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A NEW YEAR means new TV shows, whether you want to hunker down and watch them on TV, or plan on turning to Netflix or Amazon for your small screen needs.
One of the most exciting things is the anticipation when it comes to the shows: will they live up to the hype? Will there be some small shows that blast the rest out of the water?
To help you plan ahead, we’ve put together a guide to the highly-anticipated shows for the coming year. Have any you want to add? Why not tell us in the comments.
I know. I know. We thought it would never happen. Mulder and Scully (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) seemed destined to forever remain just figures on our old VHS tapes.
But they’re going to be returning to our screens after 14 years – Fox is bringing them back for six episodes, and we can expect new stories, alien abduction, and the Smoking Man. Here’s an interview with creator Chris Carter to set your mind at rest.
When does it air? 24 January in the US
After the critically lauded Jessica Jones and Daredevil comes the third in this Marvel four series deal with Netflix (it will be followed by a miniseries called The Defenders).
It stars Mike Colter as ex-con-turned-crimefighter Cage, a character inspired by Blaxploitation films who has superhuman strength and unbreakable skin. Seeing as critics loved Daredevil, and adored Jessica Jones, the bar is set very high here.
When’s it airing? This year on Netflix, but no exact date pinned down yet.
This is a US series, and the hope is that it’ll be available on Irish TV soon. Set in a near-future Los Angeles, it features a couple who live under a military occupation regime after extraterrestrials invade the USA. You’ll recognise former Lost star Josh Holloway. It’s co-written by Carlton Cuse, one of Lost’s writers.
When’s it airing? It premières in the US in January, but may be picked up here.
This originally aired as a web series back in 2014, and now is set for a TV run in 2016. It comes from the Comedy Central stable, which is also responsible for the Amy Schumer show and Broad City, which bodes very well for the series (plus, Comedy Central often puts clips of its shows on YouTube for you to watch).
This is also a female-centred comedy, created by Jillian Bell and Charlotte Newhouse, about a woman who gets a job babysitting for a ‘woman-child’ who’s under house-arrest.
When’s it airing? 14 January in the US.
This Amazon series is a remake of the Sky 1 show of the same name, and has one of its stars (Ben Chapman), alongside a baldy Billy Zane, Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), Steve Zahn and Romany Malco.
Here’s the blurb: “When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder.” Standard.
When’s it airing? 22 January on Amazon Prime. (Note: While you can’t get an Amazon Prime membership – yet – in Ireland, Amazon plans to bring out its series on DVD and Blu-Ray). The original UK series are available on Sky 1 on demand.
This Martin Scorcese and Mick Jagger-produced rock drama series is set in 1970s New York. We follow the likes of Bobby Cannavale (who plays record label president Richie Finestra), Olivia Wilde, Juno Temple and Ray Romano as they navigate the world of sex, drugs and rock n’roll.
HBO series have a decent record of making their way across the water (think The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City), so expect this to hit our screens at some point this year too. Fingers crossed.
When’s it airing? 14 February
This BBC drama is set in the world of newspapers, and is written by Doctor Foster writer Mike Bartlett. Expect some exposes of political corruption, and a pretty troubled newsroom. Nothing like us here at TheJournal.ie, then.
Interestingly, it’s set in today’s world, so we can anticipate some discussion of hacking and how to cope in the digital age (we can definitely fill them in on the latter).
When’s it airing? There will be six 60-minute episodes on BBC One, but the airing date hasn’t been confirmed yet.
This BBC Two drama was written by Irish playwright and director (I Went Down, Endgame) Conor McPherson and made by BBC NI Drama with Cuba Pictures. It’s about a woman and man “locked into a battle driven by vengeance” – a brief encounter that ends in violence.
When’s it airing? All the BBC say is ‘soon’.
This RTE drama takes place in the run-up to the Easter Rising in 1916. We got a sneak peek of what to expect, and found out that rather than concentrating on the main players in the rising, it looks at the lives of everyday men and women.
It begins with the outbreak of World War 1 and follows the cast as they play conflicting roles in the rebellion. It’s written by Colin Teevan, who penned Charlie, and stars Charlie Murphy (Love/Hate) and Brian Gleeson (he of the Gleeson clan) amongst others.
When’s it airing? The first episode in the five-part series airs on RTÉ One on Sunday 3 January.
The is the first post-watershed drama series about teenagers on Irish screens, and will air on TG4.
The Irish-language series (written by London-based Corkonian Mike O’Leary and produced by Ciara Nic Chormaic for Magamedia) is “about five young people in a one-horse town who decide to ride up against oppression and form an indie band”, its director Louise Ní Fhiannactha told us.
When’s it airing? 4 February on TG4
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Did I just read this..jasyus I did…I did need to get out more..but nobody has ever explained to me why Broccoli goes cold as soon as you cook it..I’ve never had hot Broccoli yet..
@sparky: Broccoli has a very high surface area per unit weight compared to other veg. This high surface area allows for higher rates of heat transfer to occur between the broccoli and the air. The stems of the broccoli are also a lot less dense than other vegetables too so heat transfer occurs more rapidly for that reason as well.
@sparky: always preheat your plate.
Another valuable scientific endeavour….
Thank God for religion, that’s all I can say.
Stephen Hawking must be glad he is still alive to read this. Good to know scientists have their prioritys right. Serious illnesses & research is not important if shoelaces become undone according to these scientists. This is an insult to scientists everywhere.
@Abcd: If you’d bother to actually read the article you’d see that it does have a serious side in preventing injury.
@Jack Cassady: Guess what Jack… turns out God didn’t do this either…
@Paddy Ryan: My shoelaces have not undone since i was about 6. We where taught too secure all footwear & loose clothing especially near any machinery.
@Abcd: move on to ‘é’ and the rest of the alphabet as soon as you can. Then complete your education, concentrating on logic, but not forgetting reading and comprehension. Then read this article once more. If you do not understand it differently the second time around, you are probably ineducable.
Jasus, this article had me in knots.
Double knot always works for me. Takes2 seconds longer to untie but worth it for one pair of athletic shoes with laces that untie within 10 minutes of tying the knot.
Bunny ears, bunny ears, playing by a tree. Criss-crossed the tree, trying to catch me. Bunny ears, Bunny ears, jumped into the hole, popped out the other side beautiful and bold.”
@Colleen McGovern: what you rabbitin’ on about, Willis?
“…unable to lift his foot off the gas…”
Enough of the Yankisms
Hahaha, yet you use an Americanism in your appeal to eschew a ‘Yankism’!
Enough with the Little Englander mentality. The world uses American English and in Ireland we use, increasingly, American spelling. You can color it whatever way you wish, but the English used in Ireland and in our neighboring island is moving toward the American standard.
Seriously
My guess is it’ll be a combination of vibration from the foot/shoe in normal thread action and the laces swinging. The result of both actions causing the knot to work itself loose.
@Paul Downes: My guess is its explained in the article.
Good on you journal. That’s a fine piece of copy and pasting from a piece of news that was reported on around the globe last week.
So, am I right in thinking a bunch of scientists have basically determined through scientific research that lases come undone because we/i don’t make a proper knot?? Out with lases in with velcro. I think we need a tribunal!
Ah lads, this was solved a long time ago. It’s to do with the direction in which you tie the knot. 3 min video on Ted Talks explains it.
Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes
http://go.ted.com/NQ2rKQ
I kid you knot!!!
Who the hell finds this kind of research ? The scouts ?
#Funds#
Jesus these lads are busy
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