The Weekly List (31 October – 6 November)

New and returning world dramas

The Good Detective S1 Netflix 01/11/2020
Voice S2 Netflix 01/11/2020
Can You Hear Me? S2 Netflix 02/11/2020
Love & Anarchy S1 Netflix 04/11/2020
Paranormal S1 Netflix 05/11/2020
Fear by the Lake MS3 Walter P. 06/11/2020
Trackers S1 Sky Atlantic 06/11/2020
Wasteland S1 Walter P. 06/11/2020

New and returning British and US dramas

When Calls the Heart S6 Netflix 31/10/2020
Godfather of Harlem S1 StarzPlay 01/11/2020 [*]
Perfect Harmony S1 FOX UK 01/11/2020 [*]
Baskets S4 FOX 02/11/2020
CripTales S1 BBC4 02/11/2020 [*]
Black Monday S2 Sky Comedy 03/11/2020 [*]

For shows marked with a [*] scroll down the page for more details and links to trailers where available.

Continuing subtitled dramas (TV only)

DNA S1 BBC4 Sat Ep. 3 & 4 (of 8)
The Same Sky S1/LS More4 Fri Ep. 3 (of 6)

Other continuing world dramas (First run TV only)

Hudson & Rex S1 Alibi Sun Ep. 5 & 6 (of 13)
Mr. Inbetween S1 FOX UK Thu Ep. 3 & 4 (of 6)

New and returning world dramas – details

The Good Detective S1 Netflix 01/11/2020
“When doubts rise about a five-year-old murder conviction, a veteran detective partners with a young hotshot to hunt down the case’s hidden truths”. Korean drama.

Voice S2 Netflix 01/11/2020
“A deft detective whose wife is killed by a serial murderer teams up with a rookie cop, a gifted voice profiler dealing with her own father’s murder”. Korean drama.

Can You Hear Me? (M’entends-tu?) S2 Netflix 02/11/2020
“Three friends in a low-income neighborhood find humor and hope in their lives as they grapple with bad boyfriends and their dysfunctional families”. French language drama from Canada which is marketed as a Netflix Original series.

Love & Anarchy S1 Netflix 04/11/2020
“A married consultant and a young IT tech kick off a flirty game that challenges societal norms — and leads them to re-evaluate their entire lives”. Netflix Original series from Sweden.

Paranormal S1 Netflix 05/11/2020
“After a skeptical hematologist is plunged into a series of inexplicable events, he unwillingly becomes the go-to-guy for paranormal investigations”. Netflix Original series from Egypt.

Fear by the Lake (Peur sur le lac) MS3 Walter P. 06/11/2020
“A mysterious and mortally contagious virus threatens the inhabitants of Annecy”. Third in the series of French crime drama miniseries: after Vanished by the Lake and Killer by the Lake.

Trackers S1 Sky Atlantic 06/11/2020
“Action series featuring various stories of organized crime, diamond smuggling, Black Rhinos, the CIA and terrorism in Cape Town, South Africa”.

Wasteland (Pustina) S1 Walter P. 06/11/2020
“In a remote village where everyone knows each other, a girl goes missing under suspicious circumstances”.

A reminder, if you’re not a member already, that we have a Facebook group with discussion threads set up for you to discuss these shows and many other world dramas.

New and returning British and US dramas – details

Godfather of Harlem S1 StarzPlay 01/11/2020
“A gangster named Bumpy Johnson makes his way in Harlem during the 1960s”. A TV prequel to the 2007 film, ‘American Gangster’, which centered on the criminal enterprise of Frank Lucas.

Perfect Harmony S1 FOX UK 01/11/2020
“An Ivy League professor becomes the director of a rural church choir”.

CripTales S1 BBC4 02/11/2020
“Each film is a fictional monologue capturing a life-changing moment for a person with disabilities”.

Black Monday S2 Sky Comedy 03/11/2020
“Comedy based on the Wall Street financial crash in 1987, following a group of outsiders who took on the world’s largest financial system”.

A reminder, if you’re not a member already, that we have a Facebook group with discussion threads set up for you to discuss these shows and many other British and US dramas.

Subtitled film list (BBC, Channel 4 & Film 4)

Happy End (France, 2017) Sun, BBC4
My Pure Land (UK/Pakistan, 2017) Tue/Wed, Channel 4

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