Playlist Hotlist
From Dumbo and Downton to decadent dining and the most devourable reads, here are your new cultural obsessions...
NEW YEAR, new wave of zeitgeisty must-sees, must-reads and must-casually-drop-into-conversations. If 2018 was the year we lost our minds over Love Island, two royal weddings and the discovery of a healthy vegan lifestyle (at least for a week or so, anyway), what will 2019 have in store? With some help from those in the know, Grazia is here to break down exactly what’s coming. So when someone turns to you with a hot tip on the latest TV show, food trend or novel, you can simply yawn and say, ‘Oh, yes, I heard about that ages ago…’
THE NIGHTS IN IN
It looks like another fantastic year for TV, with a return to Channel 4 for the excellent high-school sitcom Derry Girls (coming soon) and, on the same channel, a fourth and final series of Catastrophe starting in January. Also this month, look out for Gillian Anderson starring in Netflix’s dramedy Sex Education, , about a sex therapist and single mother.
If you still have time between the main channels, Netflix and Amazon Prime, Apple is joining the gang this summer with its first original production, The Morning Show. . Starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell, the drama goes behind the scenes on a breakfast show. Director Mimi Leder promises that ‘It deals with the #Metoo and Time’s Up movements and women in power.’
THE POPCORN FODDER Following the success of 2017’s Get Out, one of the most-anticipated movies of this year is director Jordan Peele’s followup thriller Us, out in March, which stars Lupita Nyong’o and Elisabeth Moss. The same month, Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo (with Eva Green and Colin Farrell) looks set to be visually spectacular – but can it ever compare to the original? And in the autumn, brace yourself for a movie spin-off of Downton Abbey, with Maggie Smith, Michelle Dockery and the rest. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for Hollywood details such as a fast-paced motorcar chase or a dramatic pistol shoot-out in the drawing room.
THE ANTHEM
Now recovered from her antics in the jungle, Fleur East returns to the music world this week. Her new single Favourite Thing has a tribal dance vibe and a choreography-heavy video – prepare to add it to your own list of favourite things.