As someone who grew up watching the OG High School Musical movie series – more times than you can count – I was skeptical when I first started watching High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Also, the title is a mouthful, which annoyed me. But the first season was actually pretty good, and it wasn’t a copy of the original, which was refreshing considering the amount of reboots/remakes we’ve gotten of late. After such a strong start, season 2 […]

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Typically the latest Star Wars spin-off would, by default, be this August’s biggest name going. It’s the world’s most beloved non-Vulcan sci-fi franchise, with the deranged runaway clout of Disney backing it up. The only thing that could possibly dethrone it is an adaptation of honest-to-God anime royalty – and a proper adaptation too, one with the original creator’s input and stamp of approval, not something farmed out to people who initially think they’re doing the life story of a […]

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Even after years of fawning over flavour-of-the-month celebrity guest stars, The Simpsons giving a guest spot to Elon Musk in 2015 seemed especially shameless. At least Musk was and is actually well-known enough they didn’t need to stop dead and introduce him by name, but it begs the question of what kind of backroom deal went down for this to happen – especially given that, since then, the show has given extensive product placement to Musk’s line of cars, and […]

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After the MCU Phase 4’s rocky performance, fans are hopeful for a better Phase 5. Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania was the first Phase 5 movie, but now it’s time for Marvel’s Disney+ shows to return. To start it all off, we’ll finally find out what Nick Fury’s been up to in Secret Invasion. Fury has been showing up in multiple cameos throughout Phase 4, teasing fans as to his whereabouts. His last major role was in Captain Marvel, where […]

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In true form of the long hot summer, July’s shows touch on people behaving very badly indeed – be this kidnapping, running cults, or even a cheeky bit of cannibalism. But curiously, for the most part, the people engaged in this misbehaviour aren’t the big hammy villains but rather our heroes, the people we’re meant to sympathise with. This isn’t some wacky new development, granted, but it strikes on a recurring theme of mine – that we’re frequently better able […]

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As if television itself is trying to quietly jet off for its summer holidays, June’s roster of shows encompass a real smorgasbord of far-flung, exotic destinations – such as Sheffield. Perhaps you, too, will find somewhere that looks like the holiday of a lifetime, although I must add the caveat up front, for one of them, they’re only pretending they’re on Mars. Here are the biggest new TV shows of June 2023.   New TV In June 2023 1. Deadloch […]

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American Born Chinese is an adaptation of the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang. The series aims to coalesce two narratives. The first involves Jin (Ben Wang), who just wants to be a normal kid in school, not the Asian kid. The second involves the Monkey King Sun Wukong (Daniel Wu) and his son Wei-Chen (Jim Liu), who has stolen his magical staff and gone to earth in pursuit of the fourth scroll. The Monkey King is also dealing with […]

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At one point in The Muppets Mayhem, a character says, “Look, being a super-fan just means you love something deep in your heart. To be honest, I don’t trust anyone who’s not a super-fan of something.” This is exactly what The Muppets Mayhem feels like: a show made for super-fans by super-fans. This show is a love letter to music, to The Muppets, and to chosen family. While it does stumble a lot during the first season’s last three episodes […]

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Extraordinary is a show that doesn’t try to be, well, extraordinary. Instead, it goes the exact opposite route, wanting to be relatable and identifiable with its target audience. Taking place in a world where everyone gets a superpower after they turn 18, the show follows a 25-year-old woman named Jen who doesn’t have a superpower yet, despite having waited 7 years. Not just that, but she’s single, lives in a house-share, hates her job, and constantly butts heads with her […]

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Body horror, police procedural, mysterious conspiracy, man on the run. Put them all together and you have Connect, the new six-part Korean drama streaming on Disney+. It’s an eclectic mish mash of genres and ideas. It makes for an intriguing watch even while all those elements don’t connect together that seamlessly. Connect wastes no time in both setting up its premise and giving viewers a taste of the gnarly violence they’ll be in for. In the opening moments of the […]

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Star Wars has a problem. It’s not the Empire or the First Order or even the course, rough substance that is sand. Star Wars has a problem with its creators trying to make – well, a Star Wars, rather than simply telling a good story in the Star Wars universe. Since so many creators grew up on Star Wars and are such big fans, when they get the opportunity to make something in the universe, they tend to make something […]

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In the slow crawl towards Christmas you expect TV to turn its eyes to your winter warmers, rather easily-paced productions that comfort without being overly taxing, full of the kind of plenty and tinsel which you will hopefully soon be enjoying too. This December does have that – but it also has ludicrous ultraviolence. So, you know, something for everyone, and it is the thought that counts after all. Here are the biggest new TV shows of December 2022.   […]

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There were times watching Limitless – Chris Hemsworth’s quest for a healthier, happier and crucially longer existence – when the blue-eyed Aussie A-lister started to take on an almost otherworldly form. Everywhere Hemsworth goes, be it when having conversations with doctors, hiking across The Outback or just chatting with his macho mates by the campfire, he carries an aura of distinct otherworldliness befitting a man who has spent the last decade playing a mighty Norse god. Tall, impossibly handsome and […]

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As somebody who, like so many others, has experience working in the hospitality sector, I initially viewed the promo materials for Christopher Storer’s acclaimed culinary comedy-drama The Bear with a degree of scepticism. What I gleaned from the posters was that this was another instance in the media’s long history of glorifying the destructive, self-indulgent behaviour of professional chefs, most of whom are portrayed as struggling artists whose vision and talent excuse the more distasteful and unsavoury aspects of their […]

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It’s less than three minutes into the first episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law before Jen Walters (Tatiana Maslany) turns to the camera and breaks the fourth wall between herself and the audience. She tells us that there’s a really “fun lawyer show” she wants to show us but we won’t be satisfied with that until we know what her origin story is. It’s a slightly confronting moment even when delivered from behind Maslany’s bright smile, that indicates that the […]

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