Caroline Proust and Thierry Godard complete their series-long runs as the cops Laure and Gilou, while Clara Bonnet joins the cast as a new investigating magistrate, in the show’s rough parallel to the “Law & Order” formula. ( Discovery+, Monday) ‘Spiral’įrance’s gift to the police-procedural genre begins its eighth, and final, season. Particularly alluring, though, is this two-part documentary featuring the noted thespian and orangutan groupie Judi Dench, who is irresistible, whether describing her first sight of true jungle (“it is like flying over broccoli”) or introducing her companion in life and adventure travel, the conservationist David Mills (“I’m here with my chap”). The newest streaming behemoth, Discovery+, debuts Monday with a library of more than 55,000 episodes of nonfiction TV as well as new nature series with hosts as disparate as David Attenborough and David Schwimmer. In a provincial town in Spain, a cow gives birth to a human baby (“Nobody puts this on Instagram until we know what it’s all about,” the mayor announces) and then things start to get weird. Modern TV’s big tent may not be as full of interesting curiosities as it could be, but there was room for this bit of wackadoodlery from the horror-meister Álex de la Iglesia (“The Day of the Beast”). He created this warmhearted series and stars in it as Walter, the father in an immigrant family in 1980s East London in Season 3, Walter’s mother, previously present only on the phone from Sierra Leone, arrives for a visit. While Steve McQueen won deserved acclaim this year for dramatizing the lives of London’s West Indian immigrants in the film anthology “ Small Axe,” Idris Elba has been quietly making folksy situation comedy out of the lives of the city’s West African immigrants for years. Miranda Hart’s 2009 British comedy “Miranda” had an unmistakable influence on “Fleabag.” Now it has inspired a straightforward American remake, with Mayim Bialik in Hart’s role as the awkward, talkative woman who has her own small business (here a cat cafe) and a mother (Swoosie Kurtz), who’s obsessed with her daughter’s lack of a boyfriend. This chronological listing of programs to look forward to in the first two months of 2021 includes a blend, comfortingly or distressingly recognizable, of new shows and old favorites (and a major new streaming service, Discovery+).Īll dates subject to change. After a historically awful year, you can take it as either bewildering or reassuring that television steams ahead on a mostly steady course, providing familiar entertainment amid the vast disruptions of politics and the pandemic.
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