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THE KNICK: haunting quality of a fever dream from which you didn’t want to wake
Typhoid Mary and the birth of ‘contact tracing’ – as seen in The Knick Want to know why ‘tracing asymptomatic carriers’ works? Then watch Steven Soderbergh's brilliant, gory historical drama
“ But Thack laid on his back was the perfect fade to grey. The Knick had finished as it started: with the haunting quality of a fever dream from which you didn’t want to wake. “
New York has been paralysed by a wave of deaths, caused by a fast-acting and unrelenting infection. It strikes indiscriminately, targeting the wealthy as ruthlessly as the downtrodden. Scariest of all, this is a hidden killer. By the time you discover you’re sick, it’s often too late. Survival is a roll of the dice.
Such is life as apprehensively lived in Manhattan today, indeed in the rest of the world. Which may explain why we’re all glued to movies such as Contagion and Outbreak, and Netflix’s documentary Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak. But it was also a key plot point from a little-watched television drama that ran in 2014 and 2015. A storyline that was, in turn, based on the real-life case of a lethal outbreak in New York at the turn of the century.
Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick was the prestige-TV equivalent of one of your five-a-day. And it came just three years after he directed Contagion, about a Covid-19-style outbreak. More importantly, it was about the birth of modern medicine: the painful and gory gestation of practices we take for granted now.
Yet the Knick (now available on demand through Sky) explores advances in brain surgery, anaesthetics, infant mortality rates and, most significantly from a 2020 perspective, the battle against infectious diseases such as typhoid and tuberculosis, which we see claim a baby in its cot.
The setting is a baroque New York hospital, The Knickerbocker (based on a real hospital in Harlem which finally closed in 1979). The year was 1900: a time when moustaches were huge, syringes even bigger, and surgery had more to do with lopped-off limbs than hip replacements.
The Knick was a period caper with a very modern pulse. Soderbergh used it as a vehicle to address such eternal themes as addiction, racism and the struggle between head and heart (not to mention the importance of a perfectly maintained ’tache).
It starred Clive Owen, one of the go-to-actors for tortured intensity, as a maverick surgeon with the fantastically old-fashioned name of Dr John “Thack” Thackery. We see him forge ahead in areas such as skin grafting (he grafts skin from a patient’s arm to her nose), placenta previa surgery and hernia repair. He was a pioneer working in a time of unprecedented medical advancement.
As was the real-life surgeon upon whom he was loosely based. William Halsted was the house physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he introduced such innovations as patient charts, and invented the painful-sounding Halsted mosquito forceps – “a ratcheted haemostat to secure and clamp bleeding vessels”. And he married the first nurse ever to wear gloves during an operation. He was, in addition, addicted to cocaine and morphine (then legally available), requiring a minimum cocaine intake of three-grammes daily.
With the cocaine and the clamps and the great facial hair, you can see why he was irresistible to Soderbergh and The Knick’s creators, Jack Amiel and Michael Begler. Their fictional version of Halsted was a classic flawed anti-hero. In a just world, Thack would have joined the ranks of the small screen’s great “difficult men”, alongside Tony Soprano, Walter White and Don Draper.
Thack was portrayed by Owen as charismatic, enigmatic, permanently dishevelled and moderately racist (there are tensions early on over the hiring of African-American doctor Dr. Algernon C. Edwards). He also romped with prostitutes – as was the fashion at the time – and began the day with enough cocaine to floor a camel.
With coronavirus bringing humanity to a stand-still, Thackery is ideal company for an extended binge-watch. The killer infection plot surfaces midway through the first of its two seasons. It doesn’t directly involve Thack. He is otherwise occupied taking drugs and cavorting with nurse Lucy (Eve Hewson, daughter of Bono).
Investigating the deaths are two second-string characters, Health Inspector Jacob Speight (David Fierro) and Cornelia Robertson (Julia Rylance), society lady and head of The Knick’s social welfare office. They discover all the households struck down with typhoid , a bacterial fever caused by a pernicious strain of salmonella, have one thing in common: a County Tyrone cook named Mary Mallon worked there.
But how could a cook spread typhoid, which cannot survive the high temperatures associated with preparing food? Eventually they work it out: she’s passing on the fever through her signature room-temperature dish of peach melba. This leads to another question: if she’s knowingly spreading typhoid all over the Upper East Side, why doesn’t she herself show symptoms?
The answer lies in a cutting-edge new theory: that some individuals carry and spread infection whilst themselves not developing symptoms. It’s a condition known as “asymptomatic”. Today, we all know what that entails, but at the time it wasn’t universally accepted within the medical profession.
Certainly, the characters in The Knick struggle to get their heads around it. “She must be a filthy thing and as sick as a cesspool,” Speight says to Robertson as they rush to stop Mary – “Typhoid Mary”, they’ve dubbed her – from serving another dose of lethal peaches.
How did they find her? By tracking down all those who fell ill, and then the people with whom they interacted, and overlaying the data points on a map of Manhattan. In other words, by “contact tracing” – a concept which might have sounded dreary a few months ago, but which today is on everyone’s lips.
In the final confrontation, they head her off at the kitchen, and she’s arrested attempting to flee. (Some might say that the American actress, Melissa McMeekin, should also be in the dock for her dreadful Irish accent, which suggests a heavy viral load of Darby O’Gill and the Little People.) Scientific ignorance, alas, wins the day. Just two episodes later, Typhoid Mary is freed, when the judge refuses to believe that someone could transmit a lethal fever while immune to its symptoms.
These are, more or less, the facts of the real-life case of Typhoid Mary, an immigrant from the Old Country estimated to have fatally spread the fever to more than 50 people (via her delicious ice-cream, however, not peach melba). Yet there was no Hollywood ending for her, despite press baron William Randolph Hearst helping fund her defence at trial. She avoided prison, as she does in The Knick, but the Typhoid Mary name followed her around. And, though she found work under a number of aliases, people continued to die in her vicinity.
Mallon was eventually sent back to North Brother Island in New York’s East River – where we she see her incarcerated in The Knick – and lived out the last 23 years of her life in enforced isolation. After her death from a stroke in 1938 at age 69, an autopsy revealed a gall bladder riddled with typhoid bacteria.
The Knick itself would submit to the inevitable after two seasons and just 20 episodes. And yet despite low ratings, it wasn’t necessarily an obvious candidate for cancellation. The critics loved it, and Soderbergh, one of the most instinctive filmmakers since Spielberg, made it quickly and cheaply for HBO offshoot Cinemax. (Incredibly cheaply, in fact, considering the realism with which he brought to life turn-of-the-century New York.)
He shot each 10-part series in just 73 days – roughly one instalment per week. That’s a decent clip when churning out a 20-minute sitcom. But to produce gorgeous prestige TV in that time-frame was remarkable. The Knick, which was shot on location in New York, looked incredible. While clearly set in the past, there’s something grippingly vivid and urgent about it. It’s the very opposite of starched, stagey period telly such as Downton Abbey and HBO’s own Boardwalk Empire.
That’s because Soderbergh filmed in natural light as far as possible. He was able to do so thanks to cutting-edge RED digital cameras, equipped with new “Dragon” sensors designed to work in low levels of light. Even when it was grim and gloomy outside, he could shoot using natural light. “Every once in a while, an actor would walk onto the set and say, “Are you guys bringing any light in?’” Soderbergh told Fast Company in 2014. “And we’d go, 'No, that’s it'.”This produced the occasional strange side-effect. Looking back over footage, for instance, Soderbergh would suddenly sense something amiss. He’d freeze the frame and zoom in. And there it was: because of the fading light, the actors’ pupils were massively dilated.
Bravura directing was accompanied by powerhouse acting from Owen. As far back as his break-out 1990s hit Croupier, he was always a coiled spring when on screen. All that repressed tension spewed to the surface in his portrayal of Thackery, a brilliant man wrestling perpetually with demons. “It was very, very challenging and very, very demanding, and Steven [is] really fast and very concentrated,” Owen said in a 2014 interview with Indiewire. “We did the 10 hours in just over 70 days, or seven days an episode. There’s some incredibly difficult technical stuff there. All the operation stuff that’s logistically very difficult… Sometimes we’d shoot up to 13 or 14 pages a day."And yet, Soderbergh was supposed to have retired when he made The Knick. In 2012 the director of Out of Sight and Ocean’s Eleven had publicly stepped away from filmmaking. A few months later, he received a pilot script by comedy writers Amiel and Begler. His ambition at the time was to become a painter – a mission he expected to occupy all his free time over the next several years. “I was aware that the 10,000 hours required to become just good would take years of steady, applied focus,” he said. “I was basically ready to do that. I was taking painting lessons from [naturalistic wildlife artist] Walton Ford and having a great time learning things, talking to him and watching him work.”
When he read the screenplay for The Knick, and was riveted from the opening page. “I was the first person to get ahold of the script for The Knick and I just couldn’t let that pass through my fingers. It’s about everything I’m interested in. Everything. I was the first person to see it. And I thought, 'I have to do this'.”
Amiel and Begler had knocked around the industry writing disposable chuckle-fests such as the 2004 Kate Hudson vehicle Raising Helen. The idea for The Knick came when Begler had a turn of poor health. “I was having medical issues. I was researching alternative medicine, and was also frustrated,” he recalled to Indiewire in 2010. “I was thinking: What were my options 100 years ago? I can go online and find out so much different information now. Too much, even.
“But what do you do in 1900? On a whim, Jack and I just bought a couple of medical textbooks from eBay. We opened them and it was just incredible. And yes, it was a horror show. I couldn’t believe the things I was reading: people drinking turpentine to help a perforated intestine.
“My jaw hit the ground. The further we dove into this world, the more crazy s--- we saw. There was too much good stuff here. Once we saw that it was about medicine, then we started to look at what the world of 1900 was like. The world was changing so fast, with so much to play with.”
That “crazy s---” was searingly translated to the screen. The Knick is striking in that it’s set in a world only a few steps removed from ours. Thackery and his colleagues are recognisably modern doctors, not medieval quacks or shamans. Yet their practices also feel like butchery by another name. As antiseptically filmed by Soderbergh, The Knick often has the unflinching quality of an avant-garde horror film.
Thackery injecting cocaine into his genitals (all his other veins having collapsed) and performing a bowel operation using “a revolutionary clamp of his own design” are, for instance, among the highlights of the pilot. Episode four, meanwhile, sees the good doctor trying to save a woman from a botched self-administered abortion. The three-minute sequence contains more gore than all the Saw movies laid end-to-end.
The Knick finished in bravura fashion, too. As season two came to a conclusion, it was unclear if it would be renewed. So Soderbergh gave Thackery a wonderfully ambivalent send off. He recklessly attempts surgery on himself – without an anaesthetic – only for the experiment to go awry. There are a lot of entrails and lots of blood.
“My peripheral vision seems to be going… body temperature has begun to drop,” he says. “This is it… this is all we are.” And then his life flashes before him. Has the most brilliant surgeon of his era expired on his own operating table?
Soderbergh later revealed the plan was to kill off the character and that a third season of The Knick would have time-jumped to the 1940s (he wanted to film it in black-and-white). But Thack laid on his back was the perfect fade to grey. The Knick had finished as it started: with the haunting quality of a fever dream from which you didn’t want to wake.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/typhoid-mary-birth-contact-tracing-seen-knick/
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Summer TV: The 30 Most Exciting New Shows
This summer, the chicest brand-new sunblock on world markets is a Netflix subscription. Of course, there are necessary accoutrements to the UV ray-shielding regimen: an Amazon subscription, Hulu account, YouTube premium access, a full cable bundle, a DVR, and enough hours in the day to maintain them all.
With the idea of a traditional fall-to-spring Tv season so 2013, there are more TV streak than ever striving for your attention during the summer months.
In addition to returning favourites like GLOW , Queen Sugar , Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt , em> Younger , The Affair , and more, there are dozens of brand-new series wooing you back inside to the air mode bliss of your lounge. We’ve cross-examine them all: a Ryan Murphy dance musical with an historical LGBTQ cast, a Stephen King multiverse, Amy Adams’ TV debut,’ 90 s Nickelodeon nostalgia, John Krasinski’s take over Jack Ryan, and more.
Here, we’ve culled the 30 proves most worth your attention.
Reverie ( NBC ) strong>
May 30 at 10 p.m. ET
Summer TV begins with a fright narration for technology skeptics. Sarah Shahi plays a onetime hostage researcher banked to extricate people whose subconscious are trapped inside a intelligent virtual reality program. Bonus: Between this sequence and the word’s constant be utilized in Westworld , we may actually come out of Summer 2018 knowing what “reverie” means.
C.B. Strike ( Cinemax ) strong>
June 1 at 10 p.m. ET
It was only a matter of time, but it’s finally here: television broadcasting adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s favourite books! Well , not those diaries. The supernatural whimsy of Hogwarts is swapped for the mental excites of Rowling’s series of detective tales, penned under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. This TV adaptation once aired in the U.K ., performing Tom Burke as a battle veteran second-lifeing it as a private investigator break lawsuits that have baffled police.
Pose ( FX ) strong>
June 3 at 9 p. m. ET
There’s a Whitney Houston music cue at the end in the first escapade of Pose that will have you out of your set, forgiving the nearly hour-and-a-half it took to get there.( Hour-long dramas apparently now merely view that first part as a suggestion .) All of that, of course, is hallmark Ryan Murphy, who is uttering record with this succession about life in’ 80 s New York City set against the backdrop of ballroom culture, the transgender parish, and, yes, Trumpian excess. Boasting the largest LGBTQ cast ever made, including breakout recitals by transgender leading performers, you’ll start voguing as you wait for the next episode.
Succession ( HBO ) strong>
June 3 at 10 p.m. ET
We’re not saying Succession , in which a world media mogul’s children jockey for superpower and oversight matters of a massive corporation, is modeled after the Murdochs. But we’re not saying it’s not, either. The truth is it’s not hard to activity any number of strong families onto this show–the Trumps, anyone ?– which imbues an Empire -like Shakespearean vibe into the world of the power-suit wearing. 0001 percent.
Dietland ( AMC ) strong>
June 4 at 9 p. m. ET
Plum Kettle( played by Joy Nash) is saving up for weight-loss surgery while phantom writing letters from the editor on behalf of a popular women’s magazine’s HBIC, Kitty Montgomery( Julianna Margulies, doing colours of Miranda Priestly ). Everyone is slightly distracted, however, by the flock of men who retain disappearing and getting killed, all of whom happen to be accused sexual harassers. Timely enough for you?
Condor ( AT& T/ DirecTV ) strong>
June 6
There are many rationales to be intrigued by Condor . em> It’s adapted from the 1975 Sydney Pollack film Three Days of the Condor and the book it was based on, some of the most fascinating, mind-banging political thriller generator cloth here i am.( A CIA employee tops to lunch and returns to see his entire agency has been killed .) But, folks, this co-stars Mira Sorvino, a beacon of the #MeToo movement and a awesome actress whose occupation was derailed by the Monster Weinstein, a comeback we should all be heartening for.
Impulse ( YouTube Red ) strong>
June 6
Proof that top aptitude is spread all over the million or so different material pulpits, this line for YouTube’s premium service comes from Doug Liman, whose action-thriller pedigree includes launching the Bourne dealership and targeting movies like Mr.& Mrs. Smith and The Edge of Tomorrow . Tackling teleportation and sex crime, Impulse might sound like 2018 TV-development Mad Libs, but it’s based on the same volume streak that caused his 2008 film Jumper . em> Liman has announced Jumper the film he’s least pleased with, suggesting that he’s on a operation here for a solid re-do.
American Woman ( Paramount ) strong>
June 7 at 10 p.m. ET
It was only a matter of time before one of Bravo’s Real Housewives heading toward cachet TV. Beverly Hills Housewife Kyle Richards is co-executive producer of this period dramedy loosely based on her childhood, growing up with a single mama, giving full play to Alicia Silverstone, in California at the increases of second-wave feminism in the’ 70 s. The manner! The theme song by Kelly Clarkson! Cher Horowitz fills Real Housewives ! What would her tagline be?” You can reverberate the buzzer in my bottom .” Too much?
Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger ( Freeform ) strong>
June 7 at 8 p. m. ET
The only thoughts specific in life are fatality and taxes and, at any point in time, there is a new Marvel series debuting. This one is the first for Freeform, the teen-skewing system known for shows like Pretty Little Liars and Grown-ish . That’s an plotting vibe to lend the omnipresent superhero genre. This one centers on two teenages who discover that they have superpowers and that they’re in love. Hormones, every young hero’s kryptonite.
The Staircase ( Netflix ) strong>
June 8
The” Netflix True-Crime Docuseries That Will Simultaneously Disturb the Entire Nation for a Season” is its own bungalow industry by now, coming its summertime installment with The Staircase . This one is a super-mash-up, of sorts. Examining the case of crime novelist Mike Patterson, who was convicted of killing his wife, The Staircase firstly aired in 2004, and then was updated with a miniseries in 2013. This explanation compounds everything there is and adds three additional bouts with brand-new shows, a total of 13 installments for you to binge.
Strange Angel ( CBS All Access ) strong>
June 14
With The Good Fight em> and Star Trek: Discovery as its founding records, CBS All Access previously boasts a nice stellar track record when it comes to original digital material. Its next offering is Strange Angel , a sci-fi series on the basis of the story by George Pendle and boasting perhaps the greatest tagline of any tv series ever:” Sex. Magick. Rocket Science .”
Breaking Big ( PBS ) strong>
June 15 at 8: 30 p.m. ET
” How did they get notorious ?” has been done before. The 2018 question is,” How did they get influential ?” PBS’ interrogation line will plot the unconventional directions some of the most conspicuous artistic chairmen took to get where they are today, including occurrences on Trevor Noah, Eddie Huang, Gretchen Carlson, San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, and SoulCycle co-founder Ruth Zukerman.
Deep State ( Epix ) strong>
June 17 at 9 p. m. ET
TV development execs have never met a government conspiracy thriller they didn’t like. This one from Epix superstars the ever-menacing Mark Strong as a former spy banked by an ex-MI6 operator to affiliate his new covert uniting espionage arrangement, The Division. Observes on sleuths on spies.
The Proposal em >( ABC ) strong>
June 18 at 10 p.m. ET
In what sounds like a demented mash-up of Blind Date and The Bachelor — and therefore perhaps the crowning accomplishment in summer reality TV guilty pleasure–each chapter of The Proposal will see contestants playing for the attention of the members of a suitor or “suitress” whose identity is camouflaged. Merely when the committee is two helpless nostalgics remaining will the suitor be uncovered and the finalists have the chance to propose marriage. And you thought Tinder was stressful.
Yellowstone ( Paramount ) strong>
June 20 at 9 p. m. ET
After winning an Emmy for his rendition in the miniseries Hatfields& McCoys , Kevin Costner is back on a pony and in a cowboy hat for Yellowstone , his first regular TV line role. While movie stars heading to Tv is still being newsworthy, it’s the movie ability behind the camera that has us intrigued. Tyler Sheridan, who wrote Hell or High Water , Wind River , and Sicario writes and targets this streak, about the unexpectedly high-stake strivings facing a modern-day rancher.
Take Two ( ABC ) strong>
June 21 at 10 p.m. ET
The new crime drama from the team behind Castle em> bangs unusually Castle- y, made all the more amusing by the fact that effortlessly charming The O.C . em> alum Rachel Bilson is standing in for aggressively charisma Nathan Fillion in the lead: the onetime superstar of a TV patrolman show shadowing a detective to experiment a capacity that she hopes will be her big comeback.
Double Dare ( Nickelodeon ) strong>
June 25 at 8 p. m. ET
Millennial nostalgia is a strong, witchy circumstance, this time imparting back from the dead the madcap Nickelodeon teenagers’ game show Double Dare, which married trivia, goo, and a human hamster motor for a stunt been demonstrated that, god help us all, recently celebrated its 30 th remembrance. While YouTube star Liza Koshy will host, O.G. emcee Marc Summers will be back to support pigment note, thus forestalling off a riot mob of thirtysomethings.
A Very English Scandal em >( Amazon ) strong>
June 29
A Very English Scandal would be irresistibly stimulating even if it wasn’t based on a real-life tabloid brouhaha, albeit one that American audiences are likely unfamiliar with. In Britain in the 1970 s, MP Jeremy Thorpe has a secret affair with a younger gay mortal worded Norman Scott, which he is frantic to keep secret as his political career makes off. When Scott is found dead, Thorpe stands ordeal for his murder. As for the Very English Molding: Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw play the doomed lovers.
Sharp Objects ( HBO ) strong>
July 8 at 9 p. m. ET
* WHEE-OO WHEE-OO*( That’s a 911 -emergency alarm bell, if you couldn’t tell .) Amy Adams is starring in a HBO prestige drama thriller! I reiterate, Amy Adams is starring in a HBO prestige thriller! Make your mind lozenges, because it merely gets better from there. The line is accommodated from the hit record by Gillian Flynn, who wrote Gone Girl ( know where it is ?). Buffy , Mad Men , and UnREAL vet Marti Noxon, too hectic the summer months with Dietland , is creator and showrunner. Patricia Clarkson and Elizabeth Perkins round out the casting. Get thee to a ventilator.
Heathers ( Paramount ) strong>
July 10 at 10 p.m. ET
Rebooting and renovating studies that are considered generational canon can run the gamut from invigorated to blasphemous, and the jury is still out on where this Heathers streak falls on that spectrum. The high school dark humor snaps the script by making one of the Heathers genderqueer, portrayed by male actor Brendan Scannell. But the series’ pilot, which is now being make them accessible the beginning of this year, was blared for a lack of subtlety and sensibility that territory on, as The Daily Beast’s Samantha Allen wrote, a” LGBT-bashing ordeal .”
The Outpost ( The CW ) strong>
July 10 at 8 p. m. ET
The logline for The Outpost is so CW-evocative and high-concept that it is able to tell us it describes The 100 or The Tomorrow People or The Secret Circle em> or The Messengers of The[ Fill in the Blank ] em> rebooted, and we’d believe you. That said, those depicts are all enjoyable! This one is about the lone survivor of an entire hasten who discovers superhuman superpowers while learning how to stay alive. Sure!
Burden of Truth ( The CW ) strong>
July 11 at 8 p. m. ET
Some Smallville actresses become high-ranking recruiters for a infamous fornication faith. Others graduate to topline The CW’s version of Erin Brockovich . In Burden of Truth , Kreuk plays a big-city lawyer who returns to her hometown to make the case of groupings of girls who are all suffering from a inscrutable illness. By the end of the season, we hope she gets justice, and that we stop instinctively typing Burden of Proof instead of Truth . em>
Castle Rock ( Hulu ) strong>
July 25
Castle Rock is the mysterious Maine town where many of Stephen King’s storeys are set. Castle Rock is a new anthology sequence from J.J. Abrams that realizes a Stephen King multiverse of sorts, where people and storylines from across the author’s works, including Cujo , The Dark Half , and The Dead Zone , will meet in an original narrative stellar Sissy Spacek, Andre Holland, and It ‘ s Bill Skarsgard. This is exciting, geeks!
Stirring It ( NBC ) strong>
July 31 at 10 p.m. ET
Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman are co-hosting a crafting streak, be still my twee middle. It’s as if The Great British Baking Show took a pit stop in Pawnee, with the Parks and Recreation performs hiring gobs of find, cement, and wry laughter for a competition sequence that has entrants fad handmade goods. Poehler’s self-described crafting naivete and Offerman’s legendary woodworking talents will inform their succour, guidance, and narration.
Disenchantment ( Netflix ) strong>
Aug. 17
In Dreamland , an alcoholic princess reputation Bean and her spunky elf companion identified Elfo navigate giants, sprites, harpies, gremlins, trolls, and Bean’s personal demon, Luci, on a series of misadventures. The animated line comes from Simpsons lore Matt Groening, and, be talking about demented sovereign pedigree, boasts Broad City ‘ s Abbi Jacobson preceding the singer cast. Yaaas queen. Err, princess.
The Innocents ( Netflix ) strong>
Aug. 24
” Romeo and Juliet, but they’re shapeshifters .” Who knows if that was the actual pitch for The Innocents , in which star-crossed teenage lovers Harry and June run away from their families only to discover that June has the power to shapeshift.( You think you know person .) It’s a superhuman have entered into Netflix’s exploding young adult opening, on the ends of another watercooler season of breakout punched 13 Reason Why.
Jack Ryan ( Amazon ) strong>
Aug. 31
Are you among those irate that, for all his brilliant directing and acting in A Quiet Place , John Krasinski dedicated the cinematic sin of saving his damn shirt on the whole time? He Who Was Jim Halpert, famously buff since leaving Dunder Mifflin, ascends to activity hero status to take the wand as Jack Ryan in Amazon’s spin on the Tom Clancy series. Krasinski’s biceps have large-scale sleeves to fill, following Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, and Ben Affleck in the persona.
Lodge 49 ( AMC ) strong>
August 2018
The network that brought you the offspring ennui of Don Draper, the tortured moral tension of Walter White, and all those zombies acquaints its new complicated leading man: a surfer buster? Lodge 49 is a new tonal attitude for the network, performing Wyatt Russell as well-meaning but rudderless former surfer–a” charming loser ,” as the network’s director of programming describes–who moves into a frat lodge in Long Beach after the deaths among his father, is expecting to get his life on track, but finding it unusually derailed by his new support system.
All About the Washingtons ( Netflix ) strong>
Summer 2018
Run-DMC’s Rev. Run( aka Joey Simmons) sets up his own explanation of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with this lightly autobiographical sitcom in which Simmons and his wife, Justine, frisk fictionalized versions of themselves conjuring their own families of four babies.
Insatiable ( Netflix ) strong>
Summer 2018
The logline for Insatiable predicts,” A disgraced, dissatisfied civil lawyer-turned-beauty pageant tutor( Dallas Roberts) takes on a vengeful, bullied adolescent Patty( Debby Ryan) as his client, and has no idea what he’s about to unleash upon countries around the world .” We have no plan either, as Netflix hasn’t released much more information than that. But it’s procreated Lauren Gussis, an alum from Dexter , so consider us intrigued by how that sensibility translates to the teen charm pageant nature.
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TV Shows Renewals (2018 - 2019)
Network
“48 Hours” (CBS) “60 Minutes” (CBS) “The 100” (The CW) “9-1-1” (FOX) “The $100,000 Pyramid” (ABC) “The Amazing Race” (CBS) “American Housewife” (ABC) “American Idol” (ABC) “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (ABC) “America’s Got Talent” (NBC) “AP Bio” (NBC) “Arrow” (The CW) “The Bachelor” (ABC) “The Big Bang Theory” (CBS) “Big Brother” (CBS) “Black-ish” (ABC) “Black Lightning” (The CW) “The Blacklist” (NBC) “Blindspot” (NBC) “Blue Bloods” (CBS) “Bob’s Burgers” “Bull” (CBS) “Celebrity Family Feud” (ABC) “Chicago Fire” (NBC) “Chicago Med” (NBC) “Chicago PD” (NBC) “Child Support” (ABC) “Cosmos” (FOX/Nat Geo) – last aired in 2014 “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (The CW) “Criminal Minds” (CBS) “Dancing With the Stars” (ABC) “Days of Our Lives” (NBC) “Dynasty” (The CW) “Elementary” (CBS) “Ellen’s Game of Games” (NBC) “Empire” (FOX) “Family Guy” (FOX) “The Flash” (The CW) “For the People” (ABC) “The Four: Battle for Stardom” (FOX) “Fresh Off the Boat” (ABC) “The Gifted” (FOX) “The Goldbergs” (ABC) “The Gong Show” (ABC) “The Good Doctor” (ABC) “Good Girls” (NBC) “The Good Place” (NBC) “Gotham” (FOX) “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC) “Hawaii Five-0” (CBS) “Hell’s Kitchen” (FOX) “Hollywood Game Night” (NBC) “How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC) “Instinct” (CBS) “iZombie” (ABC) “Jane the Virgin” (The CW) “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC) “Legends of Tomorrow” (The CW) “Lethal Weapon” (FOX) “Life in Pieces” (CBS) “Live with Kelly and Ryan” (Syndicated) – through 2019-20 “MacGyver” (CBS) “Madam Secretary” (CBS) “Man with a Plan” (CBS) “Masters of Illusion” (The CW) “Match Game” (ABC) “Midnight, Texas” (NBC) “Modern Family” (ABC) “Mom” (CBS) “NCIS” (CBS) “NCIS: Los Angeles” (CBS) “NCIS: New Orleans” (CBS) “The Orville” (FOX) “Page Six” (Syndicated) “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” (The CW) “The Price Is Right” (CBS) “The Real” (Syndicated) – through 2020 “The Resident” (FOX) “Riverdale” (The CW) “Roseanne” (ABC) “Salvation” (CBS) “SEAL Team” (CBS) “The Simpsons” (FOX) “So You Think You Can Dance” (FOX) – airs summer 2018 “Speechless” (ABC) “Star” (FOX) “Station 19” (ABC) “Steve” (Syndicated) “Supergirl” (The CW) “Supernatural” (The CW) “Superstore” (NBC) “Survivor” (CBS) “SWAT” (CBS) “This Is Us” (NBC) “Victoria” (PBS) “The Voice” (NBC) “The Wall” (NBC) “The Wendy Williams Show” (Syndicated) – through 2019-20 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” (The CW) “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” (Syndicated) “Will & Grace” (NBC) – through 2019-20 “The Young and the Restless” (CBS) – through 2019-20 “Young Sheldon” (CBS)
Cable and Streaming
“A Series of Unfortunate Events” (Netflix) – through Season 3 “Alexa & Katie” (Netflix) “Alone Together” (Freeform) “American Dad” (TBS) – through Season 6 on TBS/16 overall “American Horror Story” (FX) – through Season 9 “American Vandal” (Netflix) “Andi Mack” (Disney) “Angie Tribeca” (TBS) “Animal Kingdom” (TNT) “Archer” (FXX) “At Home with Amy Sedaris” (truTV) “Ballers” (HBO) “Barry” (HBO) “Berlin Station” (Epix) “Better Things” (FX) “Big Mouth” (Netflix) “Billions” (Showtime) “Black Mirror” (Netflix) “Bosch” (Amazon) “Broad City” (Comedy Central) “Brockmire” (IFC) – through Season 4 “Carpool Karaoke” (Apple) “Casual” (Hulu) – fourth and final season in 2018 “Channel Zero” (Syfy) – through Season 4 “Chesapeake Shores” (Hallmark) “The Chi” (Showtime) “Chrisley Knows Best” (USA) “Cobra Kai” (YouTube Red) “Corporate” (Comedy Central) “Counterpart” (Starz) “Crashing” (HBO) “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO) “Dark” (Netflix) “The Detour” (TBS) “Doc McStuffins” (Disney Junior) “Documentary Now!” (IFC) “Dope” (Netflix) “Drop the Mic” (TBS) “Drug Lords” (Netflix) “Drunk History” (Comedy Central) “Fear the Walking Dead” (AMC) “Final Space” (TBS) “Fleabag” (Amazon) “Floribama Shore” (MTV) “Full Frontal with Samatha Bee” (TBS) – through 2020 “Fuller House” (Netflix) “Future Man” (Hulu) “The Good Fight” (CBS All Access) “Grace and Frankie” (Netflix) “Grown-ish” (Freeform) “The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu) “Happy!” (Syfy) “High Maintenance” (HBO) “Homeland” (Showtime) “House of Cards” (Netflix) “I Love You, America” (Hulu) “Ink Master” (Paramount) “Insecure” (HBO) “Jack Ryan” (Amazon) “Jessica Jones” (Netflix) “The Jim Jefferies Show” (Comedy Central) “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” (E!) – through 2020 “Killing Eve” (BBC America) “Killjoys” (Syfy) – through Season 5 “The Last O.G.” (TBS) “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO) – through Season 7 in 2020 “Lore” (Amazon) “Loudermilk” (Audience Network) “The Magicians” (Syfy) “Man at Arms: Art of War” (El Rey) “Mindhunter” (Netflix) “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return” (Netflix) “Nailed It!” (Netflix) “Narcos” (Netflix) “No Activity” (CBS All Access) “The Oath” (Crackle) “On My Block” (Netflix) “One Day at a Time” (Netflix) “Orange Is the New Black” (Netflix) – through Season 7 “Outlander” (Starz) – through Season 6 “Power” (Starz) – through Season 6 “Preacher” (AMC) “Project Runway” (Lifetime) – through Season 18 “Project Runway All Stars” (Lifetime) – through Season 7 “The Punisher” (Netflix) “Pure” (WGN America) “Queen Sugar” (OWN) “Queer Eye” (Netflix) “Ray Donovan” (Showtime) “Real Time with Bill Maher” (HBO) – through 2020 “Rick and Morty” (Adult Swim) – for 70 episodes “Runaways” (Hulu) “Santa Clarita Diet” (Netflix) “Search Party” (TBS) “Shameless” (Showtime) “She’s Gotta Have It” (Netflix) “Shooter” (USA) “Silicon Valley” (HBO) “The Sinner” (USA) “SMILF” (Showtime) “Snoop Dogg Presents The Joker’s Wild” (TBS) “South Park” (Comedy Central) – through 2019 “Star Trek: Discovery��� (CBS All Access) “Startup” (Crackle) “The Story of God with Morgan Freeman” (Nat Geo) “Stranger Things” (Netflix) “Strike Back” (Cinemax) “Suits” (USA) “The Tick” (Amazon) “Tosh.0” (Comedy Central) – through 2020 “The Toys That Made Us” (Netflix) “Transparent” (Amazon) “UnReal” (Lifetime) – through Season 4 “Van Helsing” (Syfy) “The Walking Dead” (AMC) “Watch What Happens Live” (Bravo) – through 2020 “Westworld” (HBO) “Younger” (TV Land) “You’re the Worst” (FXX) – final season in 2018 “The Zimmern List” (Travel)
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