The 5 New and Under-the-Radar TV Shows You Can’t Miss In November
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This month will be full of some tough decisions. Should I or should I not eat the leftover Halloween candy? And if I do decide to eat it, should I go for the Swedish fish or the Hershey’s bar? And what TV show should I watch while I debate these extraordinarily important topics?
That’s where we come in. This month we will be covering Part 1 of the sixth and final season of Netflix’s The Crown (November 16th), the fifth installment of FX’s Fargo (November 21st) starring Don Draper and Keeley Jones, the new Apple TV+ series The Buccaneers (November 8th) which is based on Edith Warton’s unfinished final novel, and so much more.
With the state of the world increasingly distressing, we remain forever thankful for the respite and entertainment TV provides. Here are the five new shows you can’t miss this month.
Black Cake
Stars: Mia Isaac, Adrienne Warren, Chipo Chung, Ashley Thomas, Lashay Anderson, Faith Alabi, and Glynn Turman
Premiere Date: The first three episodes premiere November 1st on Hulu. Followed by one new episode every Wednesday until the finale on December 6th.
Based on the best-selling book by Charmaine Wilkerson, this eight-episode series, which counts Oprah Winfrey among its executive producers, bounces back and forth through time as the show’s central mystery slowly unravels. One storyline follows a young Covey growing up in Jamaica. The other follows Covey’s son and daughter decades later in California as they try to understand their mother’s mysterious past and why their mother, who they knew as Eleanor Bennett, kept her childhood a secret. The first episode ends with a big reveal that will surely compel you to keep watching.
All the Light We Cannot See
Stars: Aria Mia Loberti, Nell Sutton, Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger, and Marion Bailey
Premiere Date: All four episodes premiere November 2nd on Netflix
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name by Anthony Doerr, the four-episode limited series tells the story of Marie-Laure, a blind girl living in Paris with her father Daniel (Mark Ruffalo). During World War II, they leave Paris to live with her great Uncle Etienne (Hugh Laurie) in the seaside town of Saint-Malo. They are hiding a coveted diamond from the Nazis while Marie-Laure begins secret radio transmissions. Newcomers Aria Mia Loberti and Nell Sutton play the younger and older versions of Marie-Laure. The novel was adapted for the screen by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) and all four episodes are directed by Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Free Guy, The Adam Project).
JFK: One Day in America
Premiere Date: All three episodes premiere November 5th at 8 p.m. on National Geographic. The episodes will be available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu on November 6th.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Those who were working in Dallas on that fateful day in November 1963 are now all in their 80s or older. The docuseries weaves archival footage, some colorized for the first time, along with in-depth and poignant interviews. Among those interviewed are Associated Press reporter Peggy Simpson, Dallas police officer Rusty Robbins, and Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent assigned to protect the First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy. The episodes set the context for that tragic day showing us smaller moments like the President and his wife at a breakfast in Fort Worth that morning. “I have a sense of guilt. I should have been able to do more than I did,” Hill says. Six decades later, JFK: One Day in America packs an emotional wallop as it reveals things even the most ardent history buff might not know.
Colin From Accounts
Stars: Harriet Dyer, Patrick Brammall, Emma Harvie, Helen Thomson, Genevieve Hegney, Michael Logo, and Tai Hara
Premiere Date: The first two episodes premiere November 9th on Paramount+, followed by a new episode every Thursday until the finale on November 30th.
Don’t be fooled by the title. This Australian series is not, in fact, about someone in the finance department pestering you about your delinquent payment. Instead, the eight-episode series follows the relationship between brewery owner Gordon (Patrick Brammall) and medical student Ashley (Harriet Dyer), who are brought together by the most unlikely of circumstances. To say more than that or tell you who Colin is would spoil the very fun reveal. Brammall and Dyer, who are married in real life, also wrote and executive produced this charmingly offbeat series.
NCIS: Sydney
Stars: Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar, Tuuli Narkle, Mavournee Hazel, and William McInnes
Premiere Date: November 14th at 8 p.m. on CBS
Like Colin From Accounts, this new NCIS entry is another series from the land of Down Under. The series, which will debut in Australia on November 10th, is the first international version of the incredibly popular NCIS franchise and the fifth one overall (additional iterations are set in Hawaii, Los Angeles, and New Orleans). It will air in the Tuesday at 8 p.m. time-slot that successfully housed the mothership series for many years. The series, which will have eight episodes in its first season, will also stream on Paramount+ the day after air. In the premiere, NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey (Olivia Swann) and Australian Federal Police Sergeant JD Dempsey (Todd Lasance) investigate the death of a U.S. Seaman on a nuclear submarine in Sydney Harbour.
Amy Amatangelo, the TV Gal®, is a Boston-based freelance writer and a member of the Television Critics Association. She wasn’t allowed to watch much TV as a child and now her parents have to live with this as her career. You can follow her on Twitter (@AmyTVGal).
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