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Romantic comedies, Japanese reality television and New Zealand true crime: the best of streaming this September

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
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We have never been more spoilt for choice when it comes to what we can watch on (streaming) television.

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  • We have never been more spoilt for choice when it comes to what we can watch on (streaming) television.
  • But the downside of this gluttony of riches is the sheer overwhelm that can come from having to choose your next show.

Glamorous

    • Netflix Kim Cattrall showed considerable savvy when, rather than rejoin the cast of Sex and the City, she opted to play Madolyn Addison, the dynamic head of beauty brand Glamorous.
    • On the surface this is even frothier than Sex and the City, and some critics have panned it.
    • Glamorous is as camp as Barbie, but far cleverer and more subversive: without a spoiler, it’s worth comparing the way the two end.

Starstruck season three

    • Last season ended with a moment that was equal parts romantic and absurd, as Jessie and Tom reconcile and make out in a pond.
    • But the new season opens with a montage tracing the subsequent two years of moving in together and then drifting apart.
    • Starstruck understands what makes Jessie and Tom interesting to watch: not domestic bliss, but their awkward banter and difficulty overcoming their mismatched quirks, despite their obvious chemistry and attraction.

Far North

    • ThreeNow (New Zealand) and Paramount+ (Australia) The terrific new New Zealand dark comedy Far North dramatises a bizarre meth-smuggling case from 2016, in which a ridiculously inept gang nearly got half a ton of methamphetamine to market, only to be rumbled by the locals.
    • Impeccably shot, and featuring a wonderfully motley assortment of low-rent crims, desperate drug runners, cartel mobsters and salt-of-the-earth locals, Far North is easily one of the best (and funniest) New Zealand shows in years.

Mother and Son

    • ABC iView Mother and Son has long been regarded as one of Australia’s greatest sitcoms.
    • Read more:
      The Mother and Son reboot has fresh things to say about adult children and their ageing parents

      For anyone who has cared for an ageing parent – or faced the diminution of their autonomy as they have aged – Mother and Son still strikes a nerve.

    • In the 2023 Mother and Son, Maggie (Denise Scott) is a free-spirited eccentric who almost burned down the family home while cooking dinner for her grandchildren.

Ai no Sato (Love Village)

    • In the UK, the upcoming show My Mum, Your Dad (an Australian version aired in 2022) is being billed as “middle-aged Love Island”.
    • Ai no Sato, or Love Village, is a take on the stalwart Japanese reality dating format Ainori (Love Wagon).
    • In Ai no Sato, by contrast, contestants (all aged over 35) renovate a house in rural Japan together … and fall in love along the way.
    • I love Ainori, but Ai no Sato takes things to a new level.

Unforgotten season five

    • There are a lot of excellent series out there (Broadchurch, Happy Valley and Karen Pirie are all exceptional).
    • This is perhaps why it took me so long to give Unforgotten a go.
    • Each season begins with the discovery of a murder that the historical crimes unit must solve, led by DCI Cassie Stuart (the wonderful Nicola Walker) and DI Sunil Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar).
    • Season five sees the departure of Walker and new to the team is DCI Jessica James (Sinéad Keenan).

Beautiful Disaster

    • Prime If Beautiful Disaster, the new film from Cruel Intentions director Roger Kumble, had come out 20 years ago, no one would have paid it much attention.
    • However, streaming in 2023 – now the rom-com has disappeared as a mainstay of Hollywood cinema – there’s something refreshingly delightful about it.
    • At the same time, only sometimes effectively, Beautiful Disaster thinks through questions around erotic power dynamics in a post-#MeToo era, comically centring on the kind of guilt Abby feels regarding her attraction to Travis.

David Tennant to play Alexander Litvinenko in NENT Group and ITV original drama

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Thursday, September 30, 2021
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) and ITV have commissioned the four-part drama `Litvinenko', starring David Tennant (`Doctor Who'; `Broadchurch') as Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian Federal Security Services and KGB officer whose death in London from polonium poisoning triggered one of the most complex and dangerous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police. Written by acclaimed screenwriter George Kay (`Lupin'; `Criminal'), `Litvinenko' is the story of the determined Scotland Yard officers who worked for 10 years to prove who was responsible. In the Nordic region, Baltic region, Poland and the Netherlands, the series will premiere exclusively on NENT Group's Viaplay streaming service.

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  • In the Nordic region, Baltic region, Poland and the Netherlands, the series will premiere exclusively on NENT Group's Viaplay streaming service.
  • The drama will relate how two police officers were called to University College Hospital in London in November 2006 to interview a patient in declining health.
  • The patient was Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian dissident who claimed to have been poisoned on the direct orders of Vladimir Putin.
  • George Kay: "In late 2006, Alexander Litvinenko was a living witness to his own murder.

BYUtv Commissions Contemporary Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" from BBC Studios Productions

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Thursday, September 2, 2021
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Or that his family will face the full might of the English aristocracy: united in opposition to the parvenu Americans.

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  • Or that his family will face the full might of the English aristocracy: united in opposition to the parvenu Americans.
  • The stately homes of the aristocracy and a resident ghost
    "This is Oscar Wilde meets 'Downton Abbey,'" said Will Trotter, executive producer for BBC Studios Productions.
  • It is produced by BBC Studios Productions, written by Jude Tindall ("Father Brown," "Shakespeare & Hathaway") and executive produced by Will Trotter ("Father Brown," "Shakespeare & Hathaway," "Doctors").
  • The script producer is Neil Irvine, and the series producer for BBC Studios Productions is Sue Howells.

Pandemic Creates a Surge in the Self-Publishing Industry

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Gracepoint Publishing , the world's first Collaborative Publisher, will release four new book titles in the month of May and is preparing to release four more titles in June.

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  • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Gracepoint Publishing , the world's first Collaborative Publisher, will release four new book titles in the month of May and is preparing to release four more titles in June.
  • Gracepoint Publishing has seen a surge in people who have used the time of social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic to write and publish their own books.
  • "Suddenly they have the time to get it done," reports Vandepas who has not only seen an increase in publishing but also book sales.
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