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Showtime<br />
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MONDAY, JULY 3, <strong>2017</strong><br />
DT<br />
TV shows to watch in <strong>July</strong><br />
• Showtime Desk<br />
Are you planning to be<br />
enamoured by thrilling and<br />
colourful TV shows this month?<br />
So are the cable and streaming<br />
services.<br />
Here is a list of five TV shows<br />
to check out in <strong>July</strong>, ranging from<br />
period drama to horror thriller.<br />
The Strain S4<br />
Release Date: <strong>July</strong> 16<br />
This FX series is for those horror<br />
fans who are craving a different<br />
kind of take of the genre.<br />
Created by Guillermo del Toro<br />
and Chuck Hogan, this graphic<br />
novel-inspired horror series<br />
depicts a world where a vampiric<br />
viral outbreak risks wiping out<br />
humanity as we know it.<br />
advisor who secretly relocates<br />
his family to the Missouri Ozarks<br />
when his dealings with a drug<br />
cartel go wrong. Created by<br />
Bill Dubuque (The Judge, The<br />
Accountant), Ozarks could be an<br />
intriguing reverse of Breaking<br />
Bad. Starring Jason Bateman and<br />
Laura Linney, this crime drama<br />
has the potential to be the series<br />
that could scratch the traditional<br />
crime drama itch for the summer.<br />
The Last Tycoon<br />
Release Date: <strong>July</strong> 28<br />
This Amazon Prime’s showbiz<br />
drama portrays a war in 1930s<br />
Hollywood between the<br />
wunderkind studio executive<br />
Monroe Stahr, and his mentor<br />
and current head of the studio,<br />
Pat Brady.<br />
Developed by Billy Ray (Secret<br />
in Their Eyes) and adapted from F<br />
Scott Fitzgerald’s posthumously<br />
published novel, The Last Tycoon<br />
could be a potential standout<br />
this summer as it is one of the<br />
lone period piece series currently<br />
airing. Besides, who wouldn’t<br />
want to see Matt Bomer, Lily<br />
Collins, Kelsey Grammer and<br />
Rosemarie DeWitt in 1930s<br />
fashion?•<br />
Ozark<br />
Release Date: <strong>July</strong> 21<br />
This Netflix release drama series<br />
follows a Chicago-based financial<br />
Game of Thrones S7<br />
Release Date: <strong>July</strong> 16<br />
This fan-favorite fantasy series<br />
needs no introduction. Over the<br />
course of its six seasons, Game<br />
of Thrones has tapped into the<br />
cultural zeitgeist. Based on George<br />
RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire<br />
book series, Game of Thrones<br />
charts the rise and fall of families<br />
and kingdoms in the mythical<br />
Westeros, as one after another<br />
fights for the Iron Throne. With<br />
this seventh season, everything<br />
the last six seasons has been<br />
building towards is finally coming<br />
to a boil.<br />
Will<br />
Release Date: <strong>July</strong> 10<br />
This drama depicts the lost<br />
years of young William<br />
Shakespeare after his arrival<br />
to London in 1589, when<br />
theatre was at its peak. A<br />
young William, played by<br />
Laurie Davidson, with a dream<br />
changed the world with his<br />
words. The drama series is<br />
written by Craig Pearce (Strictly<br />
Ballroom, Moulin Rouge!) and<br />
directed by Shekhar Kapur<br />
(Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The<br />
Golden Age), appears to be<br />
an enjoyable romp through<br />
Elizabethan England.<br />
Tanjina Toma to<br />
perform in Kolkata<br />
• Showtime Desk<br />
Rabindra sangeet singer<br />
Tanjina Toma is going to<br />
perform at the Satyajit Ray<br />
Auditorium of Rabindranath<br />
Tagore Centre in Kolkata on<br />
<strong>July</strong> 5, where she has been<br />
invited by the Indian Council<br />
for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to<br />
perform.<br />
Toma will sing selected<br />
songs of Tagore that the<br />
Nobel prize winning poet<br />
wrote during his stays in<br />
erstwhile East Bengal – the<br />
current Bangladesh. Titled<br />
Abar Esechhe Asar, the songs<br />
selected for the show are on<br />
themes like rain, devotion,<br />
love. Some of these tunes are<br />
kirtan and baul influenced,<br />
which Tagore absorbed during<br />
his long writing spells in the<br />
rural areas of Bangladesh.<br />
“I am privileged to be<br />
invited by ICCR to sing<br />
on the same stage where<br />
I along with a team from<br />
Bangladesh performed in 2008<br />
at the inauguration of the<br />
Rabindranath Tagore Centre,<br />
in the presence of the then<br />
India’s Minister for External<br />
Affairs, Shri Pranab Mukherjee<br />
and the Chief Minister of<br />
West Bengal Shri Buddhadeb<br />
Bhattacharjee,” Toma said.<br />
Tanjina Toma has gained<br />
considerable popularity in<br />
India over the last several<br />
years, with her impressive<br />
performances in various stages<br />
and television channels in<br />
Kolkata and Tripura. Three of<br />
her solo albums were released<br />
from Kolkata’s leading audio<br />
houses: ‘Jibon Kotha’ from<br />
Cozmik Harmony; ‘Tumi O<br />
Ami’ from Saregama (formerly<br />
HMV); and most recently<br />
‘Tomar Shonge’ from UD<br />
Series.<br />
Toma also revealed that<br />
she is currently working on<br />
an album with Hindustan<br />
Records, the pre-eminent<br />
record company which<br />
was inaugurated by<br />
Rabindranath Tagore himself<br />
in 1932. The album will be<br />
released marking the death<br />
anniversary of Tagore this<br />
year. •
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