Again, this week I will not be blogging my weekly TV post about upcoming new shows I would recommend. Summer TV is boring as the TV companies hold back new content for the autumn. Looking into next week there is nothing to get excited about so I have spent most of my time watching YouTube and whatever I could, dig up online and watching the European Championship.
Below there are some new autumn content due for release and there are others re- commissioned like the BBC’s Doctor Who, with a new lady Doctor. There is Victoria due back where a former Doctor Who assistant now playing a Queen to look forward to on ITV and more.
Strangers – ITV
Strangers staring John Simm star as Professor Jonah Mulray, whose world comes crashing down when his wife is killed in a car crash in Hong Kong. Though his wife lived and worked there for six months, Jonah’s fear of flying as stopped him from ever visiting.
Now forced to abandon his sheltered life, he must venture across the world to identify her body. Once he arrives, he finds the shocking truth, of his wife’s death. Then he is drawn into deeper into web of conspiracy. Not helping he is in a foreign and unfamiliar place.
Jonah’s search for the truth about his wife’s death will form the spine of the eight-part series, written by new screenwriting duo Mark Denton and Jonny Stockwood.
Wanderlust – BBC1
Sodom and Gomorrah (not the bible) is coming to BBC1 and Wanderlust according to early reports will bring pure filth to your TV screen that will shock the country. Written by award-winning playwright Nick Payne and loosely based on his 2010 theatre production of the same name, it tackles the question of whether lifelong monogamy is possible – or even desirable. The tone is “searingly insightful” but also “funny”.
The BBC describes Joy as “a therapist trying to find a way to keep her spark with her husband alive after a cycling accident causes them to reassess their relationship,” adding: “As we meet her family, friends, neighbours and clients, remarkable yet relatable stories of love, lust and forbidden desire emerge.”
Maniac – Netflix
Maniac follows "Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim, two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of treatment gives them hope. Inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray, claims he can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently
The War of the Worlds – BBC1
The War of the Worlds (1897) is a novel by English author HG Wells, who also wrote The Time Machine becoming known as the father of science fiction. It’s one of the earliest books to tell the story of a conflict between humankind and an extra-terrestrial race – in this case, Martians.
When a strange object lands in the heart of England and hatches, the inhabitants of Earth find themselves under attack from ruthless aliens armed with heat rays and poisonous smoke. The three-part drama follows one man’s attempt to escape the ruthless Martians – but they are determined to destroy all human life as they attempt to conquer the earth… This is version is set in Victorian Britain
Mother’s Day BBC2
Two young children were killed and dozens were injured when two small bombs exploded on Bridge Street in Warrington on 20th March 1993.
The 90-minute feature will tell the story of two women living either side of the Irish Sea, who are brought together following the tragedy. McClure will play Susan McHugh, the real-life Dubliner who organised one of the largest peace rallies in Irish history in the wake of the bombing, while Maxwell Martin will star as Wendy Parry, whose 12-year-old son Tim lost his life in the attack. The drama will mark the 25th anniversary of the tragedy when it airs on BBC2 this autumn.
Killing Eve
This was a highly anticipated new thriller series from Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Luke Jennings bases killing Eve on the Villanelle novellas, the 8-part adaptation stars Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy) as Eve, a bored MI5 security officer whose desk job does not fulfil her fantasies of being a spy. Doctor Foster's Jodie Comer, meanwhile, will be Villanelle, a fearsome assassin clinging to the luxuries her violent job affords her. When Eve is tasked with tracking down Villanelle before she can strike again, the two women are thrown into a cat-and-mouse game that turns the traditional spy-thriller on its head.
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