The golden age of TV is set to continue in 2014! Despite not having the time to see all the box sets you got for Christmas, Elysium Magazine looks at the big TV shows for this year.
Hostages
Remakes of hit Israeli TV dramas are all the rage and the latest is this twisty thriller series from CBS. It stars Toni Collette as a Washington DC surgeon blackmailed by rogue terrorists: she must assassinate the US president when she operates on him or her family will be killed. Sounds like one to watch!
It’s the new: Homeland
January on Channel 4
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The super funny Andy Samberg of Saturday Night Live and Lonely Island fame gets his own sitcom vehicle: a cop show spoof meets workplace comedy from the writing team behind the brilliant Parks & Recreation.
Samberg stars as Jake Peralta, a cocky, wise-cracking detective with the best arrest record in Brooklyn’s 99th precinct – until he gets a hard-ass new captain. Queue jokes galore!
It’s the new: Police Squad!
January on E4
Fleming
Dominic Cooper stars as dashing Bond creator and real-life spy Ian Fleming in the imaginatively titled, super-stylish and mini-series Fleming. Lara Pulver plays his love interest and this no-holds-barred, four-part biopic proves that Fleming’s real life was nearly as thrilling as 007’s fictional one.
It’s the new: The Hour
February on Sky Atlantic
The Musketeers
BBC1 kicks off the year with a new-look Saturday night line-up combining swashbuckles and swords. The Voice is back for its revamped third series, while The Musketeers is an action-packed take on Alexandre Dumas’ classic story, with Peter Capaldi on ‘tache-twirling form as villainous Cardinal Richelieu – pitched somewhere between Capaldi’s other two guises, the Doctor and Malcolm Tucker.
It’s the new: Atlantis
January on BBC One
True Detective
This epic HBO drama stars craggy A-listers Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana cops Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, leading a 17-year hunt for a serial killer. Yes one serial killer. With Blairy Witchy twigs, stag antlers and strange things being done to dead bodies in the woods, this is widescreen horror at its most unsettling.
It’s the new: Hannibal
February on Sky Atlantic