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.

Wrapped up this season of Dead to Me and Never Have I Ever, both compelling in their own ways as well as the choose your own adventure version of Kimmy Schmidt, which was fun enough if you’ve gone on the Kimmy journey.

I also somewhat successfully started watching The Peacock, mainly because I recently binged all of Psych and darned if I was going to miss the second movie (which was much as expected if not a little light on psychic powers). And while I wasn’t able to get it to work in browser on my iPad (which supposedly meets the requirements, it does seem to work on laptop browser) I was able to watch on the free app though unable to Chromecast to my TV which appeared available just wouldn’t connect. And while I’m not really going out of my way to go back soon, if it were easy enough to use and they had something I wanted, why not? Though not yet interested in any of the original content and not quite sure on the content level of paid vs free.

This week along with some imports I’m excited for the return of Wynonna Earp on Syfy and didn’t love but enjoyed elements of the first Umbrella Academy so will likely check in on season 2.

• Signs (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 7/22 – A Polish murder mystery, where a new murder shows similarities to a cold case.
• Maxxx (Hulu) Series Premiere, Tuesday 7/28 – A former famous boy band star tries to make a comeback in this UK comedy.
• Ladhood (Hulu) Series Premiere, Wednesday 7/29 – A UK coming-of-age comedy looking at masculinity and memories of misspent adolescence.
• Frayed (HBOM) Series Premiere, Thursday 7/30 – A wealthy London housewife returns to Australian roots and events that led her to flee in this drama.
• In My Skin (Hulu) Series Premiere, Thursday 7/30 – Another coming-of-age UK comedy this one about a teen girl’s very different home and school life.
• Brassic (Hulu) Series Premiere, Friday 7/31 – A UK comedy following two friends, one with bipolar disorder.
• Get Even (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 7/31 – Four teen girls band together to get revenge in this UK private school comedy.
• Locked Up (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 7/31 – This Spanish thriller follows a naive young woman sentenced to prison after being manipulated by her boyfriend.
• The Code (Ova) Series Premiere, Saturday 8/1, 7pm – A drama about two brothers in Australia who come across a video of a car accident whose contents are ‘shocking’.

Returning streaming: How to Sell Drugs Online (Net, 7/21), Norsemen (Net, 7/22), Rebecka Martinsson (Acorn, 7/27), Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons (Net), The Umbrella Academy (Net, 7/31).

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.

I wrapped Ozark which threw down with another dark season, visually and content wise, if this is your kind of show definitely check it out. Things are starting to peter out but one of my fave escapist shows The Bold Type and a very special animated episode of One Day at a Time are on the radar. And this week if you’re looking for a special on the topics of today Monday The Time is Now: Race and Resolution on History/Lifetime/A&E, and Tuesday-Wed on various channels including Own: Own Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?

• The Woods (Net) Series Premiere, Friday 6/12 – Based on a Harlan Coben novel, a prosecutor’s hopes rise when a body is found and linked to sister’s disappearance.
• Partners in Crime (Ova) Series Premiere, Saturday 6/13 – Based on Agatha Christie’s work and following a crime fighting couple, probably par for this kind of course.
• Beecham House (PBS) Series Premiere, Sunday 6/14 – Not great early buzz for former soldier trying to start a new life but carrying a secret.
• Love,Victor (Hulu) Series Premiere, Friday 6/19 – Inspired by the film Love, Simon this one follows our protagonist while adjusting to a new high school.
• Perry Mason (HBO) Series Premiere, Sunday 6/21 – Matthew Rhys picks up as criminal defense lawyer, with the case of the decade, no early word but I’d give it a shot.

Additional streaming:

• Curon (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 6/10 – Teen twins discover secrets when their mother mysteriously disappears in this Italian fantasy series.
• Reality Z (Net) Series Premiere, Wednesday 6/10 – A zombie apocalypse imprison contestants on a reality show studio in this Brazilian Horror series.
• Whispers (Net) Series Premiere, Thursday 6/11 – A Saudi thriller about a family facing the death of the patriarch as secrets come out.

Returning streaming: Dating Around (Net, 6/12), F is for Family (Net, 6/12), Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Net, 6/12), Pokeman the Series (Net, 6/12), Marcella (Net, 6/14), Hidden (Acorn, 6/15), Mr. Iglesias (Net, 6/17), The Bureau (SundN, 6/18), The Order (Net, 6/18), Summer Camp Island (HBOM, 6/18), Babies (Net, 6/19), Coisa Mais Linda (Net, 6/19), The Politician (Net, 6/19).

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.