A wide range of awards season contenders is on its way to your TV for streaming right into your living room.
Amazon Prime Video
Available from 26 November 2020 is the comedy-drama ‘Uncle Frank’, a ‘road movie’ focusing on a gay man who must face his past, with Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code) in the leading role and Margo Martindale (August: Osage County) in support.
Netflix
Olivia Colman (The Night Manager) returns as Queen Elizabeth II (succeeding Claire Foy and preceding Imelda Staunton) for the fourth series of the operatic royal family drama ‘The Crown’, debuting on 15 November 2020. Both Foy and Colman have won Golden Globes and Primetime Emmy nominations (Foy won for the second series) for their interpretations of the head of state while Helena Boham Carter (Burton and Taylor) and Tobias Menzies (Outlander) received Golden Globes nominations for their turns as Princess Margaret and Prince Philip, respectively, from the third series.
Will the fourth series win Colman, Bonham Carter and Menzies, as well as creator, writer and executive producer Peter Morgan (Longford) their first Emmys next year? Who knows, but we do know that strong competition will come in the form of Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Josh O’Connor (The Durrells) as Prince Charles and Erin Doherty (Call the Midwife) as Princess Anne as the Crown enters the Eighties. God Save the Queen.
Disney+
Kate Winslet (The Reader) provides the voice of the eponymous horse in ‘Black Beauty’ debuting on 27 November 2020. Based on Anna Sewell’s 1877 novel of the same name, this latest adaptation features Mackenzie Foy (The Nutcracker and the Four Realms) as the girl whom forms the magical bond of a lifetime with the horse of the title. All you have to do is stream.
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
