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TV critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake share their TV reviews. Plus, Andy Riley, writer of Year of the Rabbit and Veep. Plus it’s Scott’s 30th birthday so we celebrate in understated style. And also test his knowledge of TV shows that started in the same year as him – 1989. Seinfeld anyone? Meanwhile, Hayley reveals some excellent intel on how to see a giant squi...

Critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake share their TV reviews. Plus Mobeen Azhar on his true crime documentary Hometown and Freddie Flintoff on Top Gear. Want to have your say? Tell us on the Must Watch blog or email MustWatch@bbc.co.uk .

Rob Lowe joins Nihal to talk about Lincolnshire cop drama, Wild Bill on ITV – and rumours of a reboot of The West Wing.

Critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake to share their reviews of Wild Bill – a cop drama set in Lincolnshire and starring Rob Lowe, which none of us can quite believe... plus 63 Up, the documentary series that returns to the same cast every seven years to catch up with them…and Tales of the City is back – though we weren’t aware it had actually gone anywhere. Plus,...

Critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake share their TV reviews as Killing Eve and Black Mirror return. What show does Hayley say has “all great ingredients” but made a “terrible cake”? Which series does Scott think should maybe not have returned? And as Love Island comes back – do we still care about the shenanigans in the villa? Want to have your say? Tell us on the...

Joe Dempsie joins Nihal to talk about the Game of Thrones finale, and joining Deep State on Fox.

Mat Horne – Gavin, from Gavin and Stacey - speaks exclusively to Must Watch's Nihal Arthanyake about the surprise return of the beloved show for a Christmas Special. How long has he been keeping the secret? What spoiler does he drop? Will he still fit into those polo shirts? You’ll have to listen to find out… Want to have your say? Tell us on the Must Watch blog or email MustWatch@bbc.co.uk .

Critics Scott Bryan, and Hayley Campbell join 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake share their TV reviews. Plus Alex Lanipekun talks Riviera, and Tom Cullen talks Knightfall We also talk bike insurance and contents insurance – yep – and it turns out Hayley once had to attend a police line up of bikes to retrieve her stolen cycle. Scott reaches peak BBC by cycling a fold-up bike into New Broadcasting House....

Critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake on the week’s biggest new TV and streaming shows. It’s an end of the era as the Game of Thrones juggernaut shudders to a halt, but does the finale live up to expectations (we’re spoiler free until 56:40, so if you don’t want to know what happens, make sure you don’t listen beyond that). Madonna performed at Eurovision and it’s...

Must Watch critics Scott Bryan, Hayley Campbell and guest-host Laura Whitmore share their TV reviews. Plus, Russell T Davies & Ruth Madeley talk about Years and Years. This week, we’re talking about The Society on Netflix, and Years and Years on BBC One. We clean up the BAFTAs after Scott’s late night of rubbing shoulders with all the celebs. Hayley reveals she’s the head of the Julia Davis fa...

Critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake review the week’s big new TV including the return of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, In Sight of Home: The Iolaire, and one of the darkest (literally) episodes of Game of Thrones ever. Plus they’re joined by Superintendent Ted Hastings himself, Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar and Sabrina’s Chance Perdomo. Want to have your say...

This episode is a spoiler free zone. Must Watch’s Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join 5 Live’s Colin Paterson to share their TV reviews. Plus Daisy Haggard is in the studio to talk about her role in Back to Life. Even though Winter is Coming, Nihal takes a well earned break and leaves Colin Paterson in the hot seat. We chat through Game of Thrones, and what episode 2 has to offer. Plus, Line of D...

Scott Bryan, Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake have all watched episode 1 of Game of Thrones season 8. Gemma Whelan (Yara Greyjoy) and John Bradley (Samwell Tarly) join us to chat about the final few episodes. We also manage to remain relatively spoiler-free. Jamie East from Sky Atlantic’s Thronecast is also with us to not tell us anything he can’t. Meanwhile, Katy from our team is ne...

TV critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake share their TV reviews. Plus Alex Kingston talks about her role in The Widow. Nihal reveals he is the Jay-Z of confectionery…he thinks. We introduce a new category for our shows – we now have “not a must watch”, “a must watch” and “an okay watch”…strong content. Alex Kingston talks about her role in The Widow on ITV. She tel...

TV critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join 5 live’s Nihal Arthanayake to talk about the week’s biggest new TV and streaming shows. They review a new documentary going behind the scenes of Brexit with the BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuennsberg Netflix go up against the BBC with their major new nature documentary series Our Planet, with narration from Sir David Attenborough. YouTube star Mimi...

TV Critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell, and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake, share their TV reviews of Line of Duty series 5, and The Case Against Adnan Syed. Plus, Martin Compston joins the team to talk about his role of DS Steve Arnott in Line of Duty. We’re also joined by Amy Berg, the director of The Case Against Adnan Syed and Rabia Chaudry - a family friend of Adnan Syed who originally brough...

Scott Bryan, Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake share their TV reviews. Plus, Jason Isaacs and Kingsley Ben-Adir talk about their roles in The OA (Part 2). On today’s pod - Pose, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCan, The OA (Part 2) and Harry’s Heroes: The Full English where Harry Redknapp gets old (and possibly slightly out of shape) former England footballers and gets them to play Ge...

Critics Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Sam Walker share their TV reviews. Plus, Ricky Whittle talks about his role in American Gods, and Katherine Kelly about Cheat. We burn through LOADS of TV recommendations for you including The OA, Broad City and Three Identical Strangers. What do you think we should be watching – email us anytime: mustwatch@bbc.co.uk . Also today – we learn that...

Michael Jackson’s nephew Taj talks to Nihal Arthanayake about a new Channel 4 documentary, Leaving Neverland. The film features two men who allege they were abused by Michael Jackson as children. Taj says his uncle is being unfairly accused. Nihal’s interview with Leaving Neverland’s director Dan Reed, is available as a separate episode of Must Watch.

Scott Bryan, Hayley Campbell and Nihal give their reviews of Derry Girls, Fleabag, Home and Leaving Neverland. Plus, it's a guest fest - Lisa McGee is the writer of Derry Girls and she tells us all about Season 2 - and whether Protestants are taller than Catholics. And Youssef Kerkour, who plays a Syrian refugee that smuggles himself into the UK in "Home" tells us about how hard he's researched hi...

Critics Scott Bryan, and Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake share their TV reviews. Plus – it’s a Partridge-fest as Alan returns to the BBC for the first time in decades. Scott is being as non-spoilerific as usual, and he has a new email. Meanwhile, Hayley is just two weeks away from telling us why on earth she was in America a few weeks ago…she’s so mysterious. And we had a team photo...

Welcome to a Must Watch podcast special. Nihal talks to filmmaker Dan Reed, who has made the Michael Jackson documentary Leaving Neverland. Dan talks about making the film, and hearing from Wade Robson and James Safechuck. He says this will be a turning point in the story. Want to have your say? Tell us on the Must Watch blog or email MustWatch@bbc.co.uk .

Welcome to a Must Watch podcast special – Laura Whitmore speaks to Tan France from Netflix’s Queer Eye, ahead of season 3 dropping in March 2019. Tan talked about self-love, confidence and what to expect from Season 3. Laura’s seen it. Her boyfriend cried. It’s all very emotional. Oh, and whose accent has changed the most?! Find out. We always want your opinions and comments – start a conversation...

Buzzfeed TV Editor Scott Bryan, critic Hayley Campbell and lovely Laura Whitmore share their TV reviews. Plus, we love Connie Britton, did you know Scott’s running a marathon? Hayley thinks she might be horrible – oh and she lived in Australia for a while. And do award ceremonies work on TV? And the team give their five recommendations of shows you Must Watch this week. Want to have your say? Tell...

Buzzfeed TV Editor Scott Bryan, critic Hayley Campbell and 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake share their TV reviews of The Umbrella Academy, Dating #NoFilter and Baptiste Scott and Hayley talk to Ellen Page and Tom Hopper about The Umbrella Academy. Tom gives the inside info about the superhero muscle suit he wore for the role, and the Twitter account which has been set up as a fan page for his arms. Ell...