Bingewatch

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 8th November 2024, including: A continent steeped in beauty and intrigue, from the polar wilderness of Siberia to the coral seas of the Indian Ocean, this is David Attenborough's Asia on BBC iPlayer. A century after Shackleton’s Endurance sank beneath the ice, explorers uncover t...

Ian goes solo this week, reviewing the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 1st November 2024, including: In 1960s Liverpool, Brian Epstein encounters a rock band that would take the world by storm. Starring Blake Richardson, Midas Man is on Amazon Prime Video. Four flight attendants work, live, and commit espionage in the classic drama about...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 25th October 2024, including: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band offer the most in-depth look ever at the creation of their legendary live performances, including footage of band rehearsals, backstage moments, rare archival clips and personal reflections from himself in Road...

This week's episode of Bingewatch dives into the exciting new releases hitting streaming platforms on October 18, 2024, including: Dapper, charming Barry is hiding a secret – but it's not what his wife suspects. Mr Loverman is Bernardine Evaristo's life-affirming story about being true to yourself, starring Lennie James on BBC iPlayer. In 1980's England, a rivalry between two powerful men finally...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 11th October 2024, including: Unlikeable, divisive – innocent? The jury is going to hate them, the media will judge them, but justice isn't a popularity contest. Twisting, gripping legal drama Showtrial turns for series two on BBC iPlayer. When an intriguing novel appears at the b...

Ian, Hannah, and a special guest review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 4th October 2024, including: Terry Gionoffrio (Julia Garner, Ozark) dreams of fame and fortune in New York City, but after suffering an injury, an older, wealthy couple welcomes her into their home in Bramford. However, disturbing circumstances soon have her seco...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 27th September 2024, including: Can accidental detective John 'Ludwig' Taylor crack the biggest puzzle of his life - finding his missing brother? Ludwig is a new cryptic comedy drama with David Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin, on BBC iPlayer. When Will Ferrell finds out his close...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 20th September 2024, including: Watch the transformation of Oswald Cobblepot from a disfigured nobody to a noted Gotham gangster, in DC origin story The Penguin, on Sky Atlantic and Now TV. Riding the coattails of Scoop, Prime Video's A Very Royal Scandal follows `Newsnight' journ...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 13th September, including: Join the trio for one last road trip as Jeremy Clarkson, James May & Richard Hammond take three cars they've always wanted to own on an emotional adventure through Zimbabwe. Watch The Grand Tour: One For The Road on Amazon Prime Video. In Vogue: The...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 6th September 2024, including: When a lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can even begin - with a body discovered just hours before the ceremony - everyone in the wedding party is a suspect. Nicole Kidman stars in The Perfect Couple on Netflix. Kansas City police officer Sha...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 30th August 2024, including: A darkly comedic and contemporary reimagining of Greek mythology, exploring themes of gender politics, power, and life in the underworld; six humans learn that they are component parts of an ancient prophecy in Kaos, starring Jeff Goldblum, on Netflix....

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 23rd August 2024, including: Think you know everything about England’s first foreign manager Sven-Göran Eriksson? Think again. Sven is the stranger-than-fiction story, and a poignant farewell, from one of football’s most unpredictable characters, available on Amazon Prime Video. "...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 16th August 2024, including: A former Miami Police Department member turned health inspector, Andrew Yancy (Vince Vaughn), investigates a case involving a human arm; he navigates through eccentric characters and unexpected challenges, all while dealing with his own personal strugg...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 9th August 2024, including: Rory (Matt Damon) and Cobby (Casey Affleck) are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. However, when it goes awry, they team up to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss in Apple TV original movie The Instigators. A night...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 2nd August 2024, including: Following his departure from The Commonwealth, Daryl Dixon washes ashore in France, raising the ire of a splintered but growing autocratic movement centered in Paris and endangering a young boy at the heart of a benevolent religious movement, in this ne...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 26th July 2024, including: An unpredictable journey through time and space with a ragtag group of thieves and their newest recruit: an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin. Together, they set out on a thrilling quest to save the boy's parents, and the world in Apple TV+ series Tim...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 19th July 2024, including: Rome, 79 A.D.: The population—bored, restless, and increasingly violent—is kept in line by two things: free food and spectacular entertainment. As the taste in entertainment becomes more jaded and bloodthirsty, a stadium designed for gladiatorial combat...

This is Bingewatch, where journalists Ian and Hannah review the biggest and best new stuff on UK streaming platforms. On this episode, for the week beginning Friday 12th July 2024: Everyone's favourite sausages - Frank (Seth Rogan), Brenda (Kristen Wiig), Barry (Michael Cera), and Sammy (Edward Norton) - attempt to build their very own food community in Amazon Prime Video's animated series from th...

Ian and Hannah review another batch of new releases available on UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 5th July 2024, including: In Melbourne, three family members at different stages of life, experience love, loss and the complexity of family relationships in Love Me on UKTV Play. Tiffany “Rex” Simpson (Emma Roberts) has always dreamed of going to space, and her “doctored” applicat...

Ian and Hannah unpick the latest batch of new film and television pleasures, available on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 28th June 2024, including: When TV presenter Douglas makes an ill-advised joke, the consequences threaten to derail his life. Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan star in Steven Moffat’s punchy comedy drama Douglas is Cancelled on ITVX. Serving as a love letter...

Ian and Hannah bring you reviews of the biggest and best new content on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 21st June 2024, including: Tracing the humble beginnings of a band that would go on to set the record for the biggest audience ever for the BBC's Live New Year's Eve Broadcast and perform on top of Buckingham Palace, Before We Was We: Madness by Madness is available on ITVX....

Journlists Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando review the biggest and best new content on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 14th June 2024, including... Superheroes are often as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and sometimes even as revered as gods. But that's when they're using their powers for good. What happens when the heroes go rogue and start abusing their...

Ian and Hannah review the newest and biggest shows to hit UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 7th June 2024, including... In 1972, Karl Lagerfeld, 38, was a ready-to-wear designer still unknown to the general public. Then he ventured into battle with his friend and rival Yves Saint Laurent, genius of haute couture, supported by businessman Pierre Bergé. Daniel Brühl is Becoming Ka...

Ian and Hannah review the newest and biggest releases on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 31st May 2024, including: Set in London's beating heart of music, Camden on Disney+ reveals the untold stories of how the lives and careers of some of the world’s most iconic artists were influenced by this corner of London. Through archival footage, observational filming, and interviews, w...

Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando review the biggest new shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 24th May 2024, including: The Beach Boys on Disney+ is a celebration of the legendary band that revolutionized pop music, and the iconic, harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream, captivating fans for generations and generations to come. Romesh, Jamie, Mica...