SEASON six of The Good Doctor comes to M-Net 101 tonight at 7. As Shaun (Freddie Highmore) becomes a surgical resident at St. Bonaventure Hospital’s surgical unit, he faces more responsibility and pressure. He must deal with an attack on the hospital, new residents, and Lea’s high risk pregnancy, while navigate relationships to become a good leader and dad so that he can maintain his now stable life.
The series has been renewed for a seventh season.
This Thursday at 10pm, crime drama The Hunt for Raoul Moat follows the police operation in 2010 to apprehend fugitive Raoul Moat. He went to Northumbria after killing one person and wounding two others. Moat was known to police: he’d been arrested 12 times and charged with seven offences, though only one resulted in a conviction. On 1 July 2010, he left jail after an 18-week sentence for “low level assault” on a nine-year-old relative. By 1.30am on 10 July, Moat was dead. Read more here.
Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) drives black comedy-drama series Lucky Hank, from Friday at 8pm. The synopsis for this show, which. has 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, reads: “An English department chairman at an underfunded Pennsylvania college, Professor Hank Devereaux walks the line between midlife crisis and full-blown meltdown, navigating the offbeat chaos in his personal and professional lives.”
In the season premiere of And Just Like That…(Monday, July 17 at 9pm), Charlotte’s daughter Lily declares she is ready to lose something while an interesting list is being circulated over lunch. Things getting steamy between Miranda and Che. Meanwhile, Carrie reunites with Aidan.
There’s a great review here. The Daily Beast says “Carrie, like all the women on the Sex And The City reboot, needs to drop the self-hatred and take a page from Samantha’s book: Women of all ages are sexy.” Thank you. She Knows reports that when the reboot series And Just Like That… came along, [Kim] Cattrall was not invited to join. “I was never asked to be part of the reboot,” she told Variety. “I made my feelings clear after the possible third movie, so I found out about it like everyone else did – on social media.” This time around, she merely makes a cameo appearance, so don’t hold your breath for any kind of improvement in the series. Read about the behind the scenes drama between her and SJP here.
Award-winner Helena Bonham Carter is a tour de force in Nolly, a drama based on the true story about a British icon. Follow the reign and fall from grace of the inimitable soap star Noele Gordon, from Wednesday, July 19 at 10pm. Gordon played Meg Mortimer in long-running soap Crossroads from 1964 to 1981.
“Though dewier than her real-life equivalent was in 1981, Bonham Carter gets much of the Gordon detail right: the clipped accent, the staccato delivery, the priceless, almost imperceptible head turn – unique to Crossroads players – which signified the soap was cutting to another ad break,” says Variety. “Most skilfully, within a single episode, she sketches a relentless, potentially exhausting creative personality, bristling to exert whatever control she could over a world that clearly regarded older women as disposable.”
Already airing is The Suspect (Tuesdays at 10pm), a police procedural in which doctor Joseph O’Loughlin, who appears to have the perfect life and a successful career as a clinical psychologist, but nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. “Aidan Turner cranks the creepiness up to 11 in fun, sadistic thriller,” headlines The Guardian, adding “The man formerly known as Poldark is back, in clothes, as a psychologist called on to help solve a murder case – until he starts stroking the corpse in the morgue.”
