10 Shows to Watch on TV This Winter
Good news: there are plenty of great shows on the way.
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And just like that, we're back with the girls! Can we still call them that? Probably not, they're well into their 50s. But true to form, they're still living their best New York lives. This season begins with Carrie settled into her enormous new Brownstone, Miranda dating up a storm (Che Diaz is out of the picture), and Charlotte still knee-deep in teen life. Frothy, escapist fun.
Starring and executive produced by Owen Wilson, this series is about an over-the-hill pro golfer (Wilson) who, after the collapse of his life and his marriage, decides to hedge his bets and mentor a 17-year-old golf prodigy called Santi (Peter Dager). Described as a 'heartfelt, feel-good sports comedy', it's already getting lots of buzz. Ted Lasso 2.0?
There have been some great British crime dramas doing the rounds of late, and this one, starring Sean Bean as a cocaine smuggling gangster called Ronnie Phelan, is up there, having already generated plenty of buzz in the UK. Joining Bean are James Nelson-Joyce as Ronnie's associate and Hannah Onslow as the woman he falls for — their love story is at the centre of the story.
Based on the enormously popular book by Jane Harper, this stars The Rings Of Power's Charlie Vickers as Kieran Elliott, a man returning to his home town in Tasmania, along with his partner (Yerin Ha, who'll soon be seen as the romantic lead in the upcoming series of Bridgerton), haunted by a tragedy that changed their lives years earlier. When a woman's body is discovered on the beach, the truth of what really occurred comes to light. Emily Alyn Lind and Shubham Maheshwari star in We Were Liars. Credit: Jessie Redmond / Prime
Based on the bestselling novel by E. Lockhart, the series follows the story of wealthy teen Cadence Sinclair Eastman (Emily Alyn Lind) and her close-knit group of friends, nicknamed The Liars. Cadence, from a privileged and secretive family, returns to their private island a year after a mysterious accident changed her life — dark secrets begin to emerge. One for younger viewers.
If you've ever made a mixtape, then this one's for you! Based on the novel by Jane Sanderson, this tells the story of two teen lovers, Alison (Teresa Palmer) and Daniel (Jim Sturgess), living in Sheffield, England, in 1989 who drift apart, only to reconnect years later on the other side of the world. This has big One Day energy, and fans of that nostalgic Netflix series will want to check this out. Bay of Fires, starring Marta Dusseldorp, is back for a second season. Credit: Supplied
Season two of this Tasmanian-set dark comedy is hitting screens mid-June. It sees Marta Dusseldorp returning to reprise her role as mum-on-the-run, Stella. She's still stuck in Mystery Bay, but good news — no one has tried to kill her in recent months! But things won't stay smooth-sailing for long — you can't mess with the Russian mafia and not expect consequences.
Those that love a period drama will be pleased to see that this under-the-radar favourite is returning for a third season. The Julian Fellowes-created show follows New York's upper-crust as they navigate life in the 'Gilded Age'. Come for the fabulous frocks, stay for sensational performances from The White Lotus' Carrie Coon and Christine Baranski.
Disney is doing fans a solid favour and dropping all 10 episodes of the fourth season at the same time — winning! This season sees Carmy, Sydney and Richie determined to move forward after the disastrous run-up to the opening of their fine dining establishment. Can they overcome all that toxicity and pull together as a team? We can't wait to find out.
If you've seen the trailer for the third and final season of Squid Game, chances are you'll be bracing for the show's release — it looks scary as heck! This final series picks up from season two's devastating cliffhanger, and thrusts Gi-hun (Player 456) back into the game — he's more determined than ever to dismantle it once and for all. This one's shaping up to be big.
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Netflix turns Cockatoo Island into ‘Wednesday Island' for fan event led by Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton
Don't miss out on the headlines from Red Carpet. Followed categories will be added to My News. Sydney's iconic Cockatoo Island underwent a makeover on Saturday night when the cast and creatives of the Netflix hit, Wednesday, took over the historic landmark – and there were no 'normies' allowed. The former convict shipyard was renamed Wednesday Island to celebrate the release of the smash-hit series' second season, with its stars Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Gwendoline Christie and Hunter Doohan delighting diehard fans who dressed up as their favourite 'outcast' for the occasion. Wednesday stars and fans celebrate with creepy exclusive event Video Player is loading. Play Video This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. 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Picture:for Netflix Netflix transformed the iconic landmark into Wednesday Island for the evening, complete with five-metre high pyre set ablaze. Picture:for Netflix Since Wednesday's Season 2: Part 1 release on August 6, Netflix has already recorded a staggering 50 million views – and viewership is only set to soar with the release of Season 2: Part 2 on September 3. 'This is such a lovely turnout,' Hunter Doohan, who portrays Tyler Galpin, Wednesday's love interest – who turns out to be a monstrous creature, told from the purple carpet. 'I haven't been back in Australia for almost 10 years. My dad's entire family is from Australia, and so it's kind of surreal to come back and (have) this be the way I'm doing it.' Hunter Doohan, whose father is Australian, delighted the crowd with his presence. Picture:for Netflix Gwendoline Christie was unmissable on the purple carpet. 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Fans were treated to a world-exclusive announcement — Gwendoline Christie will return to the series. Sydney played host to a Wednesday ... more Like Ortega and Doohan, the British actor said she was also in awe of the fandom the show has created not just in Australia, but across the globe – and she credits director Tim Burton for this impact. Wednesday executive producer and director Tim Burton added a touch of Hollywood on the night. Picture:for Netflix The creators of the series, Miles Millar (left) and Alfred Gough, said they are still surprised at the fandom levels in Australia. Picture:for Netflix 'I think it's just extraordinary. I mean, the global impact of this show is continuing to echo and reverberate around the world,' she told 'I just adore Tim. I wanted to work with Tim my entire life. There is absolutely no one else on earth like him. 'I adore his filmmaking sensibility. He's a masterful filmmaker and it's always extremely elegant and entirely original. 'But I love the tender vulnerability and humour that runs throughout all of his work. There's never been anyone ever like him.' Ortega and Myers play besties on the series. Picture:for Netflix Myers greeted diehard fans dressed as their favourite outcast from the film. Picture:for Netflix The evening marked the conclusion of the Global Doom Tour, with Sydney its last stop after the cast and creatives visited England, Poland, Italy, France, Romania, the US, Canada and South Korea. And no one is more surprised than Burton at how embraced the series is around the world. 'You make something and you hope that anybody likes it,' the Oscar-nominated director told Ortega and Burton later took to the stage to talk all things Season 2. Picture:for Netflix The cast hosted the special Outcast Assembly. Picture:for Netflix Thousands of fans assembled inside the abandoned warehouse on Cockatoo Island. Picture:for Netflix 'Honestly, that's the main thing. I just know that that's the most beautiful thing, is that when you make something and it connects to somebody.' Myers, who plays Wednesday's bubbly best friend on the show, said she enjoys making the series as much as people enjoy watching it. 'I just find it fun. I think you don't have to think too much to watch it. It's just enjoyable,' she said at the event. 'We have a lot of fun making it, and I'm glad that a lot of people have fun watching it.' Wednesday Season 2: Part 1 is now streaming only on Netflix. Wednesday Season 2: Part 2 will be available on September 3 Originally published as Netflix turns Cockatoo Island into 'Wednesday Island' for fan event led by Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton
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Netflix turns Cockatoo Island into ‘Wednesday Island' for fan event led by Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton
Sydney's iconic Cockatoo Island underwent a makeover on Saturday night when the cast and creatives of the Netflix hit, Wednesday, took over the historic landmark – and there were no 'normies' allowed. The former convict shipyard was renamed Wednesday Island to celebrate the release of the smash-hit series' second season, with its stars Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Gwendoline Christie and Hunter Doohan delighting diehard fans who dressed up as their favourite 'outcast' for the occasion. With a five-metre high pyre set ablaze and various interactive fan spaces to experience, Ortega – who plays titular character Wednesday Addams – walked the purple carpet to a chorus of screams. 'People tell you about the numbers of people that are watching the show and doing whatever, but it's not until you see it first-hand that it really kind of sinks in,' Ortega told at the event. Since Wednesday 's Season 2: Part 1 release on August 6, Netflix has already recorded a staggering 50 million views – and viewership is only set to soar with the release of Season 2: Part 2 on September 3. 'This is such a lovely turnout,' Hunter Doohan, who portrays Tyler Galpin, Wednesday's love interest – who turns out to be a monstrous creature, told from the purple carpet. 'I haven't been back in Australia for almost 10 years. My dad's entire family is from Australia, and so it's kind of surreal to come back and (have) this be the way I'm doing it.' A major plot twist to Season 2 was revealed at a prior Sydney press conference during which it was announced Gwendoline Christie is back from the dead as Nevermore Headmistress Larissa Weems. Like Ortega and Doohan, the British actor said she was also in awe of the fandom the show has created not just in Australia, but across the globe – and she credits director Tim Burton for this impact. 'I think it's just extraordinary. I mean, the global impact of this show is continuing to echo and reverberate around the world,' she told 'I just adore Tim. I wanted to work with Tim my entire life. There is absolutely no one else on earth like him. 'I adore his filmmaking sensibility. He's a masterful filmmaker and it's always extremely elegant and entirely original. 'But I love the tender vulnerability and humour that runs throughout all of his work. There's never been anyone ever like him.' The evening marked the conclusion of the Global Doom Tour, with Sydney its last stop after the cast and creatives visited England, Poland, Italy, France, Romania, the US, Canada and South Korea. And no one is more surprised than Burton at how embraced the series is around the world. 'You make something and you hope that anybody likes it,' the Oscar-nominated director told 'Honestly, that's the main thing. I just know that that's the most beautiful thing, is that when you make something and it connects to somebody.' Myers, who plays Wednesday's bubbly best friend on the show, said she enjoys making the series as much as people enjoy watching it. 'I just find it fun. I think you don't have to think too much to watch it. It's just enjoyable,' she said at the event. 'We have a lot of fun making it, and I'm glad that a lot of people have fun watching it.'
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Meghan and Harry announce huge Netflix news
Hallmark doesn't sell a 'Congratulations - kinda' card but maybe they should start in case Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Montecito neighbours want to send them something. On Tuesday, the couple announced they have struck a new, lesser deal with Netflix, which is a far cry from their golden handcuffs, dumptruck-of-cash-kinda arrangement they snagged in 2020. Back then the value of their Netflix marriage was pegged at a reported USD$100 million ($153 million) but in its place, this time, they have secured what The Hollywood Reporter (THR) has called a 'downgraded' arrangement that will give the company a first-look at the Sussexes' projects. In further less sunny news, the New York Times broke the news this week of previously unreported 'tensions' between the couple and the billion-dollar company over their tell-all 2022 docu-series Harry & Meghan. Step back and things are not as they were in 2020. When the duke and duchess announced the news five years ago, the New York Times hailed it as a 'megawatt' deal; now it says that the streamer is 'loosening its ties' with the couple and suggested that they 'may not have met expectations.' Back then the Sussexes proclaimed that 'Our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope'. They were a unit, a twofer, co-producers, co-stars, and an indivisible package. This time, per THR, the upbeat statement came only from the duchess, with her referring to 'My husband and I' and saying 'We're proud to extend our partnership'. Looking ahead, while Meghan's TV plate looks laddled-on bulging, Harry's appears to have only far slimmer pickings. On the upcoming slate for the Sussexes: Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within, a short documentary that both will produce about orphans in Uganda; a second season and a Christmas special of With Love, Meghan; and their adaptation of the book Meet Me At The Lake, which they have been working on for two years now. There is no director or stars attached (or even quietly mooted) and it has not been revealed if there is even a script. In all this, what is really in here for Harry? Masaka Kids sounds right up in his wheelhouse but it's a co-pro with Meghan and not feature length. And of Lake, it's hard to see a weepy romance as a natural fit for the two-tours-on-the-Afghanistan-front-line Duke of Sussex. The day after the Sussexes' new Netflix deal was revealed, the trailer for the second season of WIth Love dropped. Unlike the first season, there is no glimpse of a doting, proud Harry. (And in all fairness to the Sussexes, the reality is that Netflix has long abandoned those plump $100 million, padded deals of yore and Harry and Meghan now fall into the same basket as the Obamas and their friend Tyler Perry who also have first look deals with the platform.) Unlike back in 2020, now, the duke and duchess appear to have two-track careers. While over the last six months, Meghan set out her commercial stall with her As Ever line, putting flower sprinkles on the cultural map and generating more headlines about jam than it has enjoyed since it was invented in 6th century Sasanian Persia, Harry seems professionally adrift. He increasingly looks like a prince without a portfolio and as far has been announced, has no solo projects to his very grand name. How different a reality is this to the way the future looked for the Sussexes in 2020. Back then, when the news came they were getting into bed with Netflix, it seemed like a surefire success in the making: They could make some largely inoffensive viewing about elephants or melting glaciers and the entertainment giant could brag about having the world's most famous couple on their books. The couple's biggest success has been their pound-of-flesh, six-parter Harry & Meghan, which set records and left Buckingham Palace sorts quailing from behind a chintzy sofa. However this week revealed that Harry & Meghan was not the unabashed win it outwardly appeared, with the New York Times reporting that there had 'been tensions between Netflix and Archewell' around the project. 'The streaming giant found out about the release date of Harry's memoir Spare just a few months before the documentary series about the couple was set to debut,' the Times revealed. 'That upset some Netflix executives because the book covered some of the same ground as the series, undercutting the exclusive nature of the show.' However since then, independently, while Meghan has found her niche with With Love, Harry's forays (Heart of Invictus and Polo) have proven about as successful as his ability to keep his trousers on in Las Vegas. Widen the lens further and while the duchess stretches her entrepreneurial legs and hits her stride, having launched herself back onto Instagram (@Meghan has 4.1 million followers), releasing a new podcast (Confessions of a Female Founder) and setting up a ShopMy account to monetise her incredible style, the duke seems to have struggled to find any sort of groove. He never managed to get a podcast across the line with Spotify during the couple's two and a half year contract; his TV projects have been ratings turkeys; and in March he resigned from his own charity Sentebale along with the co-founder and trustees after a bitter falling out with the chair. Last week the UK's charity commission issued a report that 'criticised all parties to the dispute', including the duke. (The report cleared him of bullying allegations.) The father-of-two is reportedly 'utterly devastated' over the situation and he is considering setting up a new charity. He certainly appears to have the time. Outside of his mainstay charity biggie the Invictus Games, the Duke of Sussex now appears to be at sea. With no individual TV projects of his own and having cut ties with Sentebale, where does he go from here? Meghan's path now seems set - more of With Love and her plinking flowers on plates and trying to teach the world how to use crimping shears and make chutney and more selling out of her As Ever wine and jam. By contrast, Harry, despite his charm, energy and drive to do good, seems to be stuck in the work wilderness. At least, should his father King Charles ever extend even a spindly sapling of an olive branch, his calendar should be clear that week's announcement has truly set off those in the bitterly opposing Sussex factions. Supporters have been gleefully heralding the news on social media with all the gusto of Vatican bell-ringers catching sight of the second coming; detractors have been doing plenty of unseemly crowing about the reduced nature of it all.
