Tv Watch List For November 2024

Rivals (season 1)

Rivals is a television series made for Disney+. It is an adaptation of the 1988 Jilly Cooper novel of the same name. It stars an ensemble cast including David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Katherine Parkinson, Lisa McGrillis, Alex Hassell, Emily Atack and Danny Dyer.

Synopsis
Set in the fictional English county of Rutshire, Rupert Campbell-Black (Hassell) and Lord Tony Baddingham (Tennant) have a rivalry that seeps into the world of the Corinium television station.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (season 1)

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is set in Night City, a self-reliant metropolis located in the Free State of California that suffers from extensive corruption, cybernetic addiction, and gang violence. The city is split into six districts, each of which has its own precise living requirements, and is controlled by several megacorporations, including Arasaka and its rival Militech. The anime’s story is primarily set in Santo Domingo, the oldest, poorest, and most industrial district of Night City, and takes place in 2076.

Plot
In a dystopia overrun by corruption, crime, and cybernetic implants, an impulsive but talented street kid named David Martinez, after losing everything he has in a drive-by shooting, chooses to survive on the wrong side of the law as an “edgerunner”: a high-tech, black-market mercenary also known as a “cyberpunk”.

Ancient Apocalypse (season 1 & 2)

Ancient Apocalypse is a Netflix series, where the British writer Graham Hancock presents his pseudoarchaeological theories about an advanced civilization during the last ice age, which he believes was destroyed by a natural cataclysm around 11,900 years ago. The episodes feature Hancock visiting archaeological sites which he claims show evidence of this lost civilization and its influence on later cultures worldwide, and natural sites which he believes are evidence of a cataclysmic meteor strike. He repeatedly claims that archaeologists are ignoring or covering up the evidence.

Archaeologists and other academics describe Hancock’s claims as lacking evidence and many of them as easily disproven. A statement from the Society for American Archaeology condemned the theories presented as having a “long-standing association with racist, white supremacist ideologies” and accused Hancock of “wilfully seeking to cause harm to […] our profession in the public eye”. Non-academic reviewers generally also found the claims unconvincing and criticized Hancock’s diatribes about ‘mainstream archaeology’ as one-sided and evocative of conspiracy theories. Some experts featured in the first series complained that footage of them was presented in a misleading way.

The first season of the series, produced by ITN Productions, was released on Netflix in November 2022. A second season, featuring actor Keanu Reeves alongside Hancock, was released in October 2024.

Synopsis
In the series, Hancock argues that there was an advanced civilization during the last ice age. He speculates that it was destroyed around 11,900 years ago by sudden climate change during the Younger Dryas cool period, but that its few survivors taught agriculture, monumental architecture and astronomy to primitive hunter-gatherers around the world. Hancock does not accept that the earliest known civilizations could have arisen independently, and argues that they all came from one advanced ice age civilization. He attempts to show how several ancient monuments and myths are evidence of this, and claims that archaeologists are ignoring or covering up this alleged evidence. It incorporates the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which has been comprehensively refuted, and which attributes climate change to an impact winter caused by a massive meteor bombardment.

Scavengers Reign (season 1)

The series follows the survivors of the damaged interstellar cargo ship Demeter 227 who are stranded on Vesta, an alien planet bustling with flora and fauna but filled with dangers. Initially the survivors are separated into three groups: Azi and her robot companion Levi, Sam and Ursula, and the isolated Kamen, who travels with a telepathic creature named Hollow. Over time all their paths converge towards the crash-landed Demeter.

Slow Horses (season 4)

Slough House is an administrative purgatory for MI5 service rejects who have seriously failed a task but have not been sacked. Those consigned there are known as “slow horses”, a play on “Slough House”. They are expected to endure dull, paper-pushing tasks, along with occasional mental abuse from their miserable boss, Jackson Lamb, who expects them to quit out of boredom or frustration. Life in Slough House is defined by drudgery. Yet the slow horses somehow get involved in investigating schemes that endanger Britain.

Citadel (season 1)

Eight years ago, Citadel fell. The independent global spy agency – tasked to uphold the safety and security of all people – was destroyed by operatives of Manticore, a powerful syndicate manipulating the world from the shadows. With Citadel’s fall, elite agents Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh had their memories wiped as they narrowly escaped with their lives. They’ve remained hidden ever since, building new lives under new identities, unaware of their pasts. Until one night, when Mason is tracked down by his former Citadel colleague, Bernard Orlick, who desperately needs his help to prevent Manticore from establishing a new world order. Mason seeks out his former partner, Nadia, and the two spies embark on a mission that takes them around the world in an effort to stop Manticore, all while contending with a relationship built on secrets, lies, and a dangerous-yet-undying love.

Citadel: Diana (season 1)

In 2030 Milan, an undercover agent for the global spy agency Citadel is trapped behind enemy lines as a mole in the powerful enemy syndicate Manticore.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (season 2)

Set thousands of years before the events of the novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, the series is based on the author’s history of Middle-earth. It begins during a time of relative peace and covers the major events of Middle-earth’s Second Age: the forging of the Rings of Power, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the fall of the island kingdom of Númenor, and the last alliance between Elves and Men. These events take place over thousands of years in Tolkien’s works but are condensed for the series.

History of the world part 2 (season 1)

History of the World, Part II is an American sketch comedy limited television series written and produced by Mel Brooks, Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, and David Stassen. The series serves as a sequel to the 1981 film written and directed by Brooks, with sketches parodying events from different periods of human history and legend.

Kaos (season 1)

The all-powerful yet insecure god Zeus starts to fear his end of reign once he notices a wrinkle on his forehead, possibly indicating the end of the world. He becomes paranoid and vengeful towards his devotees. Meanwhile, three humans start to discover their connections with each other and grand conspiracies involving the Greek gods.

Terminator Zero (season 1)

Set in 1997 in Tokyo, Malcolm Lee has been developing the AI system Kokoro that is intended to compete with Skynet. A day before Judgment Day, Lee finds himself and his three children pursued by an unknown robot assassin, and a mysterious soldier from the year 2022 has been sent to protect him.

The Umbrella Academy (season 4)

The fourth and final season of the superhero comedy drama television series The Umbrella Academy was released on Netflix on August 8, 2024, and consisted of six episodes. Created for television by Steve Blackman and developed Jeremy Slater, the series is an adaptation of the comic book series of the same name written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series. The season focuses on the Umbrella siblings tracking down a girl named Jennifer, while a group known as The Keepers try to activate the “Cleanse”, which will end the world to reset the timeline.

Solar Opposites (season 4 & 5)

Solar Opposites – The series centers around a family of aliens from a better world who must take refuge in middle America. They disagree on whether Earth is awful or awesome.

Brassic (season 2 & 3)

Brassic is a British comedy-drama television series created by Joe Gilgun and Danny Brocklehurst for Sky One and became Sky’s most successful comedy series in seven years. The series follows the lives of Vinnie O’Neill and his friends in the fictional town of Hawley. Other primary cast members include Michelle Keegan, Damien Molony, Tom Hanson, Aaron Heffernan, Ryan Sampson, Parth Thakerar and Steve Evets.

Inside No. 9 (season 1)

Inside No. 9 is a British black comedy anthology television programme that first aired on 5 February 2014. It is written by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith and produced by the BBC. Each 30-minute episode is a self-contained story with new characters and a new setting, almost all starring Pemberton or Shearsmith (usually both). Aside from the writers, each episode has a new cast, allowing Inside No. 9 to attract a number of well-known actors. The stories are linked only by the number 9 in some way, typically taking the form of a door marked with the number 9, and a brass hare statue that is in the background of all episodes.[1] Themes and tone vary from episode to episode, but all have elements of comedy and horror or perverse humour, in addition to a plot twist. Pemberton and Shearsmith took inspiration for Inside No. 9 from an episode of Psychoville, a previous project, which was filmed in a single room – this in turn was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope.

Lucifer (season 1)

The series focuses on Lucifer Morningstar, a powerful angel who was cast out of Heaven for his rebellion and forced to spend millennia punishing people as the lord of Hell. Bored and unhappy with his life in Hell, he abdicates his throne in defiance of his father (God) and moves to Los Angeles, where he runs his own nightclub. When he finds himself involved in a murder investigation, he meets Chloe Decker, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who intrigues him as she is the first human to be immune to his charms. After helping the police solve the case with his most commonly used power—manipulating humans into revealing their deepest desires to him—Lucifer accepts a subsequent invitation to work continuously with Chloe as a police consultant. Throughout the series, they encounter countless supernatural beings while solving crimes together and developing their relationship.

Mortimer and Whitehouse gone fishing (season 1)

The show’s origins lie in Mortimer’s triple heart bypass surgery and Whitehouse, like Mortimer, having had heart problems that were only detected at the last minute. Whitehouse was talking to Mortimer’s wife, Lisa about Bob’s recovery from the operation; he discovered that Mortimer wasn’t going out anymore and so Whitehouse invited him to go fishing with him. Mortimer enjoyed it; describing it later, he said “I’ve never felt anything like it.” “There comes a moment when you realise that you’ve said nothing for an hour and a half. I haven’t thought about anything else. I haven’t worried about the past, or future.” It wasn’t until a later date that Mortimer discovered it had all been a “ruse to get me back into life” that Whitehouse had been conspiring with Lisa. The fishing trips worked and brought Mortimer out of his trough, and then Whitehouse had the idea for the show. They thought there might be the chance to make a humorous and informative programme that was beyond “two old blokes going fishing”. Whitehouse described the pitch for the show as combining the real-life jeopardy of their medical conditions, two old friends who had had a reprieve, and the timeless wonder of the English countryside.

Schitt’s Creek (season 1)

The wealthy Rose family — video store magnate Johnny (Eugene Levy), his wife and former soap opera actress Moira (Catherine O’Hara), and their pampered adult children David (Dan Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy) — lose their fortune after being defrauded by their business manager. They move towards rebuilding their lives with their sole remaining asset: a remote town named Schitt’s Creek somewhere in Canada, which Johnny bought for David’s birthday in 1991 as a joke.

The Roses are forced to relocate to Schitt’s Creek, moving into two adjacent rooms in a run-down motel. While the family adjusts to their new lives, their well-to-do attitudes conflict with the town’s more provincial residents, including mayor Roland Schitt (Chris Elliott), his wife Jocelyn (Jenn Robertson), and their son Mutt (Tim Rozon), the motel’s clerk Stevie Budd (Emily Hampshire), town council members Ronnie Lee (Karen Robinson) and Bob Currie (John Hemphill), veterinarian Ted Mullens (Dustin Milligan), and Jazzagal member and Café Tropical waitress Twyla Sands (Sarah Levy).