Top 50 Future TV Binge List: Cannes Vets Coen Bros., Refn & Haneke Top Inaugural Chart

With TV being the new orange, it’s becoming increasing difficult to keep tabs on what our filmmaker favorite are up to and while we remain a film-centric outlet, our Top 50 TV Binge List is a monthly ranking of what we are craving for the most in the the medium. We will be sticking to upcoming TV series in the works (before they premiere) and won’t be populating the list with second seasons (although we can’t wait to see how Andrea Arnold jump with Big Little Lies) or TV shows or pilots (L.A. Confidential has got us curious). For the most part, this is a handy guide curated by those who can’t still make the distinction between film and non-film (Twin Peaks: The Return).

Possibly readied for a first look at the Cannes Film Festival and landing at the top of our list, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs might follow in the footsteps of Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake: China Girl with a tuxedo type of presentation. Production began in July of last year, and while Netflix have been mum with a release date/season, we do know that Tim Blake Nelson leads a formidable cast in this six-parter.

With her Sundance docu output of  2013’s Sundance preemed Gideon’s Army , and 2016’s Trapped, Dawn Porter returns to television with a Netflix four-hour four-part portrait — Bobby Kennedy For President, which uses utilizes rare and never-before-seen archival footage of his 83-day presidential run.

Selected as the closing item for the inaugural CannesSeries, creator Harlan Coben – the celebrated author we know for Guillaume Canet’s adaptation of 2006’s Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) will see a chunk of Safe be presented on the croisette. Consisting of eight episodes with Michael C. Hall in the lead, this centers around a disappearance and his circle of (dis)trust. No word on the directors just yet.

Nicolas Winding Refn is the gift who keeps on giving in terms of production updates on the 10 episode Too Old To Die Young for Amazon. With still some shooting remaining (scheduled shoots to still take place this summer), this naturally explores the criminal world – in what we imagine is an urban Ghost Dog like exploration of the underbelly of Los Angeles. This features several thesps including William Baldwin and Miles Teller (pictured above). This should drop in the fall and if Venice or TIFF or open to it, could be profiled there.

Quoted as saying “after ten TV movies and 12 films, I wanted to tell a longer story for once,” it is Michael Haneke who takes our fifth spot (and let’s be frank could top the list for the next two years) with Kelvin’s Book – which explores themes (reflection of the digital age and dystopia) he has previously worked on in his filmography for a ten-parter in English for FremantleMedia’s UFA Fiction. We are a long ways away, but confident that this will drop next year.

Timed for the first Monday of the month, we’ll be adding, subtracting and updating the chart below. Let us know what you think in the comment section below. Thank you for your patronage!

Rank	Title	Via	Network	# Episodes	Release	Ranking Last Month
1	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Coen Bros.		6	2018	⭑ New!
2	Bobby Kennedy For President (Doc)	Dawn Porter		4 HRS	April 27th	⭑ New!
3	Safe	Harlan Coben		8	2018	⭑ New!
4	Too Old To Die Young	Nicolas Winding Refn		10	2018	⭑ New!
5	Kelvin's Book	Michael Haneke		10	2019?	⭑ New!
6	Sharp Objects	Jean-Marc Vallee		8	Summer 2018	⭑ New!
7	Succession	Adam McKay		?	June 2018	⭑ New!
8	I Know This Much Is True	Derek Cianfrance		8	2019?	⭑ New!
9	Untitled Iron Curtain Project	Agnieszka Holland & Kasia Adamik		8	2018	⭑ New!
10	Maniac	Cary Fukunaga		10	2018	⭑ New!
11	Catch 22	George Clooney		6	2019?	⭑ New!
12	Central Park Five	Ava DuVernay		5	2019	⭑ New!
13	The Little Drummer Girl	Park Chan-wook		6	2019	⭑ New!
14	The Widow	Harry and Jack Williams		8	2019	⭑ New!
15	Chernobyl	Craig Mazin		5	2018?	⭑ New!
16	The Split	Abi Morgan		6	2019?	⭑ New!
17	Random Acts of Flyness	Terence Nance		6	2019?	⭑ New!
18	Castle Rock	J.J. Abrams		8	2018	⭑ New!
19	Hanna	Sarah Adina Smith		?	2019	⭑ New!
20	The Romanoffs	Matthew Weiner		9	2018	⭑ New!
21	Chimerica	William Oldroyd		4	2019?	⭑ New!
22	Untitled Watergate Project	George Clooney		8	2020?	⭑ New!
23	Gosta	Lukas Moodysson		8	2019	⭑ New!
24	Gangs of London	Gareth Evans		?	2019	⭑ New!
25	The Bisexual	Desiree Akhavan		?	2019	⭑ New!
26	The Gilded Age	Julian Fellowes		10	2019	⭑ New!
27	Bulletproof	Nick Love, Noel Clarke, Ashley Walters		6	2018	⭑ New!
28	The Eddy	Damien Chazelle		8	2020?	⭑ New!
29	Underground Railroad	Barry Jenkins		?	2019?	⭑ New!
30	Tong Wars	Wong Kar Wai		10	2020?	⭑ New!
31	Untitled Andrey Zvyagintsev Project	Andrey Zvyagintsev		?	2020?	⭑ New!
32	Picnic at Hanging Rock	Larysa Kondracki/Michael Rymer/Amanda Brotchie		?	2018	⭑ New!
33	$1	Craig Zobel		?	2019	⭑ New!
34	The Undoing	David E. Kelly		?	2021?	⭑ New!
35	Snowpiercer	Josh Friedman		?	2019?	⭑ New!
36	Ni Una Menos (Doc)	Larrain Bros.		8	2019?	⭑ New!
37	Reinas	Larrain Bros.		10	2019?	⭑ New!
38	AND!	Damien Chazelle		?	2020?	⭑ New!
39	A Suitable Boy	Mira Nair		8	2020?	⭑ New!
40	His Dark Materials	Tom Hooper		8	2020?	⭑ New!
41	Camping	Lena Dunham		8	2019	⭑ New!
42	The First	Beau Willimon		8	????	⭑ New!
43	Catherine the Great	Philip Martin		?	2019	⭑ New!
44	Raven	Michelle MacLaren		?	2020?	⭑ New!
45	Untitled Mobster Series	Leo Dicaprio		?	2021?	⭑ New!
46	New Delhi police Series	Richie Mehta		8	2019	⭑ New!
47	Killer Joe	William Friedkin		?	????	⭑ New!
48	Slaughterhouse-Five	Patrick Macmanus		?	????	⭑ New!
49	Bruce McNall Project	Nick Cassavetes		?	????	⭑ New!
50	2018 FIA Formula 1 (Doc)	James Gay Rees/Paul Martin		10	2019	⭑ New!