Sorry about the slight delay this week, technology is our friend and sometimes friends don’t get along. But a bunch more streaming to come though mostly I’m sticking to old streaming. Have restarted Breaking Bad, which I never finished. And did finish the mostly garbage Emily in Paris, but entertaining enough garbage if you’re down with a rom com.

• A Suitable Boy (Acorn) Series Premiere, Monday 12/7 – An epic tale of life and love set in 1950s India in this adaptation of a Vikram Set novel.
• Nurses (NBC) Series Premiere, Monday 12/7, 10pm – Another Canadian import, this one about five nurses working in a busy hospital in Toronto, early word is meh (re-airs Wednesday).
• La Jauria (HBOM) Series Premiere, Tuesday 12/8 – A woman disappears in this Spanish crime thriller.
• Lovestruck in the City (Net) Series Premiere, Tuesday 12/8 – A man looks to reconnect with a woman from his beachside romance in this Korean romance.
• The Trial of Christine Keeler (HBOM) Series Premiere, Wednesday 12/9 – The story of a woman at the center of one of the 20th century’s biggest scandals about the minister, his mistress, and her lover the spy.
• Alice in Borderland (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 12/10 – Gamers find themselves in a parallel Tokyo where they have to compete in this Japanese sci-fi.
• The Wilds (Am) Series Premiere, Friday 12/11 – Lost for teen girls?
• Adult Material (HBOM) Series Premiere, Friday 12/11 – A drama focusing on a woman’s life in the adult film industry.
• The Mess You Leave Behind (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 12/11 – A teacher is haunted by a suspicious death and fears for her life in this Spanish suspense show.
• Reunions (Acorn) Series Premiere, Monday 12/14 – Two half-brothers are brought together after their father’s death and the inheritance of a hotel in this French family drama.
• Tiny Pretty Things (Net) Series Premiere, Monday 12/14 – Ballet drama in an elite Chicago dance school.
• How to Ruin Christmas (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 12/16 – Can a sister make things right after ruining the perfect Christmas wedding in this quirky South African dramedy.
• Run On (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 12/16 – A track star finds his own path in this Korean romantic drama.
• The Stand (CBSAA) Series Premiere, Thursday 12/17 – Based on the Stephen King apocalyptic world, one can only hope.
• Total Control (SundN) Series Premiere, Thursday 12/17 – An indigenous woman in Australia is thrust into the political limelight.
• El Cid (Am) Series Premiere, Friday 12/18 – A modern day take on an old Spanish legend of a man trapped between two worlds and cultures..
• Sweet Home (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 12/18 – A teen and his neighbors fight to survive as humans turn into monsters in this Korean fantasy drama.

Returning streaming: Mr. Iglesias (Net, 12/8), Summer Camp Island (HBOM, 12/10), Clifford the Big Red Dog (Am, 12/11), Madagascar (Hulu, 12/11), Where’s Waldo (Pea, 12/11), Hilda (Net, 12/14), Song Exploder (Net, 12/15), The Expanse (Am, 12/16), The Grand Tour (Am, 12/18), Home for Christmas (Net, 12/18).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.

Well we’re heading into the holiday season so things usually start to calm down. We’re in a new era so of course slowing down doesn’t mean drying up. And of course there are the random items to grab like National Dog Show on Thanksgiving/Thanksgiving Day Parade, the airing of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life on CW, and various holiday specials. I also made some backlog progress with the very fun Trinkets and the mildly entertaining and informative Get Organized with The Home Edit on Netflix, as well as backlog item Mr Robot which I barely understood but really appreciated the performances.

• Black Narcissus (FX) Mini series Premiere, Monday 11/23, 8pm – Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, it’s apparently a Himalayan set 1930s erotic psychological horror nunnery drama.
• Heroes of Lucha Libre (Crack) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/25 – A dramatic look at the sport of Lucha Libre with a comic book superhero twist.
• Saved by the Bell (Pea) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/25 – With a few of the original cast reprising their roles we’re introduced to some of the current Bayside High students as the students from underfunded schools transfer in.
• Terror Lake Drive (UMC) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/25 – A single mother looks to start a new like in Atlanta but can’t outrun everything in this suspenseful drama.
• The Flight Attendant (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/26 – Kaley Cuoco from Big Bang Theory helms this dark comedic thriller where her life takes a turn when she wakes up with a dead man, early reviews are good.
• Over Christmas (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 11/27 – Down-and-out musician returns home for some not so cheery surprises in this drama.
• The Uncanny Counter (Net) Series Premiere, Saturday 11/28 – Noodle shop employees by day and demon hunters by night in this Korean drama.
• The Commons (SundN) Series Premiere, Thursday 12/3 – Anna from Downton Abbey wants to have a baby but she and her scientist husband are challenged by that and the world around them.
• The Hardy Boys (Hulu) Series Premiere, Friday 12/4 – Would be nice if this remake were a good one but no word so far.
• Bhaag Beanie Bhaag (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 12/4 – An aspiring comic pursues stand-up in this Indian comedy.
• Selena (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 12/4 – Mexican-American Tejano singer comes of age and pursues her music.
• Detention (Net) Series Premiere, Saturday 12/5 – A student uncovers haunting secrets from a 1960s Taiwan High School.
• Your Honor (Show) Series Premiere, Sunday 12/6, 10pm – Bryan Cranston as judge looks to protect his sun after a hit-and-run accident.

Returning streaming: Great Pretender (Net, 11/25), Sugar Rush Christmas (Net, 11/27), Virgin River (Net, 11/27), Brassic (Hulu, 12/4), Big Mouth (Net, 12/4), The Great British Baking Show: Holidays (Net, 12/4).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.

Well aside from obsessively checking election results I’ve also knocked off a few streamers. The Good Fight‘s latest season which I purchased as it was on my Staycation watching. The Great on Hulu which was quite odd and quite good, some might say great. Counterpart also very good but dark and a little confusing keeping track of overlapping dual worlds. And the also odd but very good Brockmire. I think I did pretty great on those picks. And also cruised through old series McCallum which I started recording for some reason when I was looking for Ovation network for some reason, good enough procedural.

• The Southwesterlies (Acorn) Series Premiere, Monday 11/9 – Comic drama set in a coastal town of Ireland dealing with the threat of introducing a windfarm.
• Industry (HBO) Series Premiere, Monday 11/9 – A group of young grads compete for limited positions at a London bank, some good early buzz.
• Dash & Lily (Net) Series Premiere, Tuesday 11/10 – A Christmas romance based on exchanged notes in a book.
• A Teacher (Hulu) Series Premiere, Tuesday 11/10 – Kate Mara plays a teacher with an illegal relationship with her student, early word not great.
• Eater’s Guide to the World (Hulu) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/11 – Reality highlight brings Maya Rudolph on a quest for an epic meal with locals.
• Ethos (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/12 – Eight people’s paths meet in Istanbul.
• Valley of Tears (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/12 – Inspired by true events of the ’73 Yom Kippur war in Israel.
• Alex Rider (IMDBTV) Series Premiere, Friday 11/13 – A coming of age spy thriller based on the novel Point Blanc.
• The Minions of Midas (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 11/13 – A millionaire publisher gets blackmailed, inspired by Jack London story.
• Big Sky (ABC) Series Premiere, Tuesday 11/17, 10pm – The latest from David E. Kelly, based on a series of books by C.J. Box brings detectives together to search for kidnapped sisters and try to stop the killer.
• No Man’s Land (Hulu) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/18 – A look into the Syrian civil war through the eyes of a young French man.
• Cold Call (SundN) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/19 – Four part British dark thriller follows a woman seeking revenge after getting caught in a cold call scam.
• For the Love of Jason (UMC) Series Premiere, Thursday, 11/19 – A drama looking at being single in your 30s from the male perspective.
• I Hate Suzie (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/19 – An actress has her life upended when she’s hacked and photos of her get out.
• Veneno (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/19 – Based on the memoir by Valeria Vegas about her life intertwining with transgender icon La Veneno.
• Small Axe (Am) Series Premiere, Friday 11/20 – Anthology series of five original films set in the 60s-80s that tell personal stories from London’s West Indian community, early word is good.
• The Pack (Am) Series Premiere, Friday 11/20 – Reality highlight on Lindsey Vonn and dog Lucy hosting a competition where humans and their dogs face challenges around the world.

Returning streaming: Mystery Road (Aco, 11/9), Undercover (Net, 11/9), The Crown (Net, 11/15), The Boss Baby (Net, 11/17), Bitter Daisies (Net, 11/18), Cleopatra in Space (Pea, 11/19), Flavorful Origins (Net, 11/20).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.

Well relatively speaking the next couple weeks are looking a little light, though we are still getting the return of some of the network comedies. And of course there’s the election on 11/3 to take over the tv for an unknown amount of time. I did wrap up the brutal and flawed and yet very entertaining The Boys on Amazon.

• Temple (Spec) Series Premiere, Monday 10/26 – A doctor runs an illegal clinic under London’s subway to fund research to help his wife.
• Truth Seekers (Am) Series Premiere, Friday 10/30 – Nick Frost and Simon Pegg play ghost hunters who team up to film paranormal sightings in this UK comedy series.
• Roadkill (PBS) Series Premiere, Sunday 11/1 – Hugh Laurie in a political thriller, I’m in.
• Love and Anarchy (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 11/4 – Scandinavian romantic comedy focusing on a married consultant and a young IT tech.
• Paranormal (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/5 – Egyptian fantasy where a ‘skeptical’ hematologist faces a series of inexplicable events and investigates.
• B Positive (CBS) Series Premiere, Thursday 11/5, 8:30pm – Can kidney donation bring these two together in this latest Chuck Lorre series.
• Moonbase 8 (Show) Series Premiere, Sunday 11/8, 11pm – Fred Arisen, Tim Heidecker, and John C Reilly are looking to complete their NASA training at a simulator in Arizona in this comedy series.

Returning streaming: Chico Bon Bon (Net, 10/27), Ghosts (HBOM, 10/27), The Mandalorian (Dis+, 10/30), Somebody Feed Phil (Net, 10/30), Riviera (SundN, 11/5), Save Me Too (Pea, 11/5).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.

So looks like more sports are picking back up again Tour de France is happening, US Open Tennis kicks off on Monday, and NFL Thursday 9/10. I wrapped up End of the F***ing World and Undone both of which were good but odd. Still plugging away on the backlog. Not sure how there’s so much new stuff, but nothing piquing my interest, other than season 2 of The Boys, having recently wrapped season 1.

• Gosta (HBOM) Series Premiere, Monday 8/31 – This Swedish drama follows a child psychologist who moves to a small town and is apparently trying to do good in a dysfunctional world.
• Bookmarks (Net) Series Premiere, Tuesday 9/1 – Reality spotlight on the Marley Dias hosted showcase of celebrity authors reading children’s books by black authors.
• Metro Sexual (Crack) Series Premiere, Tuesday 9/1 – Australian sitcom takes a peek behind the doctor’s curtain at a small local sex clinic.
• Transplant (NBC) Series Premiere, Tuesday 9/1, 10pm – Another Canadian arrival to network tv, this drama follows a Syrian doctor trying to reestablish his career after fleeing his country.
• Assisted Living (BET) Series Premiere, Wednesday 9/2, 10/10:30pm – Tyler Perry’s latest is a comedy centered on a family trying to run a home for the elderly.
• Raised by Wolves (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/3 – Two androids raising children on an alien planet from EP Ridley Scott, early reviews are mixed.
• The Sounds (Ac) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/3 – A Canadian couple move to New Zealand to run a salmon fisher and when the husband disappears secrets are revealed in this drama.
• We Got This (SundN) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/3 – An American in Sweden tries to solve 30 year old murder of a former prime minister, dark comedy based on true speculation.
• Young Wallander (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/3 – A re-imagining of BBC’s Wallander as a cop in his early 20s in Sweden.
• Away (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 9/4 – Hilary Swank commands a mission to Mars, early reviews are mixed.
• Noughts + Crosses (Pea) Series Premiere, Friday 9/4 – Adapted from the YA series following the story of two star-crossed kids whose color divides them.
• Power Book II: Ghost (Starz) Series Premiere, Sunday 9/6, 8pm – A Power spinoff picks up after the finale and follows Tariq trying to navigate his new life, I assume if you watched Power you know what that means.
• Record of Youth (Net) Series Premiere, Monday 9/7 – South Korean drama about two actors and a makeup artist making their way in the world.
• Get Organized with the Home Edit (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 9/9 – Another reality spotlight because I just love some organizing, this one brought by Reese Witherspoon and Molly Sims with Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin of The Home Edit.
• Woke (Hulu) Series Premiere, Wednesday 9/9 – Inspired by the work and art of Keith Knight, a comedic look at a cartoonist who suddenly starts seeing things a little differently.
• The Idhun Chronicles (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/10 – An animated comedy about a magical world where two young earthlings fight assassins.
• Julie and the Phantoms (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 9/10 – A teen girl helps a trio of ghosts with their band in this comedy.
• The Duchess (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 9/11 – A single mom juggling life and considering another kid.
• Malory Towers (BYUTV) Series Premiere, Sunday 9/13 – Based on British novels set in an all-girls boarding school in England after WWII.
• Van Der Valk (PBS) Series Premiere, Sunday 9/13, 9pm – Three part drama based on Feeling’s crime thrillers, cop faces cases in Amsterdam.

Returning streaming: The Yorkshire Vet (Ac, 8/31), A.P. Bio (Pea, 9/3), The Boys (Am, 9/4), Spirit Riding Free (Net, 9/4), Starbeam (Net, 9/8), LA’s Finest (Spec, 9/9), The Gift (Net, 9/10), Family Business (Net, 9/11).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.

This week’s completed seasons included Dear White People, which I overall still really dig but maybe not as much as last season, Big Mouth, which is one of those shows I’m not sure why I find funny but I do, and The Boys which I can’t wait for this next season to see what these guys will be into. Still lots of backlog, I guess at some point I need to narrow down again but I can worry about that when tv production properly resumes.

• Democratic Convention (Various) – From Monday, August 17 to Thursday, August 20, 9-11pm Eastern, NBC/CBS/ABC seem to be showing it at 10pm PST or you do live with CNN or stream it from the site at demconvention.com/watch.
• Dead Pixels (CW) Series Premiere, Tuesday 8/18, 8pm – A British sitcom about a three of online fantasy gamers.
• RuPaul’s Drag Race: Vegas Revue (VH1) Series Premiere, Friday 8/21, 8pm – Reality spotlight on this spin-off from Drag Race where we follow legendary drag queens.
• Love in the Time of Corona (Free) Series Premiere, Saturday 8/22, pm – So someone had to crank out the first full Corona series shot in their own homes, this limited series shows three married couples and a pair of roommates.
• Pure (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/27 – A woman tries to combat her obsessive x-rated thoughts and flees home to London where she finds connections.

More streaming:

• Biohackers (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/20 – A woman gets tangled up trying to find out info about a past family tragedy in this German sci-fi thriller.
• Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 8/26 – Riches-to-rags pianist is guided by stars to a small town in this Korean romantic dramedy.
• Her Mother’s Killer (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 8/26 – A political strategist plots to ruin the Colombian presidential candidate who killed her mom 30 years ago in this political drama.
• Masaba Masaba (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 8/28 – Real life mother and daughter play fictions versions of themselves in this Hindi fashion drama.

Returning Streaming: Lucifer (Net, 8/21), Find Me in Paris (Hulu, 8/21), Rust Valley Restorers (Net, 8/21), Aggretsuko (Net, 8/27).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.

This week I wrapped up the second season of Kominsky Method which has some very good old guy humor from Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin. I also wrapped my New Adventures of Old Christine rewatch which is still a hoot of a good show, if you like a show about people who are a mess, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and this cast nails it. Last week I also tried Tell Me a Story that wasn’t showing up as new because it’s apparently a reairing on CW from CBS All Access, while the slow season means I’ll give this show another shot I like the idea of reselling some of these series from off networks and things like Canadian reairing, Coroner below. No advanced word on any of the new entries.

• Invisible Stories (HBOM) Series Premiere, Monday 8/3 – A six -episode half hour anthology drama about migrant workers in Asia.
• Coroner (CW) Series Premiere, Wednesday 8/5 – Recently widowed newly appointed coroner investigates suspicious deaths in this Canadian drama.
• Hitmen (Pea) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/6 – A comedy about two best buddy hitmen and the hijinks they get into.
• Upright (SundN) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/6 – An eight-part Australian comedy drama that follows a shabby musician driving across the country.
• We Hunt Together (Show) Series Premiere, Sunday 8/9 – Two conflicted detectives track down a pair of killers in this six-episode drama.
• The Other One (Acorn) Series Premiere, Monday 8/10 – A comedy following two half sisters both named Catherine Walcott who find each other after their father dies.
• Five Bedrooms (Pea) Series Premiere, Thursday 8/13 – Five people who meet at the singles table at a wedding end up buying a house together, for some reason.
• The Great Heist (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 8/14 – Based on the ’94 robbery of $33 million from Colombia’s central bank.
• Ted Lasso (App+) Series Premiere, Friday 8/14 – A comedy series where Jason Sudeikis plays a Kansas football coach hired to coach an English pro soccer team.
• Teenage Bounty Hunters (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 8/14 – Twin sisters in an elite high school get to bounty hunting.
• Lovecraft Country (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 8/16 – Based on a book, a trek across ’50s segregated America to find a missing father.

Returning streaming: The Seven Deadly Sins (Net, 8/6), High Seas (Net, 8/7), Nailed it! Mexico (Net, 8/7), The New Legends of Monkey (Net, 8/7), Selling Sunset (Net, 8/7), Infinity Train (HBOM, 8/13), Glow Up (Net, 8/14), Weird But True (Dis+, 8/14), Rita (Net, 8/15).

The procrastinator lists mostly scripted items that may not be on your regular season pass, though notation does not imply recommendation. Times noted are typically PST.