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Coming to Netflix on February 17th, Behind Her Eyes is a six-episode adaptation of the best-selling 2017 book by Sarah Pinborough and comes from the producers of The Crown. The show centres around the life of single mum Louise, who becomes entangled in a love triangle with new boss David and his wife Adele. However, […]
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It’s A Sin is the latest drama from the mind of Russell T Davies, the man behind Queer as Folk, Cucumber and the revival of Doctor Who back in 2005. It follows a group of gay men and their friends in London from 1981 to 1991, depicting how the developing HIV and AIDS crisis impacted
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A reimagining of the Italian cartoon, Fate: the Winx Saga is a coming-of-age story set in a magical boarding school where fairies learn to use and control their powers. Assigned the same dormroom, a group of 5 young girls form unlikely friendships and navigate everyday emotional traumas like love and heartbreak whilst also battling some foes along the way. We
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Star Trek Lower Decks is going forward to the next frontier – animation. Now whilst this isn’t the first animated Star Trek series, it’s certainly a different take on one and as the ship itself is all about second contacts, it feels fitting that this is the second of its kind also. Lower Decks focuses on the support crew
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On Friday, the long awaited return of the MCU arrived. But for this viewer, it was never about the return of the MCU, it was always about Wanda. First teased well over a year ago, every plot detail given WandaVision sounded more and more like a fever dream pulled from my mind. As you may have seen from our Sitcoms Top
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A Teacher is a 2020 limited series that you can now stream on BBC iPlayer in the UK. Created by Hannah Fidell who wrote and directed the 2013 film of the same name, it stars Kate Mara and Nick Robinson, focussing on an affair between a female teacher and her male student, spanning multiple years
You’ve probably been living under a rock if you haven’t heard at least one person gushing over The Queen’s Gambit, a limited series now streaming on Netflix, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. But just in case you have been living under that rock, let me add my voice to the chorus of praise – The Queens’ Gambit
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Truth Seekers is the latest collaboration from Nick Frost and Simon Pegg and centres around employees of a network services provider who run a YouTube channel as amateur paranormal investigators. The series follows Gus Roberts (Nick Frost), the top installation engineer for network provider Smyle. He lives with his dad (Malcolm McDowell) and investigates paranormal
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Industry is a new 8 episode show from HBO that will premiere on the 9th November 2020 (HBO in the United States and BBC Two in the UK). As part of London Film Festival, we were treated to a sneak peek of episodes 1,2 and 4. Set in an investment firm in London, it follows
It’s hard to express the pure joy that the first season of Ted Lasso gave me. I found myself laughing out loud, cheering, I found my eyes watering at a football match. A FOOTBALL MATCH! This is no small feat. From Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town) comes the story of Ted Lasso (Jason Sudekis, co-creator)
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This was first written in January 2014. There is an update at the end of the article. After watching a documentary about the show, I was inspired to re-watch The Munsters. This was a successful American television show that aired for 2 seasons from 1964-1966 on CBS. In the early 1960’s Universal sold the rights
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The first few minutes of episode 1 were posted online just a few days before season 2 landed on Netflix, and managed to cause quite a stir (well, with me anyway). All of the siblings were now in the sixties, but things once again aren’t quite right. War has broken out on the streets of
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In this colourful historical-revisionist drama set during Hollywood’s Golden Age, several aspiring filmmakers (actors, actresses, a writer and director) largely from a variety minority groups and backgrounds set out to fulfil their dream of “making it big” in the glittering City of Stars.Their controversial project – which they struggle to get green-lit, financed, produced and
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is one of the new shows from NBC’s 2020 slate. Debuting at the start of the year in the US, here in the UK we’ve been a few weeks behind, with our most recent episode currently streaming on All4, ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Glitch’. The concept of the show is silly, and the tone of
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Locke and Key has one of the most interesting and out there premises currently showing on TV – in my humble opinion. After their father’s murder, the 3 Locke children move with their mother to their fathers’ ancestral home in Matheson Massachusetts; Key House. As it turns out, this is a rather magical house – or rather it contains several magical
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