The Official TV & TV Series Thread

House of the Dragon

Max | 9 June | Season 2 | 10 Episodes

An internal succession war within House Targaryen at the height of its power, 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen.

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The Umbrella Academy

Netflix | 8 August | Season 4 (Final) | 6 Episodes

It’s the final timeline. A family of former child heroes, now grown apart, must reunite to continue to protect the world.

The series is based on a collection of comics and graphic novels created and written by My Chemical Romance lead singer Gerard Way.

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Sunny

Apple TV+ | 10 July | Season 1 | 10 Episodes

Sunny stars Rashida Jones as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company. Though at first, Suzie resents Sunny’s attempts to fill the void in her life, gradually they develop an unexpected friendship. Together they uncover the dark truth of what really happened to Suzie’s family and become dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie never knew existed.

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Those About to Die

Peacock | 18 July | Mini Series | 10 Episodes

Those About to Die is an epic drama set in the corrupt world of the spectacle-driven gladiatorial competition, exploring a side of ancient Rome never before told — the dirty business of entertaining the masses, giving the mob what they want most…blood and sport. The series introduces an ensemble of characters from all corners of the Roman Empire who collide at the explosive intersection of sports, politics, and dynasties.

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Does Apple ONLY make Sci-Fi shows? :wink:

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The Penguin

Max | September | Season 1 | 8 Episodes

Never underestimate him.

Following the events of “The Batman,” Oswald Cobblepot, a.k.a. The Penguin, makes a play to seize the reins of the crime world in Gotham.

The next chapter in #TheBatman saga from Matt Reeves. Academy Award nominee Colin Farrell is The Penguin in the new Max Original Series coming this September to Max.


The insane talents of the prosthetics and makeup artists! This is Colin Farrell underneath that Penguin exterior:

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I cannot find a proper Youtube, but this is an amazing transformation

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I remember when I first saw the Batman trailer I had no idea he was Penguin

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Time Bandits

Apple TV+ | 24 July | Season 1 | 10 Episodes

Eleven-year-old Kevin’s passion for history is put to the test when he joins a ragtag group of time-traveling thieves on a high-stakes and an adventure.

Bad Monkey

Apple TV+ | 14 August | Mini Series | 10 Episodes

Welcome to the shady side of paradise where Vince Vaughn has a long list of unusual suspects.

Based on Carl Hiaasen’s New York Times bestselling novel and enduring cult favorite, “Bad Monkey” tells the story of Andrew Yancy (Vaughn), who has been bounced from the Miami Police Department and is now a health inspector in the Keys. But after stumbling upon a case that begins with a human arm fished up by tourists, he realizes that if he can prove murder, he’ll be back in. He just needs to get past a trove of Floridian oddballs and one bad monkey.

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That looks like fun!

The Grand Tour: One For The Road

Prime Video | 13 September

One for the road! Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond & James May go on their final tour together after 8 years.

Join the trio for one last road trip as Jeremy Clarkson, James May & Richard Hammond take three cars they’ve always wanted to own on an emotional adventure through Zimbabwe. Watch The Grand Tour: One For The Road on the 13th of September on Prime Video.


The end of an era.

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LOL, are we all going to the same old folks home?

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Teacup

Peacock | 10 October | Mini Series | 8 Episodes

Teacup follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive. Inspired by the New York Times bestselling novel Stinger by Robert McCammon.

Trapped on a farm in rural Georgia, a group of neighbors must put aside their differences and unite in the face of a mysterious and deadly threat.


McCammon’s novel was published in the late 1980s. Interested to see how well a modern screen adaptation works. Stinger “takes place during a single twenty-four hour period in Inferno, Texas. Inferno is a town in trouble, driven to the brink by racial tension, gang violence, and a collapsing economy. But things can always get worse, and they do so with astonishing speed when an unidentified spacecraft crash lands in the desert outside of town, followed by a second craft bearing the alien being who will soon be known as Stinger. Stinger is a kind of interstellar hunter on a mission he intends to complete, whatever the cost.”

Disclaimer*

Apple TV+ | 11 October | Mini-Series | 7 Episodes

DISCLAIMER* is a gripping psychological thriller in seven chapters, starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, DISCLAIMER* is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.

As Catherine races to uncover the writer’s true identity, she is forced to confront her past before it destroys both her own life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee). The ensemble cast includes Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George, Hoyeon, and features Indira Varma as the narrator.

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Territory

Netflix | 24 October | Season 1 | 6 Episodes

When the world’s largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, generational clashes threaten to tear the Lawson family apart. Sensing this once great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions – rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners – move in for the kill.

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Soooooooo

Yellowstone in Oz?

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Fair dinkum, mate.

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