Description: My favorite shows that premiered in 2020! In some cases I’m cheating and using the U.S. Premiere dates of a show that premiered elsewhere earlier!
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Everything's Gonna Be Okay
( 2020 )
Everything's Gonna Be Okay centers on Nicholas, a typical 25-year-old still living at home with his single dad and two teenage half-sisters, who is not particularly helpful in raising his siblings, one of which has autism. However, when their dad becomes terminally ill, the girls have to cope with not only a devastating loss but also the realization that Nicholas is the one who will have to hold it all together.
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We Hunt Together
( 2020 )
We Hunt Together begins with the collision of two extraordinary people; Baba, a former child soldier desperate to suppress his violent conditioning, and Freddy, a magnetic and disarmingly charming free spirit. When Baba rescues Freddy from an attack following a date that has turned sour, something dark is ignited in them both.
In this bold new take on the classic cat and mouse story, two star-crossed killers are on the loose with two dysfunctional detectives in hot pursuit. DS Lola Franks and DI Jackson Mendy have to come to terms with their mismatched partnership and polar opposite outlooks on the culpability of the criminal mind as they try to outsmart the killers.
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Little Fires Everywhere
( 2020 )
Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. The story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
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Devs
( 2020 )
Devs focuses on a young software engineer named Lily Chan who works for Amaya, a cutting-edge tech company based in Silicon Valley. After her boyfriend's apparent suicide, Lily suspects foul play and begins to investigate. She quickly realizes that all roads lead to Forest, Amaya's enigmatic CEO, and Devs, the company's secret development division. In Lily's quest to discover the truth, she uncovers a technology-based conspiracy that could change the world.
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Spinning Out
( 2020 )
Spinning Out is an edgy drama series about Kat Baker, an up-and-coming, high-level single skater who's about to turn in her skates after a disastrous fall took her off the competition track. When Kat seizes an opportunity to continue her career as a pair skater with a talented bad-boy partner, she risks exposing a fiercely kept secret that could unravel her entire life. On and off the ice, Kat and her new partner will face daunting odds, injury to body and soul, financial sacrifice, and even potential mental breakdown on their way to realizing their Olympic dream.
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Gentefied
( 2020 )
Three Latinx cousins navigate their differences as they work to keep their grandfather's taco shop afloat in their rapidly gentrifying L.A. neighborhood.
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In My Skin
( 2018 )
Picking up from where the 2018 pilot left off, In My Skin follows Bethan as she desperately tries to keep the truth of her home life a secret from her friends. But when your mother is sectioned in a mental facility near your school and has a penchant for breaking out, and your father is a Hell's Angel who drives a rag and bone truck—flying under the radar ain't so easy. Nevertheless, Bethan is determined to save her own blushes. But her cheek and wit can only carry her so far as she digs herself deeper and deeper in to a hole of her own lies.
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Maxxx
( 2017 )
Hilariously outrageous comedy that takes a cringe-inducing peek behind the pop world's curtain as former boyband star turned tabloid laughing stock Maxxx tries to relaunch his music career.
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Alex Rider
( 2020 )
When Alex Rider learns that his uncle Ian has been killed in the line of duty as a British spy – and not in a car accident like he's been told – everything changes for this otherwise normal teen. He is approached by Alan Blunt, head of a shadowy offshoot of MI6 known as The Department, who reveals that Alex has been unknowingly trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage. Pressured to help investigate his uncle's death – and how it connects to the assassination of two high-profile billionaires – Alex reluctantly assumes a new identity and goes undercover in a remote boarding school called Point Blanc. Isolated far above the snowline in the French Alps, Point Blanc claims to set the troubled teenage children of the ultra-rich back onto the right track. But as he digs deeper, Alex discovers that the students are in fact the subjects of a disturbing plan by the mysterious Doctor Greif – a plan which he will have to risk his life to stop.
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Trackers
( 2019 )
Trackers interweaves three story strands into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.An adaptation of Deon Meyer's 2011 novel of the same name.
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Pure
( 2019 )
22 year old Marnie is not OK. She may just seem quiet to others, but the noise inside her head is relentless. For the last 2031 days, she has been assailed by an incessant barrage of graphic x-rated thoughts that intrude, at the most inopportune of moments, on her day to day life. Whether she's sitting exams at university, waiting at a bus stop or passing strangers on a street, her life is interrupted by irrepressible sexual thoughts. Marnie has no idea what's wrong with her - Is she gay? A sex addict?? A pervert??? Why is she plagued by these mental images and what do they mean? Is that who she really is, deep down?Pure is painfully human, sharply observed, and outrageously funny adaptation of Rose Bretécher's acclaimed book. It is a moving, warm and truthful exploration of one young woman's search for herself and her very real struggle with mental illness. It explores what it means to be a young woman today, what it means to discover a whole new world. It's about finding new friends, and most importantly, about falling in love.
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Dead Pixels
( 2019 )
Dead Pixels is a new comedy which is part-live action and part-computer animation. The show is based on a 2016 Channel 4 Blap.Meg, Nicky and Usman's lives all revolve around their obsession for the massively popular fantasy game ‘Kingdom Scrolls' – a mystical, magical and most importantly virtual world of wizards and wyverns. But when gaming n00b Russell bumbles into their team, the group find themselves increasingly forced to deal with the real world. From house parties to disappointed parents to internet perverts, Dead Pixels takes an affectionate, humorous look at the world of online gaming.
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I Hate Suzie
( 2020 )
I Hate Suzie is a bold, bracing, funny drama about the moment in life when the mask slips, asking if any us can survive being well and truly ‘known'. Suzie Pickles, a star on the wane, has her whole life upended when her phone is hacked and a photo of her emerges in an extremely compromising position. This excruciatingly honest show reveals her unmasking and its trauma episode by episode, through the stages of Shock, Denial, Fear, Shame, Bargaining, Guilt, Anger and Acceptance as Suzie and her best friend and manager Naomi try to hold her life, career and marriage together in the face of being exposed for who she truly is. But who the hell is that?
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Biohackers
( 2020 )
A medical student enters a top German university on a secret mission to uncover a conspiracy linking a family tragedy to a visionary biology professor.
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Retrograde
( 2020 )
Retrograde follows the lives of a group of thirty-something friends as they drown their sorrows at a virtual bar in the time of COVID-19.
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Locke & Key
( 2020 )
Locke & Key revolves around three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities. Little do they know, a devious demon also wants the keys, and will stop at nothing to attain them.
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Love in the Time of Corona
( 2020 )
Love in the Time of Corona is a funny and hopeful look at the search for love, sex and connection during this time of social distancing. The series will follow several interwoven stories with an ensemble of characters who are sheltering in their homes, some of whom are wondering if a hookup with a roommate can ever be casual, while another is kicking herself for deciding to isolate with an ex. It is a show that takes a fresh look at love that knows no bounds. The series will be filmed using remote technologies while utilizing talents' real living spaces as the backdrop to the stories.
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Upright
( 2019 )
Lucky Flynn hasn't spoken to his family in years. He's broke, distant and damaged. He's also a gifted pianist, whose talent for music is matched only by his talent for self-destruction. When he learns that his mother has only days left to live, Lucky sets off in a hire car to drive the 4,000km from Sydney to Perth to say goodbye, taking with him his only cherished possession in the world: a battered and scarred upright piano.But what should have been a straightforward drive across the outback soon becomes a test of Lucky's emotional fitness, when he quite literally runs into Meg, a hilarious, tough-as-nails teenager, who we soon discover has plenty of scars and secrets of her own.
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Motherland: Fort Salem
( 2020 )
Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the U.S. government to fight for their country, Motherland follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment at Fort Salem. In this world, the traditional roles of gender and power are flipped with the more dominant women on the front lines fighting looming terrorist threats that are familiar to our world, but with tactics and weapons supernatural.
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The Commons
( 2019 )
The Commons is a character driven thriller set at the crossroads of climate change and the cutting edge of biotechnology. Set in the not too distant future, it's a story about motherhood as the ultimate act of faith in humanity. Part mystery, part relationship drama, it puts a human face on what's coming down the road and the heroism that lies inside us all when our backs are against the wall.
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The Gloaming
( 2020 )
The Gloaming: the twilight space where light meets dark, the space between awake and asleep, where time passes but secrets linger… Unorthodox, troubled cop Molly McGee leads an investigation into the murder of an unidentified woman. To solve the case, Molly has to team up with Alex O'Connell – a man she hasn't spoken to in twenty years – and they discover that the murder has links to a cold case from the past. What begins as a routine investigation exposes something more insidious, and to catch the killer, Molly and Alex have to face the ghosts of their past.
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Tales from the Loop
( 2020 )
Based on the acclaimed art of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, Tales from the Loop explores the town and people who live above The Loop, a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction. In this fantastical, mysterious town, poignant human tales are told that bare universal emotional experiences while drawing on the intrigue of genre storytelling.
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Intelligence
( 2020 )
Intelligence is a workplace comedy set in the UK's GCHQ—a kind of weedier, geekier version of MI5, where they tackle international and domestic Cyber Crime from a desktop. But when a pompous, maverick NSA agent comes over from the U.S. to join the team, he enlists an inept and tactless computer analyst in a power grab that threatens to disrupt the team's ability to combat cyber terrorism.
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Dispatches from Elsewhere
( 2020 )
Dispatches from Elsewhere centers around four ordinary people who feel there's something missing in their lives, but they can't quite put their finger on what it is. This diverse foursome is brought together by chance – or perhaps it's by design – when they stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. As they begin to accept the mysterious Dispatches from Elsewhere challenges, they come to find that the mystery winds deeper than they imagined, and their eyes are opened to a world of possibility and magic.
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68 Whiskey
( 2020 )
68 Whiskey chronicles the lives of a diverse group of Army medics stationed in Afghanistan. The medics rely on friendship, vices and a shared sense of purpose to carry them through a dangerous (and sometimes absurd) world.
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The Wheel
( 2020 )
Hosted by the Bafta award-winning Michael McIntyre, each episode sees a mixture of great contestants, celebrity guests and laugh out loud moments as The Wheel brings a brand new spin to Saturday nights on BBC One.
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Celebrity Watch Party
( 2020 )
Celebrities film themselves watching and reacting, along with their families at home, to hilarious and exciting TV shows and films, as well as the most talked-about news events. "Celebrity Watch Party" is an insightful, funny and sometimes emotional critique of America's pop culture. Featured celebrities include Rob Lowe, Meghan Trainor, Joe Buck, Raven-Symoné, and more.
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Meet the Richardsons
( 2020 )
Meet the Richardsons is a comedy series offering a fictional window into the funny and frustrated marriage of stand-up comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont. The pair play exaggerated versions of themselves as viewers get a glimpse into their home and work lives, surrounded by their celebrity friends and Hebden Bridge neighbours.Jon and Lucy find out what their neighbours really think of them, the type of birthday party they should have for their daughter Elsie, and Jon's constant refusal to do or go to anything, much to Lucy's annoyance (that part isn't exaggerated).
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Guessable
( 2020 )
Guessable is a brand new comedy panel show that involves two celebrity teams competing to identify the famous name or object inside a mystery box!Sara Pascoe hosts the show with John Kearns on hand as her assistant, whilst Alan Davies and Darren Harriott are on board as team captains. Guessable is an entertaining new format for Comedy Central that puts a unique new twist on classic family guessing games.
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prism : very confusing episode.