy Kaling made her romantic comedy obsession a core part of the character she played on The Mindy Project. Now she gets to put her own spin on one of the movies that so transfixed Mindy Lahiri, with this miniseries about four American friends who reunite in London for a wedding, then undergo tremendous personal tumult across the following year. The Mindy Project was always half-having fun at the expense of classic rom-com conventions. Will she and partner Matt Warburton play things straighter here? We can’t wait to find out.
9. Watchman - HBO
[In case you thought the movie was lame -- here's your chance to see it done again...this round for television...]
For years, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel was considered unfilmable. Zack Snyder’s 2009 film proved you really could adapt the plot of Watchmen, but that merely doing so missed the entire point of Watchmen. A decade later, Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof is taking a very big swing at the material. We know little about his approach, save that it’s set in the Watchmen universe and has a cast including Regina King, Jeremy Irons and Don Johnson. This could be another adaptation miracle like Lindelof’s The Leftovers, or another mess, but there’s no way it will be boring.
It does have an insanely good cast.
10. His Dark Material - TBD - 2019 - HBO and BBC1
The first series will cover the first novel in the trilogy, Northern Lights, and it looks like it will be faithful to the storyline and atmosphere created by Pullman.
As filming began, screenwriter Thorne said: “His Dark Materials are the most beautiful set of books, taking us into a world of constant imagination. Reading them I was a massive fan, in adapting them I’ve increasingly felt in awe of them. It’s the constant invention, the way the story never sits still, and that the characters constantly surprise you.
“It’s been a joy being part of a creative team for this; from Tom’s incredible analytic mind and amazing eye, to Joel’s beautiful world building, to everyone else involved. And then there’s the cast, which has proved to be the cast of dreams, we are so lucky to have been able to entice them in.”
It finished filming in 2018 and it stars: James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson (the Affair), Dafne Keene (Logan), Clark Peters (the Wire), Lin Manuel-Miranda, Georgina Campbell, Anne-Marie Duff, James Cosmo, Will Keene, Ayirian Bakar,
Go HERE for more info.
[This is a must for fans of His Dark Materials and who, like me, were disappointed by the film and its reception.]
[I skipped everything that premieres on CBS All Access - since I'm boycotting it, and Disney- All Access, ditto. Although how long that lasts in respect to Disney is up in there air. I'm too much of a Marvel/Star Wars geek for it to last long.]
Now, let's see if I remember to watch any of them -- if it's on HBO or NETFLIX or HULU or AMAZON not a problem...you can pretty much watch whenever you get around to it, but F/X or broadcast cable? Not so much.
10 Intriguing NEW TV Shows to look out for in 2019:
Links:
* US - 40 Most Anticipated TV Shows in 2019 by Rolling Stone
* Great Britain/UK - Best TV Shows 2019 - Radio Times.
1. *Good Omens
Premiers on Amazon and the BBC, and is set in 2018. Also, get this...
The show, which is based upon a fantasy novel of the same name written by the two authors, is set to debut on Amazon Prime Video next year with David Tennant and Michael Sheen in the lead roles, alongside a host of other big names.
Neil Gaiman will serve as show-runner, and will write all six episodes. The series is being co-produced with the BBC, who will show the drama after its release on Amazon.
It is set in 2018 as humanity prepares for an imminent apocalypse – but an angel (Sheen) and a demon (Tennant) team up in order to try and sabotage the end of the world…
It's supposed to air on Amazon Prime worldwide in early 2019 -- and all episodes for binging, then six months later on BBC2 individual episodes, since it's a co-production.
2. Umbrella Academy - February 15 - Netflix
Netflix’s history with comic-book properties is shaky (sorry, Daredevil, Iron Fist and Luke Cage), but we’re cautiously (very) optimistic for this new series about a family of misfit superheroes — all orphans born by different mothers and then adopted by a billionaire — who have to get their shit together in time to stop the end of the world. The cast includes Ellen Page, Mary J. Blige, Black Sails‘ Tom Hopper and Mindhunter standout Cameron Britton, among others. If that’s still not enough to whet your appetite, consider that the show is based on the comic book by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, who serves as a producer and had a strong hand in putting together the soundtrack - From Rolling Stone.
3. I Am the Night - January 28th - TNT
Wonder Woman star Chris Pine and director Patty Jenkins re-team for this six-part miniseries that evokes the stylized noir of L.A. Confidential. Based on a memoir (whose co-author, Fauna Hodel, also contributed to the script), it boasts true-crime bona fides that tie a young woman’s search for her birth family to a notorious Hollywood gynecologist who may or may not have been the Black Dahlia killer. Jenkins knows how to bring out the best in Pine, tapping into the squirrelly energy that lurks beneath his ordinary leading-man looks. Whatever road she wants to lead him down, we’ll follow. Basically what Patti Jenkens has been doing in between Wonder Woman gigs.
3. Russian Doll (l-r) Elizabeth Ashley, Natasha Lyonne - Feb 1, Netflix
Orange Is the New Black‘s Natasha Lyonne co-created (with Amy Poehler and director Leslye Headland) this Groundhog Day-meets-quirky-indie set in New York. She plays a video game designer who keeps dying after her 36th birthday party, then resurrecting in the same spot earlier in the same evening. It’s been a while since Lyonne had a great showcase of her own; looks like she just went out and wrote herself one
4. Tune Up, Charlie - Idris Alba, Piper Perbo...Netflix - March 15
Idris Elba is serious about his side gig as a DJ — he was just announced as part of this year’s Coachella lineup. In Turn Up Charlie, Stringer Bell takes to the wheels of steel as a London DJ who gets a new job as a manny helping to raise his best friend’s daughter. Elba himself created (with Gary Reich) and executive-produced the eight-episode Netflix comedy, also starring Piper Perabo. It shines a light on his music vocation (he just DJed a royal wedding and spoke out about his craving to do a collabo with his Cats co-star, Taylor Swift), but it’s yet another chapter in Elba’s quest to prove himself the coolest man alive.
5. Fosse/Vernon - F/X - April 2019 (we have the creative teams behind Hamilton and The Americans, starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams and about the most controversial and groundbreaking broadway choreographic team in history...alrighty then!)
What do you get when the creative teams of Hamilton and The Americans join forces? Not a hip-hop Cold War spy thriller, but a star-studded miniseries about the decades-spanning collaboration (professional and romantic) between director and choreographer Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) and Broadway dance legend Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams). As if that description didn’t offer enough excitement, the teaser that aired during the Golden Globes was pretty thrilling, too.
6. What We Do in the Shadows - F/X (for vampire fans everywhere) - Spring
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s mockumentary about inept vampire roommates was one of 2014’s funniest and most surprising films. Now they’ve reunited for this spinoff about another trio of bumbling members of the undead, this time living in Staten Island and struggling to get along with each other or fit into the modern world. We’re placing our bets now: The “energy vampire” played by Mark Proksch will be everyone’s favorite ridiculous character of 2019.
7. Catch-22 - Hulu - 2019
[If you were like me and sludged through this in the space of a weekend in undergrad and have no real memory of it, and think maybe MASH was better...here's your chance to see it adapted to screen and if it actually was worth the sludge. (On a strictly Personal Note -- I was in a school in which each class lasted a month, you basically took one "intensive" class per month or for two months, with about a two week break in between. It taught me how to speed-read, also how to speed-write. Mainly because we'd read the equivalent of a semester's worth of books and write the equivalent of a semester's worth of papers all in one month. On the other hand -- really great for folks who get overwhelmed or distracted easily and need to focus on one thing at a time -- like myself. But as a result of this format, I read Catch-22 in two days, then wrote a paper and discussed it. I was taking a contemporary English Lit course -- that focused on funky writers like Kurt Vonnegurt, Heller, Gibson, etc.]
Though he hasn’t acted on TV in the decade since he returned briefly to ER in the final season, George Clooney’s always remained warm toward the medium that made him a star. And the miniseries format seems a good one for the latest attempt to adapt Joseph Heller’s seminal antiwar satire novel. Clooney directs and has a small role as the oft-promoted Scheiesskopf, with a cast that also includes Hugh Laurie, Kyle Chandler and Christopher Abbott from Girls in the lead role as the bewildered Yossarian
8. Four Weddings and a Funeral as Reinvision by Mindy Kalling with a Feminist Perspective - Hulu 2019
Mindy Kaling made her romantic comedy obsession a core part of the character she played on The Mindy Project. Now she gets to put her own spin on one of the movies that so transfixed Mindy Lahiri, with this miniseries about four American friends who reunite in London for a wedding, then undergo tremendous personal tumult across the following year. The Mindy Project was always half-having fun at the expense of classic rom-com conventions. Will she and partner Matt Warburton play things straighter here? We can’t wait to find out.
9. Watchman - HBO
[In case you thought the movie was lame -- here's your chance to see it done again...this round for television...]
For years, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel was considered unfilmable. Zack Snyder’s 2009 film proved you really could adapt the plot of Watchmen, but that merely doing so missed the entire point of Watchmen. A decade later, Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof is taking a very big swing at the material. We know little about his approach, save that it’s set in the Watchmen universe and has a cast including Regina King, Jeremy Irons and Don Johnson. This could be another adaptation miracle like Lindelof’s The Leftovers, or another mess, but there’s no way it will be boring.
It does have an insanely good cast.
10. His Dark Material - TBD - 2019 - HBO and BBC1
The first series will cover the first novel in the trilogy, Northern Lights, and it looks like it will be faithful to the storyline and atmosphere created by Pullman.
As filming began, screenwriter Thorne said: “His Dark Materials are the most beautiful set of books, taking us into a world of constant imagination. Reading them I was a massive fan, in adapting them I’ve increasingly felt in awe of them. It’s the constant invention, the way the story never sits still, and that the characters constantly surprise you.
“It’s been a joy being part of a creative team for this; from Tom’s incredible analytic mind and amazing eye, to Joel’s beautiful world building, to everyone else involved. And then there’s the cast, which has proved to be the cast of dreams, we are so lucky to have been able to entice them in.”
It finished filming in 2018 and it stars: James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson (the Affair), Dafne Keene (Logan), Clark Peters (the Wire), Lin Manuel-Miranda, Georgina Campbell, Anne-Marie Duff, James Cosmo, Will Keene, Ayirian Bakar,
Go HERE for more info.
[This is a must for fans of His Dark Materials and who, like me, were disappointed by the film and its reception.]
[I skipped everything that premieres on CBS All Access - since I'm boycotting it, and Disney- All Access, ditto. Although how long that lasts in respect to Disney is up in there air. I'm too much of a Marvel/Star Wars geek for it to last long.]
Now, let's see if I remember to watch any of them -- if it's on HBO or NETFLIX or HULU or AMAZON not a problem...you can pretty much watch whenever you get around to it, but F/X or broadcast cable? Not so much.