New streaming TV series - Summer 2024

 Here  quick overview of the TV series to be aired during the summer of 2024 

Land of Women (APPLE+) ; June 26 

Inspired by the novel 'La Tierra de las Mujeres'

Eva Longoria is Gala, an affluent New Yorker whose life is turned upside down when her husband fails to repay a debt to the wrong people. With dangerous criminals on the lookout for her family and her now-deceased husband, Gala is forced to leave town with her mother Julia (Carmen Maura) and teenage daughter Kate (Victoria Bazúa) All three head to their mother's hometown in northern Spain--a place from which Julia had fled 50 years earlier--to start life anew and hope that their identities remain hidden. But gossip in the small town quickly spreads, revealing their family's deepest secrets and truths.

CAST : 

Eva Longoria (Gala) 

Victoria Bazua (Kate)

Santiago Cabrera (Amat)

Carmen Maura (Julia)

The veil (HULU) ;June 26 - 6 Episodes 

 Is an international espionage thriller series about a potentially deadly game of truth and lies as two women travel from Istanbul to Paris and London, with one of them possessing a secret the other must uncover.

CAST : 

Elisabeth Moss (  Imogen Salter, a veteran MI6)

Yumna Marwan ( Adilah El Idrissi)

Dali Benssalah ( Malik Amar, french intelligence, DGSE) 

Josh Charles (Max Peterson, a CIA agent).

My Lady Jane (PRIME VIDEO); June,27 - 8 Episodes 

An epic tale of true love, high adventure, manic regicide, unabashed heroism, devious intrigue, sword fighting, a dash of magical realism and a smattering of desire, jokes and undeniable chemistry. 

An alternate history centered on Lady Jane Grey, "nine-day Queen", a Tudor noblewoman who briefly claimed the English and Irish thrones in 1553.

CAST: 

Emily Bader (Lady Jane Grey)

Edward Bluemel  (Lord Guildford Dudley)

Anna Chancellor (Lady Frances Grey)

Jordan Peters  (King Edward VI)

Rob Brydon (Lord Dudley)

Dominic Cooper (Lord Seymour)

Supacell (NETFLIX); June,27 - 6 episodes 

In South London, a group of regular people suddenly develop superpowers, and the only obvious connection between them is that they are all black; as they deal with the impact of their powers on their day-to-day lives, one man must bring them together.

CAST:

Tosin Cole (Michael Lasaki)

Nadine Mills (Sabrina) 

Eric Kofi-Abrefa (Andre)

Calvin Demba (Rodney)

Josh Tedeku (Tazer) 

Adelayo Adedayo (Dionne) 

                               A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (BBC); July, 1 - 6 episodes 

                                                      

Inspired by the book  "Guide to the Murder of a Good Girl."  written by Holly Jackson. 

Pip Fitz-Amobi, a brilliant woman, is not sure that student Andie Bell was murdered by her lover Sal Singh five years ago. The two must figure out how far they are willing to protect Pip from the risk of discovering the truth if Sal Singh turns out not to be the killer.

CAST: 

Emma Myers (Pip Fitz-Amobi)

Zain Iqbal (Ravi Singh) 

India Lillie Davies (Andie Bell)

Asha Banks (Cara Ward)

Henry Ashton (Max Hastings)

Yali Topol Margalith (Lauren Gibson)

Mathew Baynton (Elliot Ward)

Raiko Gohara (Zach Chen)

Emperor of ocean park (MGM+) June 14 - 4 episodes  

Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen L. Carter

It follows Talcott Garland, whose quiet existence is shattered by the death of his father. Mariah Denton, a former journalist and conspiracy theory enthusiast, questions the manner of his death and thinks he was the victim of murder.

CAST: 

Tiffany Mack (Mariah Garland)

Grantham Coleman (Talcott Garland)

Forest Whitaker (Giudice Oliver Garland)

Henry Simmons (Addison Garland)

Those who are about to die (PEACOCK/PRIME VIDEO); July 18 - 10 episodes 

This series follows the gladiatorial contests of ancient Rome and the corrupt nature of the business of entertaining the masses.

CAST:

Anthony Hopkins (Vespasian)

Dimitri Leonidas  (Scorpus)

Jojo Macari (Domitian Flavianus)

Gabriella Pession (Antonia)

Iwan Rheon  (Tenax)

Sara Martins-Court (Cala)

The Decameron (NETFLIX) ; July 25 

In 1348 during the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in human history, explores current themes of class systems, power struggles and survival in a time of pandemic. ( Millenial, Covid version)

CAST: 

Zosia Mamet (Pampinea)

Saoirse-Monica Jackson (Misia)

Tanya Reynolds (Licisca)

Amar Chadha-Patel (Dioneo)

Leila Farzad (Stratilia)

Lady in the lake (APPLE+); July 19 

In 1960s Baltimore, an investigative journalist working on an unsolved murder clashes with a woman working to advance the agenda of the city's black community. The protagonist ditches her doting husband and big Pikesville home to pursue a career as a newspaper reporter. She becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery of two separate killings: eleven-year-old Tessie Fine and a bartender named Cleo Sherwood

CAST: 

Natalie Portman as (Maddie Schwartz)

Moses Ingram as (Cleo Sherwood)

Y'lan Noel as (Ferdie Platt)

Mikey Madison as (Judith Weinstein)

Sean Ringgold as (The Prophet)

Brett Gelman as (Milton)

Noah Jupe as (Seth)