[Technology] Apple TV

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Baltimore-based writer Laura Lippman is getting the Apple TV+ treatment for her book, Lady In The Lake.

When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course. Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) is a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram Ingram) is a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family. Their disparate lives seem parallel at first, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mystifying death, a chasm opens that puts everyone around them in danger.

Starring alongside Portman and Ingram in the series are Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison and Pruitt Taylor Vince.

The seven-part series debuts on the streaming service with two episodes on Friday 19th July, followed by new episodes every Friday.

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Look out for a new Spanish-language crime drama, coming soon to Apple TV+.

Women in Blue (Las Azules), is set in 1970 and inspired by true events. It tells the story of four women who defy the ultraconservative norms of the time and join Mexico’s first female police force, only to discover that their squad is a publicity stunt to distract the media from a brutal serial killer. As the body count grows, María (Bárbara Mori), whose determination to catch the killer becomes an obsession, Gabina (Amorita Rasgado), whose father is a renowned cop, Ángeles (Ximena Sariñana), a brilliant fingerprint analyst, and Valentina (Natalia Téllez), a young rebel, set up a secret investigation to achieve what no male officer has been able to do and bring the serial killer to justice.

Look out for the 10-episode series on Wednesday 31st July.

 

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The upcoming eight-part series Presumed Innocent stars Jake Gyllenhaal, with the likes of David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams part of the behind-the-camera set-up.

The series tells the story of the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when one of its own is suspected of a crime. The series explores obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.

It also stars Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, O-T Fagbenle, Chase Infiniti, Elizabeth Marvel, Nana Mensah, Renate Reinsve, Peter Sarsgaard and Kingston Rumi Southwick.

Presumed Innocent will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on Wednesday 12th June, followed by a new episode every Wednesday.

 

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Very popular with our favourite neutral newspaper, looks a great series.

Lady in the Lake, check out the Guardian review

 

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The upcoming eight-part series Presumed Innocent stars Jake Gyllenhaal, with the likes of David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams part of the behind-the-camera set-up.

The series tells the story of the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when one of its own is suspected of a crime. The series explores obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.

It also stars Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, O-T Fagbenle, Chase Infiniti, Elizabeth Marvel, Nana Mensah, Renate Reinsve, Peter Sarsgaard and Kingston Rumi Southwick.

Presumed Innocent will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on Wednesday 12th June, followed by a new episode every Wednesday.

Really enjoyed this, some great performances and a nice twist.
Should keep you guessing.....

 

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Disclaimer, the new psychological thriller starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, is coming soon.

Told in seven chapters, the limited series will make its global debut on Friday 11th October with the first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Friday.

Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, Disclaimer is based on the bestselling 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 realise 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 her 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 and Hoyeon, and features Indira Varma as the narrator.

 

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Mick Herron, the multi-award-winning writer behind the Slough House novels and subsequent Slow Horses series on Apple TV+, is getting another of his books adapted for TV.

Down Cemetery Road will star Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilsonlove:), no less, again for Apple TV+.

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker (Wilson) – a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life – becomes obsessed with finding her.

Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband’s wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead. What begins in a peaceful neighbourhood reaches its climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man being hunted down by murderous official forces.

Thompson will play private investigator Zoe Boehm, while Morwenna Banks will adapt for TV.

Not a moan or anything, but I don't like Slow Horses.... I mention it only to perhaps find out what I'm missing. I read his first book but couldn't get on with it (the peculiar character names put me off from the start), but I did rather enjoy the season 1 performances on TV. Then I binged 2 and 3. And suddenly there was a weird quippery about it, one-liners, terrible not believable action bits. It feels like, to me, they don't know what genre they're doing - they've got the producer from Justified but it doesn't have that show's charisma, a writer from The Thick of It but it doesn't warrant the comedy; it has genuinely gripping scenes but the constant shoe-horning in of 'funny' moments and slapstick shootouts has been grating on me for months.

Maybe it grates all the more because all I read is how brilliant it is, but I've watched enough stuff to recognise good stuff.

I feel like I may be alone.

 

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I like Slow Horses, but also really enjoy the books.

Where I’m probably out of step with a lot of Apple TV viewers is in thinking that Ted Lasso is one of the weakest comedies ever written. Also, first episode of Masters of the Air left me cold. Too much CGI and cheesy. Not a patch on The Pacific and Band of Brothers. Maybe I need to stick with it.