Here are all the Prime Originals launching this month, giving subscribers something to look forward to every Friday in Januworry.
James May: Our Man in Japan | 3 January 2020
Fifteen years after James May first visited Japan as a baffled tourist, he embarks on a quest to understand the unique, extraordinary and complex country. The birthplace of the haiku and classical art forms driven by the principles of Wabi (stark beauty) and Sabi (natural inspiration) and Yugen (grace and subtlety), Japan is also the place that’s given us Godzilla, Hello Kitty, Cosplay, and some of the strangest obsessions on the planet.
James will embark on an epic journey across all of Japan from North to South, determined to understand why this unique land and its people are the way they are, what drives their whole culture and what their approach to life can teach the rest of us. James can’t speak the language, he is clueless about Japanese etiquette, but at least he knows there’s a small tree called a banzai…
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Jayde Adams: Serious Black Jumper | 3 January 2020
This British comedian is the winner of the 2014 Funny Women award and 2016 nominee for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, with a sell-out show at the Edinburgh Fringe, and in this stand-up special she addresses modern-day feminism. This may sound fairly dour, but the rising star is anything but. She used to be an Adele impersonator, for one thing. She’s officiated weddings on a bouncy castle at Glastonbury, for another. We may not be able to make it to her upcoming five-star show at the Soho Theatre in London called The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face, but at least we get an hour of her in this stand-up special.
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Treadstone | 10 January 2020
From the producers of the Bourne franchise, the series explores the origin story and present-day actions of Operation Treadstone, the infamous, covert CIA Black Ops programme that uses behaviour modification to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins. Jeremy Irvine is in the lead role.
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Rob Delaney: Jackie | 17 January 2020
This stand-up special recorded at the Hackney Empire in London unpacks the horror and the joys of Rob’s life in London. These include swimming in tea, unearthing scammers, being a father and a husband, witnessing the rise of the sexbots… and dealing with the disappearance of his friend Jackie.
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Star Trek: Picard | 24 January 2020
Sir Patrick Stewart will be reprising his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, decades after leaving his original role on Star Trek: Next Generation, in a series to be released in 2020. Picard is in the next chapter of his life – and it’s not at Starfleet.
