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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Bloodlands’ Season 2 On Acorn TV, Where Brannick’s Sketchy Past Catches Up With Him Again

Season 1 of the Acorn TV series Bloodlands gave viewers a pretty straightforward detective drama layered with its troubled detective’s past life as an undercover operative in Northern Ireland. Season 2 brings a new mystery, but Tom Brannick’s past catches up with him again pretty much from the jump. BLOODLANDS SEASON 2: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: “1998. 21st February.” We see the shadow…

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TV Guide, February 1-14

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Cover: The Hot List -- Outlander’s Sam Heughan on Men in Kilts

Page 1: Contents, Your Feedback 

Page 2: Ask Matt -- Call Me Kat, Las Vegas with Josh Duhamel, Lucky Dog, Coming Next Issue -- TV Guide Magazine’s February 15 issue cover story is When Calls the Heart 

Page 4: TV Insider -- 25 top shows 

Page 5: First Look -- Aisha Hinds and Rob Lowe in 9-1-1: Lone Star as wildfires devastate the Austin area, The Show We’re Talking About in the Office -- Prodigal Son, The Big Number -- 70 is the staggering number of original movies Netflix plans to release this year with at least one new title each week 

Page 6: The Roush Review -- WandaVision 

Page 7: Resident Alien, Snowpiercer, The Long Song 

Page 8: Hot List 2021 -- read on for 32 reasons to love TV now including beautiful stars and jaw-dropping drama and sizzling costar chemistry plus puppies! -- Hot Scots -- Sam Heughan on Men in Kilts 

Page 9: Hot Topic -- Grey’s Anatomy, Hot Mess -- Tom Payne on Prodigal Son’s Malcolm Bright, Hot on the Trail -- TV Investigators Clarice Starling of Clarice and Eliza Scarlet of Miss Scarlet & the Duke and Tom Brannick of Bloodlands 

Page 10: Hot Chemistry -- NCIS’ Ellie Bishop and Nick Torres, Warm Sendoff -- a tribute to Alex Trebek, Hot Heroine -- Javicia Leslie on Batwoman 

Page 11: Hot Spot -- Space, Hot Dogs -- Puppy Bowls’ pooches, Hot Groundbreaker -- The Bachelor’s Matt James, Hot Soap -- General Hospital 

Page 12: Hot Trend -- costar couples like Scott Bakula and Chelsea Field on NCIS: New Orleans and Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone on God’s Favorite Idiot and Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton on The Walking Dead, Hot Property -- Fixer Upper: Welcome Home, Hot Competition -- new game shows, Burning Hot -- the cast of Station 19 

Page 13: Hot Home Theater -- streaming movies, Red Hot -- Conan O’Brien, Hot Streak -- Reese Witherspoon, Hot Hosts -- Tina Fey and Amy Poehler 

Page 18: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 1 -- Queen Latifah on The Equalizer 

Page 19: Monday, February 1 -- The Investigation, Roots, All American Stories, Atlanta Justice, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Golden Turkeys on TCM 

Page 20: Tuesday, February 2 -- Charlie’s Angels, The Resident, Finding Your Roots -- Jane Lynch and Jim Gaffigan, Home Again With the Fords, Wednesday, February 3 -- Chicago Med, Super Bowl Greatest Commercials 2021, Europe’s New Wild 

Page 21: Thursday, February 4 -- Al Davis vs. the NFL, Married at First Sight: Australia, Summer House, Impractical Jokers

Page 22: Friday, February 5 -- Made in Italy, Killer Advice, Gold Rush, Magnum P.I., In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl -- Katy Perry and John Williams 

Page 24: Saturday, February 6 -- Wonder Woman, Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn’t We Almost Have It All, Beverly Hills Wedding, Devil May Care 

Page 26: Sunday, February 7 -- Super Bowl LV, Kitten Bowl VIII, Crikey! It’s the Irwins!, Miss Scarlet & the Duke 

Page 27-41: TV listings 

Page 42: Stream It! Your guide to the very best streaming available now -- Netflix -- Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, The Ripper, The Staircase, three reasons to binge The Crew 

Page 43: Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke on Firefly Lane, new movies for every mood -- I want sci-fi thrills...Outside the Wife, I want to be scared...Red Dot, I want international drama...The White Tiger, I want family comedy...Charming 

Page 44: Prime Video -- Anna Paquin on Flack, Dexter, Black History Month Movies -- One Night in Miami, Sylvie’s Love, Freedom, What I’m Bingeing: Mozart in the Jungle 

Page 45: Hulu -- 5 great rom-coms for Valentine’s Day -- Date Night, 50 First Dates, Palm Springs, The Princess Bride, The Wedding Planner, BritBox -- The Pembrokeshire Murders, A Confession, The Heist at Hatton Garden, The Moorside 

Page 46: New Movie Releases 

Page 47: Series, Specials & Documentaries 

Page 48: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 2 -- Robin Roberts on Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage 

Page 49: Monday, February 8 -- Black Lightning, Monk, Ellen’s Game of Games, Street Outlaws, Antiques Roadshow, Crossing Lines, American Greed 

Page 50: Tuesday, February 9 -- Clarence Stewart on Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, House Hunters International, The Food That Built America, Battlestar Galactica 

Page 51: Wednesday, February 10 -- Louise Keoghan on Tough as Nails, Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas, Name That Tune, Chicago P.D., Hart to Hart 

Page 52: Thursday, February 11 -- Clarice, Days of Our Lives, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Young Sheldon 

Page 53: Friday, February 12 -- Henry Ian Cusick on MacGyver, TCM Romantic Weekend Getaway, Ancient Aliens, Hip Hop Uncovered, Saturday, February 13 -- 30 Coins, Playing Cupid 

Page 54: Sunday, February 14 -- American Idol, Crossword Mysteries: Terminal Descent

Page 55-74: TV listings 

Page 80: Cheers & Jeers -- cheers to Jeopardy!, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, The Good Doctor’s Christina Chang, The Goldbergs, jeers to the Sex and the City sequel, This Is Us, Riverdale’s Auteur storyline 

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BBC's Bloodlands - Staring James Nesbitt as DCI Tom Brannick & Charlene McKenna plays DS Niamh McGovern on the show

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Tom Brannick is losing every father of the year award for the rest of his life

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How To Watch Bloodlands Series 2 If You're Not From The UK

How To Watch Bloodlands Series 2 If You’re Not From The UK

Bloodlands is a crime series on BBC iPlayer that is set in Ireland and focuses on DCI Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt, The Missing) is a stony-faced Belfast detective called to investigate a prominent former IRA member’s disappearance. Now, since series 2 has been released, many fans from the US are wondering how they can watch Bloodlands if you’re not from the UK. Well, in this post, we will show…

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'Bloodlands' Tells Tale Of Troubled Times In Northern Ireland : NPR

‘Bloodlands’ Tells Tale Of Troubled Times In Northern Ireland : NPR

NPR’s Scott Simon talks to writer Chris Brandon about his new Acorn TV series, Bloodlands, which focuses on a cold case that takes Belfast detectives back to a violent period in Northern Ireland. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The luxury car of a crime boss is pulled out of a lake in Belfast, and Detective Tom Brannick recognizes the name of the man who was in the car but now can’t be found – Patrick…

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Bloodlands Episode 2 Questions & Theories: Goliath, the Owl Pendant and the Kidnapper

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Warning: contains MAJOR spoilers for Bloodlands episode 2.

In BBC thriller Bloodlands, in Belfast in early 1998, weeks before the Good Friday Agreement was reached, four people disappeared from both sides of the political conflict. They were former IRA member Joe Harkin, UVF Loyalist David Corry, Catholic priest Father Quinlan and military police officer Emma Brannick. The disappearances were made to look as though the victims had left the country, but it was suspected that all four had been executed by an assassin codenamed ‘Goliath’, an ‘inside man’ with access to police files. The disappearances were never solved, the investigation was hushed up, and evidence relating to them was removed from the police archive.

20 years later, three of the missing people – everybody but Emma Brannick – were discovered buried on an island in the middle of Strangford Lough. At the end of Bloodlands episode two, another body possibly joins them when DCI Tom Brannick shoots Adam Corry, brother to victim David, who had been having an affair with Brannick’s wife Emma before they both disappeared. Is Tom Brannick Goliath? How does the Pat Keenan kidnapping tie in? We sum up the major questions and theories below.

Who kidnapped Pat Keenan?

CCTV footage showed an unidentified brunette woman with Keenan in his car before the kidnapping. If it’s a character known to us, then our options so far are: Dr Tori Matthews (wearing a wig), who’s recently returned to Belfast from England and is secretly the illegitimate daughter of Goliath victim Father Simon Quinlan; DS Niamh McGovern, who only joined Brannick’s team six months ago and may have a secret connection to the case though if she does, she has an excellent poker face; Izzy Brannick, daughter to Tom, whose mother is believed to have been killed by Goliath; or – if she’s still alive – Emma Brannick herself.

Why was Pat Keenan kidnapped?

Former IRA member Pat Keenan was kidnapped by someone who wanted to force the police into reopening the official investigation into the 1998 ‘Goliath’ disappearances. The kidnapper left a postcard of the ‘Goliath’ shipbuilding gantry crane – a famous landmark on Queen’s Island, Belfast – on Kennan’s car wing mirror and at the hotel in which he was held to prompt the police to revisit the four disappearances that were hushed up at the time.

It’s likely therefore that the kidnapper has a connection to one of the four 1998 victims: David Corry, Joe Harkin, Father Simon Quinlan and – though her body has not been found so it’s still possible that she’s alive – Emma Brannick.

Who was Adam Corry’s mystery tea drinker?

Tom Brannick thinks that it’s someone involved in Pat Keenan’s kidnapping, and that they and Adam cooked up the kidnap plan because they wanted the Goliath investigation reopened due to their links to the victims. If it’s somebody we’ve already met then after episode two, most people’s money would be on Dr Tori Matthews, though crime scene investigator ‘Dinger’ also seems worthy of suspicion (see below.)

Four months before Keenan’s kidnapping took place, Adam Corry contacted a local fisherman and tide expert under the false name of Frank McPhee, asking about the Goliath disappearances and the possibility that there were bodies buried on that loch island (as suggested by the farmer witness statement that wasn’t followed up back in 1998). Corry and a co-conspirator could have planned the whole thing to prompt the police to start digging on that island.

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How does Dinger know so much about the Goliath case?

Crime scene investigator ‘Dinger’ (played by Michael Smiley) tells DS McGovern that he and Tom Brannick go back “a wee while”. He has a lot of information about the 1998 Goliath disappearances, including the specific intelligence unit Emma Brannick was recruited to, and he suggests – like Adam Corry – that DCS Jackie Twomey is responsible for making the original investigation go away. Dinger also knows about the Goliath calling card left on Pat Keenan’s car and at the hotel, information that to our knowledge, only three officers had: Brannick, McGovern and Twomey.

Add to that the fact that Michael Smiley’s a terrific actor too good to waste on a bit part, and it’s likely Dinger’s more involved than it first appears. “At some point, the past has to die,” he told McGovern. Just what ‘Goliath’ might say…

Did Emma Brannick engineer her own disappearance?

As Dinger tells McGovern at the pub, if anybody could successfully fake their own disappearance, it’s Emma Brannick. As a military intelligence ‘spook’, Emma would have had the skills and connections to engineer her own kidnapping. The question is: why might she do it? One thing that suggests Emma was taken and didn’t run away was that she went missing while she was looking after her infant daughter Izzy. Is she the type of person to put her young child at risk, or didn’t she have a choice?

Adam Corry susses out that his brother and Emma were having an affair (hence his corpse being discovered wearing her owl pendant), so did they plan to run away together? Did Tom discover the affair and ‘disappear’ the two of them?

Why was Jackie Twomey secretly meeting with Siobhan Harkin?

“Siobhan, we need to be careful,” says Jackie Twomey after going to a static caravan, retrieving a hidden mobile phone and then arranging to meet Joe Harkin’s widow in a remote location. Are they simply having an affair, or does Twomey have a stake in the ongoing rift between the dead Joe Harkin and Pat Keenan, who fell out years earlier when Harkin lent Keenan the money to start his haulage company?

Who is Dr Tori Matthews really?

As we saw from her reaction to Izzy saying that her father believed the third unidentified victim on the island to be a priest, and the visit to her mother’s care home, Tori Matthews is the illegitimate daughter of Catholic priest Father Simon Quinlan. She only recently returned to Belfast, and could easily have arranged to ‘accidentally’ run in to Brannick and McGovern on their visit to the hospital investigating Keenan’s disappearance. It’s worth remembering that Keenan had an appointment at the hospital where Matthews works on the day of his disappearance.

Matthews also made a point of asking Tom his daughter’s name, seeking Izzy out in a lecture and befriending her. She was at the rugby match with Tom and Izzy, and for whatever reason, could even have tipped off the Keenan gang of their whereabouts, facilitating the attack on Izzy.

Is Izzy even Tom’s biological daughter?

There’s nothing yet to suggest this, but Adam Corry worked out that his brother David was having an affair with a married woman, and David’s corpse was found wearing the distinctive owl pendant that Tom and Emily both wore, engraved with an ‘E’ for Emily. As Izzy was very young at the time of her mother’s disappearance, there’s a chance that the affair began before Izzy was born, and David Corry is Izzy’s biological father. Total speculation at this stage, of course.

Why did Tom shoot Adam Corry?

One answer would be that Tom is ‘Goliath’ – i.e. he was the original assassin of the three victims, and perhaps also the killer of his wife Emma, whose remains have yet to be found. In that scenario, Tom would have killed Adam Corry because he’d discovered Tom’s true identity and so represented a threat.

Another is that Tom is protecting the real ‘Goliath’, i.e. his wife Emma Brannick. If Tom discovered that his wife – a trained military police officer and so capable of committing the close-range 9mm murders – was the assassin back in 1998, instead of turning her in perhaps he told her to run and has been covering her tracks ever since by destroying the case paperwork. With two episodes yet to come, it’s all to play for.

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Four-part thriller Bloodlands continues on Sunday the 7th of March at 9pm on BBC One.

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Bloodlands is a thriller about fictional detective Tom Brannick, who is forced to grapple with his past when he is sent on the hunt for a mythical assassin. His journey asks the universal questions of what we will do to protect the ones we love, and how far will we go to achieve that end. 

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Noticias de series de la semana: Mr. Glover & Mrs. Waller-Bridge

Renovaciones

BBC One ha renovado The Split por una tercera y última temporada

HBO Max ha renovado Search Party por una quinta temporada

HBO Max ha renovado Close Enough por una tercera temporada

Cancelaciones

La octava temporada de Brooklyn Nine-Nine (NBC) será la última

The CW ha descartado la serie Wonder Girl

Noticias cortas

Lucasfilm ha despedido a Gina Carano (Cara Dune) de The Mandalorian por sus declaraciones en las redes.

Curtiss Cook (Douda) será regular en la cuarta temporada de The Chi.

Fichajes

Claire Danes (Homeland, My So-Called Life) sustituye a Keira Knightley como protagonista de The Essex Serpent.

Guy Pearce (Mildred Pierce, Memento) protagonizará Mare of Easttown junto a Kate Winslet. Sustituye a Ben Miles en el papel de Richard Bryan, profesor visitante de escritura creativa que escribió una novela deslumbrante hace veinticinco años. 

Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, Narcos) y Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones, His Dark Materials) protagonizarán The Last of Us. Serán Joel y Ellie.

Carrie Preston (The Good Wife, Claws) será Robbie McClung, abogada defensora de Duntsch (Joshua Jackson), en Dr. Death.

Harry Hamlin (Mad Men, Shameless) y Dylan Baker (The Americans, The Good Wife) serán el presentador Tom Brokaw y el agente del FBI Ed Copak en The Hot Zone. Anthrax.

Jamie Chung (The Gifted, Once Upon a Time) y Oscar Wahlberg (NOS4A2, Manchester by the Sea) serán recurrentes en el revival de Dexter como Molly, una famosa podcaster de Los Ángeles; y Zach, capitán del equipo de lucha del instituto de Iron Lake.

Jasika Nicole (Fringe, The Good Doctor) será recurrente en Punky Brewster como Lauren, la novia de Cherie (Cherie Johnson).

Christina Milian (Soundtrack, The Oath) sustituye a la fallecida Naya Rivera en el papel de Collette en Step Up: High Water.

Hannah Ware (The First, Boss) protagonizará The One. Será Rebecca, CEO fundadora de MatchDNA, una compañía tecnológica que permite a la gente identificar a su pareja ideal con un test de ADN.

Mary McDonnell (Major Crimes, Battlestar Galactica), Adam Arkin (Sons of Anarchy, Chicago Hope), Matthew Glave (Better Things, Angie Tribeca) y Jalen Thomas Brooks (Animal Kingdom) se unen como recurrentes a Rebel. 

Melissa De Sousa (On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Valley of the Dolls) se une a la cuarta temporada de Black Lightning. Será Ana López, jefa de policía.

Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) será Minerva Marble en la quinta temporada de Riverdale.

Yanic Truesdale (Gilmore Girls), Steve Mallory (The Boss, The Happytime Murders), Usman Ally (Nobodies, On Becoming a God in Central Florida), Ana Scotney (Shortland Street, Educators) y Chris Sandiford (What We Do in the Shadows) completan el reparto de God's Favorite Idiot. Serán Chamuel, arcángel nuevo en el pueblo; Frisbee, gerente de nivel medio; Mohsin Raza, que ha elegido una vida íntegra antes que el éxito financiero o una posición de liderazgo; Wendy, generosa y llena de empatía; y Tom, leal e irritante.  

Rob Delaney (Catastrophe), Alice Eve (Iron Fist, Black Mirror) y Edwina Findley (Treme, If Loving You Is Wrong) se unen como recurrentes a The Power.

Angus Macfadyen (Turn, Strange Angel) será Jor-El en Superman & Lois.

Matt Lauria (Friday Night Lights, Kingdom), Paula Newsome (Chicago Med, Barry) y Mel Rodriguez (The Last Man on Earth) se unen al revival de CSI. Serán Josh, Maxine y Hugo.

Rhys Ifans (Berlin Station, Notting Hill), Steve Toussaint (Doctors, Berlin Station), Eve Best (Nurse Jackie, Fate: The Winx Saga) y Sonoya Mizuno (Devs, Maniac) serán Otto Hightower, la mano del rey Viserys (Paddy Considine) y padre de Alicent (Olivia Cook); Lord Corlys Velaryon, conocido como The Sea Snake; la princesa Rhaenys Velaryon, la esposa de Lord Corlys y prima de Viserys; y Mysaria, aliada del príncipe Daemon; en House of the Dragon.

Matthew Willig (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) será recurrente como el luchador Andr the Giant en Young Rock.

Howard Charles (The Musketeers, The Widow) se une como regular a la segunda temporada de Top Boy. Será Curtis, involucrado en una trama de mafias en Liverpool.

Tabitha Brown y Jason Weaver (Smart Guy) se unen como recurrentes a la cuarta temporada de The Chi.

Luke Cook (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Katy Keene) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de Dynasty como Oliver, exnovio de Kirby (Maddison Brown).

Hannah Einbinder será Ava, la joven guionista que Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) es obligada a contratar, en la comedia de HBO Max protagonizada por Smart. Carl Clemons-Hopkins (Chicago Med, The Chi) será Marcus, el jefe de operaciones de Deborah. Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Mick), Christopher McDonald (Thelma & Louise), Paul W. Downs (Broad City, Rough Night), Mark Indelicato (Ugly Betty), Poppy Liu (Better Call Saul), Johnny Sibilly (Pose), Meg Stalter y Rose Abdoo (Gilmore Girls, Parenthood) participarán como invitados recurrentes.

Pósters

   Nuevas series

Donald Glover (Atlanta, Community) y Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Broadchurch) protagonizarán Mr. & Mrs. Smith, basada en la película de 2005, para Amazon. Cocreada por Glover, Waller-Bridge y Francesca Sloane (Fargo, Seven Seconds), que será la showrunner.

Netflix prepara The Overstory, adaptación de la novela de Richard Powers (2018). Trata sobre un mundo junto al nuestro que es extenso, interconectado, lleno de recursos, inventivo y casi invisible para nosotros. Un puñado de gente aprende a verlo y se ven arrastrados a la catástrofe que se prepara. Escrita por Richard Robbins (Good Girls Revolt, 12 Monkeys). Producida por David Benioff y D.B. Weiss, los creadores de Game of Thrones; y Hugh Jackman (X-Men Origins: Wolverine).

Amazon ha encargado ocho episodios de The Summer I Turned Pretty, adaptación de la trilogía de novelas de Jenny Han (To All the Boys I've Loved Before). Es un drama multigeneracional centrado en un triángulo amoroso entre una chica y dos hermanos. Escrita y producida por Han y Gabrielle Stanton (Haven, The Flash).

Kate del Castillo (La Reina del Sur, Ingobernable), Roselyn Sanchez (Devious Maids, Without a Trace), Sylvia Sáenz (Betty en NY, 100 días para enamorarnos) y Jeimy Osorio (Betty en NY, Celia) protagonizarán Armas de mujer, en la que detienen a los maridos de las cuatro protagonistas por pertenencia a la misma organización criminal, en Peacock. Creada por José Luis Acosta (Sin tetas no hay paraíso, Ana y los 7), escrita y producida por Marcos Santana (La Reina del Sur, Dime quién soy) y dirigida por Enrique Begné (Compadres, Busco novio para mi mujer) y Claudia Pedraza (La Reina del Sur, Decisiones).

Carla Gugino (The Haunting of Hill House, Jett) protagonizará Leopard Skin, en la que una banda de ladrones, tras fracasar en un robo de joyas, se esconde en una casa en la playa donde viven dos mujeres. Completan el reparto Amelia Eve (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Gentry White (UnREAL, Jett), Philip Winchester (Strike Back, Law & Order: SVU), Margot Bingham (She's Gotta Have It, The Walking Dead), Gaite Jansen (Jett, Peaky Blinders), Nora Arnezeder (Riviera, Zoo) y Ana de la Reguera (Goliath, Narcos). Escrita por Sebastian Gutierrez (Jett, Snakes on a Plane). No hay cadena asociada.

BBC One encarga Bloodlands, thriller en el que una nota de suicidio en una coche la recuerda al inspector Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt, The Missing, Lucky Man) un famoso caso antiguo sin cerrar y relacionado con él. Completan el reparto Lisa Dwan (Top Boy), Lorcan Cranitch (Roma, Atlantis), Charlene McKenna (Ripper Street, Death and Nightingales), Ian McElhinney (Game of Thrones, Derry Girls), Lola Petticrew (Dating Amber, Come Home), Chris Walley (The Young Offenders), Michael Smiley (Luther, Death and Nightingales), Kathy Kiera Clarke (Derry Girls), Susan Lynch (Happy Valley, Unforgotten), Peter Ballance (Game of Thrones), Asan N'Jie (Emmerdale Farm, Mount Pleasant), Cara Kelly (Trust Me) y Flora Montgomery (A Very English Scandal). Escrita por Chris Brandon, dirigida por Pete Travis (Project Blue Book, The Jury) y producida por Jed Mercurio (Line of Duty, Bodyguard).

The CW ha encargado un reboot de The 4400. Escrita por Ariana Jackson (Riverdale).

Peacock ha encargado diez episodios de The Best Man, limited series continuación de la película de 1999 y su secuela de 2013. Volverán Morris Chestnut, Melissa De Sousa, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long y Harold Perrineau. Escrita y producida por Malcolm D. Lee, guionista y director de las dos películas.

FOX prepara una serie de animación adaptación del juego Clue (Cluedo).

FOX encarga una comedia de animación ambientada en la Antigua Grecia que seguirá a una familia de humanos, dioses y monstruos que intentan gobernar una de las primeras ciudades del mundo sin matarse entre ellos. De Dan Harmon (Community, Rick & Morty).

HBO Max ha encargado dos temporadas del revival de la serie de animación Clone High. Escrita por Erica Rivinoja (South Park, Borat 2).

HBO Max encarga Velma, serie de animación precuela de Scooby-Doo. Mindy Kaling producirá la serie y pondrá voz a la protagonista.

HBO Max encarga Fired on Mars, comedia ambientada en el campus de una empresa de tecnología en Marte. Basada en el cortometraje animado de Nate Sherman y Nick Vokey. Producida por Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live).

Spectrum ha encargado doce episodios de Long Slow Exhale, drama en el que la entrenadora de un equipo de baloncesto femenino universitario (Rose Rollins; The L Word, The Catch) se encuentra en medio de un escándalo de abuso sexual. Creada y escrita por Pam Veasey (L.A.'s Finest, CSI: NY).

Amazon desarrolla Oona Out of Order, adaptación de la novela de Margarita Montimore (2020) en la que el día de su decimonoveno cumpleaños una chica se ve dentro de su propio cuerpo pero con cincuenta y cinco años. Escrita y producida por Alice Bell (Offspring, The Beautiful Lie).

Tiffany Haddish (The Carmichael Show, Girls Trip) ha adquirido los derechos del libro Shakespeare's Secret Messiah: The Dark Lady, de Joseph Atwill (2014), para adaptarlo a la televisión. Protagonizará y producirá la limited series, titulada The Bardess, que tratará sobre Amelia Bassano, poetisa veneciana negra y judía que algunos creen que está detrás del trabajo literario de Shakespeare. Escrita y dirigida por Amma Asante (The Handmaid's Tale, Mrs. America) y producida por Akiva Goldsman (Underground, Fringe). Aún no hay cadena asociada. 

Fechas

La cuarta temporada de Unforgotten se estrena en ITV el 22 de febrero

Genera+ion se estrena en HBO Max el 11 de marzo

La tercera temporada de Paradise P.D. llega a Netflix el 12 de marzo

Country Comfort llega a Netflix el 19 de marzo

Genius: Aretha se estrena en NatGeo el 21 de marzo

Mare of Easttown se estrena en HBO el 18 de abril

La tercera y última temporada de Shrill llega a Hulu el 7 de mayo

La séptima temporada de Good Witch se estrena en Hallmark el 16 de mayo 

Tráilers y promos

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Genera+ion

Paradise P.D. - Temporada 3

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Acțiunea urmărește încercările detectivului nord-irlandez Tom Brannick de a-l găsi pe ucigașul în serie Goliath (cel care-i omorîse la un moment dat soția).

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Ocean Breeze results -Farrell Lions

70TH ANNUAL NOVICE AND 84TH ANNUAL JUNIOR MIDGET INTERSECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FARRELL TEAM RESULTS: 9:30 NOVICE 55 METER HIGH HURDLES (FINAL ON TIME) Cowan 11.50 9:45 NOVICE 55 METER DASH (HEATS & SEMI’S) Russo 7.40 Nirenberg Niosi Rotondi 7.30 Brogle Lowery Cowan 7.92 Doyle 7.99 Gorman 8.04 D’Angelo 8.58 9:30 NOVICE 300 METER RUN FINAL ON TIME Bianchi 41.01 Knight 43.36 Noel 44.86 Fiecter51.70 Valenti 41.94 Ellams 42.43 Perez 42.27 Saccomagno 44.07 M.Russo 45.58 Abbruzzese 46.13 Vassallo 46.73 Frisolone 50.74 Carr 49.51 Guastella 51.0 9:55 NOVICE 600 METER RUN Finn 1:31 W.Devito 1:36 10:15 NOVICE 1000 METER RUN Bartiromo 3:10 Brannick 3:02 Harburg 3:11 Nativo 3:14 Popovics 3:19 10:30 NOVICE 800 METER RELAY FINAL ON TIME A: Ciuffo 27.6 Lanore 26.3 Barkovich 28.2 Perez 25.9 Total 1:48.03 B: Welborn 28.5 Vassallo 29.7 O.J.Devito 29.2 Fiechter 32.90 Total 2:00.43 C: Campanile 28.9 Davila 31.5 Saccomagno 29.1 M.Russo 29.5 Total D: Minogue 32.3 Frisolone 31.3 Carr 31.9 D’Angelo 34 JUNIOR 3200 METER RELAY 11:15 NOVICE 3200 METER RUN Killian10:18(71,2:28,5:04) McCole Rainbolt 10:13(71, 2:28,5:04) Bentivegna 10:08(71, 2:28,5:04) 11:30 NOVICE 1600 METER RUN Idone-6:05 Bertone-5:40 Diaz-5:16 Dumais-5:35 Gasparino- 5:11 Paul Mitsopoulos-5:07 Denis Doda-5:11 James Moore-5:39 Sal Puma-DNR Thomas Trapp-5:39 Tazio Cutrona-DNR Rocco Enia-5:58 Chris Vitale-5:56 Joe Termini-5:43 Derek Borrero-DNR Joe Morreale-DNR Vincent Nappi-6:35 Vincent Macaluso-5:48 Mike Ryan-6:01 Luke Sypniewski-6:15 Joe Sangiorgi-DNR Daniel Briscoe-6:21 Joe Barbera6:23 James Gillen-6:18 Donald Delprete-6:36 Tom Curty-DNR Rich Belitski-6:35 12:10 VARSITY BOYS 800 METER RELAY A(1:37): Nirenberg Russo Niosi Rotondi B(1:44): Lowery Bianchi Valenti Ellams 1:05 VARSITY BOYS 3200 METER RELAY A-Paxis(30,62,1:32)2:08 McCole 2:13 Rainbolt 2:20 Devito 2:08 Team-8:50 B-Siconolfi(31,64,1:38)2:12 Brannick 2:20 Bentivegna(69)2:19 Occhiuto(62)2:11 C-Gasparino(67,1:43)2:21 Diaz(69)2:27 Harburg 2:29 Vitale 2:32 D- Bartiromo(67,1:43)2:21 Nativo 2:28 Bertone 2:43 Fusaro 2:28 (ALTERNATES: Fusaro Idone) 2:05 VARSITY BOYS 1600 METER RELAY A(4:05)- Lanore 60.4 Barkovich 62.5 Ciuffo 62.6 Abbruzzese 66.6 B(4:15)- Campanile 30-66.7 Davila 33-71.4 Minogue 34-76.5 Guastella 72.50 Devito 69 2:23 4:41 INDOOR PR Paxis 4:44 PR Fusaro 5:17 Occhiuto 5:59 (TIED PR) Siconolfi 4:53 (PR) Vitale 5:30*** WE WILL RUN AHEAD OF SCHEDULE WHENEVER POSSIBLE. *** FIELD EVENTS 9:30 NOVICE POLE VAULT Drennan 9-00 NOVICE SHOT PUT TO FOLLOW JUNIOR SHOT PUT (3 THROWS NO FINAL) Springer 31-02 Goodwin DiBenedetto D’Ambrosio Natale 31-07 Graulich 21-01 Caruso 30-03 Bennett 25-10 Cantasano 27-09 Meyer 27-11 Ramirez 18-06 Margolis 18-06 9:30 NOVICE LONG JUMP Ferraioli Brogle 16’¾” Gorman 15’4” Doyle 16’4’½” Knight 14’8” Welborn 15’1” O.J.Devito 15’4’½” NOVICE TRIPLE JUMP Justiniano 30’ Cipriani 34’5”n 11:30 NOVICE AND JUNIOR HIGH JUMP Downey 5’2” Kelly 5’4” 1:30 VARSITY BOYS SHOT PUT (40’ ONLY MEASURED) Ruiz-Gomez 34-10 Springer 31-00 Natale 30-09

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Bloodlands: BBC Thriller Isn’t the New Line of Duty (But Watch It Anyway)

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The Bloodlands trailer first gives us police boats crossing a desolate loch, and the timbrous tones of James Nesbitt recapping a decades-old case about an assassin codenamed Goliath. Then comes the legend: “From the Executive Producer of Bodyguard and Line of Duty.” The new four-part BBC crime drama is the first from Hat Trick Mercurio, the new production company of Bodyguard and Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio, the biggest name in UK TV thrillers and a connection well worth advertising. 

A connection, in fact, you’d be mad not to advertise. Zig-zagging political thriller Bodyguard was a gargantuan hit, and here in the UK, Line of Duty is more popular than sunshine. (The arrival of a new series featuring AC-12 prompts the nation to a similarly giddy high, but instead of men walking around without tops on and women taking photos of their legs in the park, we all start calling each other ‘Fella’ and harbouring suspicions about the probity of Sandra in Accounts.) Anyone launching a new crime drama and not trying to get people to call it ‘the next Line of Duty’ wouldn’t be doing their job. 

There are other sound reasons to draw the link: like Line of Duty, Bloodlands is also a twist-filled, Belfast-filmed BBC police thriller about a no-nonsense Northern Irish detective on the trail of a bent copper. Both feature burning cars and tense bomb disposal units. Superficially, there’s plenty of crossover but deeper down? They’re apples and oranges, or any other idiom of Supt. Ted Hastings’ choosing. 

Here’s why: tell me where Line of Duty is set. Not filmed (Belfast, and before that, Birmingham), but set. Where in England does its story take place? 

We can’t rightly answer because the city is unspecified in Line of Duty. The names of streets, neighbourhoods, landmarks and police precincts are inventions (or, quite rightly, fan nods to Hill Street Blues). It’s not a show about a specific force policing a specific place with a specific history, but something broader. It’s about the struggle between human weakness and strength – often within a single character – inside the institution of the police. It’s about greed and foibles and hypocrisy, laziness and temptation, and ultimately, about the gap between moral justice and the letter of the law. (The letter.)

Bloodlands isn’t just filmed in Belfast, it’s set there. Specifically, it’s set in modern-day Belfast, two decades on from the Good Friday Agreement that signalled an end to much of the violence that arose from political conflict in Northern Ireland. Even more specifically, it’s written by local boy Chris Brandon, who grew up near the series’ location of Stranford Lough. Its lead DCI Tom Brannick (Nesbitt) is a former member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, now the Police Service of Northern Ireland, not a fictional unit on an anonymous force. Brannick lost dearly during the Troubles, and the case we join him investigating has its roots in the lead-up to the Belfast Agreement. 

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Specificity works in Bloodlands’ favour. It’s weakest where it’s most generic (you won’t need me to provide a list of detective show clichés, they’re there from the off). The political context of Belfast then and now, and the emotional aftermath of the Troubles on the people of Northern Ireland is this thriller’s real meat. It’s likely what drew an actor of James Nesbitt’s calibre to the material, which in turn drew the attention of the BBC.

Thanks to funding programmes and tax relief provided by Northern Ireland Screen, more and more British TV drama is now filmed in Belfast. Some shows, like Line of Duty, use the city anonymously, but others choose to tap into the setting’s history. The most recent series of ITV’s Marcella upped sticks dramatically to take the action from London to Belfast, with Northern Ireland Screen funding. Story-wise, the result was… patchy, but its most tantalising thread hinted at the Troubles-specific history of a Belfast crime family matriarch played by Amanda Burton. (Admittedly, taking into account the sledge-hammer subtlety of the rest of the series, Northern Ireland likely wouldn’t have thanked Marcella had it dug deeper into that seam.)

Other dramas are better suited to real-world political reflection, and it’s satisfying to see a series like Bloodlands embed itself into Belfast’s singular political context. It would be more satisfying if it could take a leaf from Line of Duty’s book and credit the audience with the ability to keep up without explaining quite so much, quite so often. (If fewer shows made allowances for audiences watching with one eye scrolling on their phones, would viewers put them down for a second and actually watch? In all honesty, probably not.)

So that’s one reason Bloodlands isn’t the new Line of Duty. Yes, they’re both thrillers, but one is pinned to a singular political legacy, the other isn’t. There are other differences. Bloodlands exists in a moody world of chilly landscapes and terse, troubled symbolism, while Line of Duty’s commitment to naturalism is such that for vast stretches of police jargon dialogue, most of us haven’t a single clue what’s being said but still couldn’t be happier about it. 

Lastly – and best of all – Bloodlands isn’t the new Line of Duty because it doesn’t need to be. Line of Duty already exists and there’s a brand new series so close you can practically smell it! What does it smell of, you ask? A top note of Steve’s waistcoat over a base note of Kate telling someone to stop making a tit of themselves. In other words: perfection, fella.

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Bloodlands starts on Sunday the 21st of February at 9pm on BBC One.

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