I loved the book series by Cornwell. Will be interesting to see how it’s interpreted into a series.
With that in mind I should check out The Last Kingdom since that is also a Cornwell series that has been turned into a TV Series.
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The Last Kingdom is excellent. And fairly faithful to the Cornwell stories. All five seasons are on Netflix together with the Seven Kings Must Die movie. Seriously binge worthy for a few weekends. But definitely only during “Adult TV Time”.
The IMDB Parents Guide for Violence/Gore lists it as: Severe - Each season gets progressively more gruesome with the actual acts of violence being seen onscreen more often rather than being quickly cut away. This is very noticeable from especially Season 3 when it moved to Netflix from the BBC.
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The Other Black Girl
Hulu | 13 September | Season 1 | 10 Episodes
Nella, an editorial assistant, is often marginalized as the only black girl at her company, so she’s excited when Hazel is hired. As Hazel begins to rise, Nella discovers something sinister is going on at the company.
From executive producer Rashida Jones comes the new series, The Other Black Girl. Based on the New York Times bestseller by Zakiya Dalila Harris. Streaming Sept 13 on Hulu.
All 10 episodes are scheduled to release on 13 September.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Teaser)
Disney+ | 20 December | Season 1 | 8 Episodes
Percy Jackson & The Olympians tells the fantastical story of a 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson, who’s just coming to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. Now Percy must trek across America to find it and restore order to Olympus.
Demigod Percy Jackson leads a quest across America to prevent a war among the Olympian gods.
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Still Up
Apple TV+ | 22 September
Still Up—a new comedy series about two people who are not sleeping together (or at all)—premieres September 22 on Apple TV+
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Who is Erin Carter?
Netflix | 24 August | Limited Series | 7 Episodes
Meet Erin - Mum, Wife, Teacher living the expat dream in Spain. Or so we think until a robbery in a supermarket reveals her to be a badass fighter! Erin is clearly not who she says she is but how far will she go to keep her true identity at bay?
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Life On Our Planet
Netflix | 2023 | Limited Series (?) | 8 Episodes
Life’s epic battle to conquer and survive on planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet, yet what we see is just a snapshot in time 99% of earth’s inhabitants are lost to our deep past. The story of what happened to these dynasties their rise and their fall is truly remarkable.
To understand life we must go back to the beginning. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, from executive producer Steven Spielberg and the Emmy Award-winning team behind Our Planet, this is the story of Life on Our Planet.
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Wilderness
Prime Video | 15 September | Mini-Series | 6 Episodes
Liv becomes the actress starring in Will’s bad dreams after she learns about his betrayal, and her heartbreak is swiftly followed by another emotion: fury. The couple embark on an American road trip Liv’s fantasized about since she was little, from the Grand Canyon on through Yosemite, before ending up with a hedonistic weekend in Las Vegas. For Will, it’s a chance to make amends; for Liv, it’s a very different prospect—a landscape where accidents happen all the time. The perfect place to get revenge.
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Bodies
Netflix | 19 October | Limited Series | 8 Episodes
Four detectives, living in four different eras, find the body of the same murder victim in London’s Whitechapel. They soon come to realise their investigations have them central to a mysterious conspiracy spanning over a 150 years.
This looks interesting.
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I started watching One Piece. It is super quirky but also a lot of fun!
What I did not know is that the show was shot in good old R of SA! I had my suspicions during the first episode, then felt stronger during the early credits with van der Merwes, Coetzees and Nkosis on the crew. And then the confirmation came with the SA stamp of cooperation at the very end.
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It’s amusing hearing all the “trying hard to hide it” South African accents.
The Gold
Paramount+ | 14 September | Mini-Series | 6 Episodes
They were looking for £1 million. They found £26 million. Inspired by the biggest gold heist in Britain’s history, The Gold tells the story of the 1983 Brink’s Mat robbery that kicked off decades of investigation, corruption, arrests, and murder as the police tried to identify the criminals and recover the gold.
Frasier
Paramount+ | 12 October | Season 01 | 10 Episodes
Frasier is off to a different city with new challenges to face, new relationships to forge, and an old dream or two to finally fulfill. Frasier has re-entered the building.
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I thought he went over to the dark side.
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Seen that a while ago. It’s a brilliant edit, and actually had me convinced that Dark Side Frasier is something I’d definitely have no problem watching.
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Who Killed Jill Dando
Netflix | 26 September | 3-Part Mini Series
British broadcasting legend, Jill Dando, was killed by a single bullet on her doorstep in 1999 in broad daylight. Despite one of the biggest homicide investigations in British history, the murder remains unsolved. This three-part series takes viewers through the twists and the turns of a true crime mystery as her family, friends, journalists, investigators and lawyers wrestle with the question: Who Killed Jill Dando?
@Wyvern, something for you and your mum?
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Lessons in Chemistry
Apple TV+ | 13 October | Season 1 | 8 Episodes
Set in the early 1960s, Elizabeth Zott’s dream of being a chemist is put on hold when she finds herself pregnant, alone, and fired from her lab.
In the 1950s, a woman’s dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong only in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives’ way more than recipes.
I’d take cooking lessons from Brie Larson any time!
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A Murder at the End of the World
Hulu | 14 November | Limited Series | 6 Episodes
A Murder at the End of the World is a mystery series featuring a Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker “Darby Hart.” Darby and eight other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use her skills to prove it was murder before the killer takes another life.
A little Clive Owen cameo there. Also, Iceland looks like an utterly amazing place to visit - those landscapes… 
Double also, use a Depeche Mode track (even a cover version) in the trailer soundtrack and I’m sold.
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Apple TV+ | 17 November | Season 1 | 10 Episodes
Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco, and the shocking revelation that monsters are real, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch.
Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army Officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows.
Based on the Monsterverse from Legendary, and starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett and Elisa Lasowski, this dramatic saga — spanning three generations — reveals buried secrets and the ways that epic, earth-shattering events can reverberate through our lives.
Big screen monster action on the small screen? Will it work? Interesting to see father and son Russells play the same character in two different timelines.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Netflix | 12 October | Limited Series | 8 Episodes
She’s coming for them all. In this wicked series from Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) and based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.
I think it’s amazing that over 180 years after it was first published we’re still able to find new ways to tell Poe’s story. That’s a literal literary legacy.
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