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Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 16th January 2026, including: When a lavish country house party ends in murder, a witty young aristocrat sets out to solve the mystery in Netflix's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, starring Martin Freeman. Idris Elba moves from a plane to a train in the action-packed s...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 9th January 2026, including: Freedom isn’t always on the outside. Teaching in prison, Dan obsesses over his own choices and confronts his turbulent past. Waiting for the Out is the provocative new drama on BBC iPlayer. Meet the Fendons – an oddball little family who happen to have...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services over Christmas 2025, including: A determined bookstore owner in Tulsa moonlights as an investigative journalist, digging into local corruption, but when his reporting uncovers sinister connections, he must protect both his family and the truth. Ethan Hawke stars in Disney Plus series The Lowdown . Simon's perf...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 12th December 2025, including: Six divorce support group members shift from seeking healing to plotting revenge. Their shared pain creates an unexpected alliance, turning therapeutic meetings into something more sinister, in Paramount+ original series The Revenge Club . A Formula...

Last week, on Thursday 4 December, EBU members met for the organisation’s scheduled General Assembly. At this meeting, Spanish broadcaster RTVE, along with seven other countries, called for a secret ballot on Israel’s participation, passing the threshold of five members required for the vote to take place. However, the EBU chose to tie this vote to its proposed new rules for the contest, creating...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 5th December 2025, including: In 1850s Washington, two families led by powerful matriarchs — one wealthy, one poor but deeply loyal — battle for supremacy on the lawless frontier in Netflix Western The Abandons . A recently retired English professor (Jane Seymour) discovers a knac...

In nearly seventy years of the Eurovision Song Contest, no country has ever won by performing second. Coincidence? This week, Steven crunches the numbers to find out, and the results might surprise even the nerdiest of Eurovision fans! . Mentioned in this episode: Serteb Erener - ‘Everyway That I Can’ (Turkey, 2003): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_QrKnqd5E   Marie N - ‘I Wanna’ (Latvia, 2...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 28th November 2025, including: Two down-on-their-luck, hourly workers team up to rob a posh London department store on Christmas Eve. Will they steal each other's hearts along the way? Get your early festive fix with Jingle Bell Heist is on Netflix. Alan Carr has been bitten by th...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 21st November 2025, including: Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) lives all of his years in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, working on the land, helping to create a new world at the turn of the 20th century in Netflix movie Train Dreams . Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey retu...

This week, Steven is joined by the wonderful Dude Points - https://dudepoints.fun/ - to break down one of the biggest letdowns in Eurovision history... The American Song Contest of 2022. What was it? Why did it happen? And why didn't it work? Join us and find out. . If you love Eurovision as much as we do, don't forget to connect with us on social. DM us on Twitter at @Bingewatch_Pod and join our...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 14th November 2025, including: An author (Claire Danes) has receded from public life since the death of her young son, unable to write, a ghost of her former self; but she finds an unlikely subject for a new book when the house next door is bought by Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys) in...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 7th November 2025, including: Presenting the story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him. Michael Shannon and Nick Offerman lead an all star cast in Netflix's Death by Lightning . Saxon outla...

If 1956 was the Eurovision first started, then 1957 is the year it really started to figure out what it was, says Steven, as he deep dives into the the 2nd Annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was a year when precedents were set, when rules were tested, and when the scoreboard was just Dave the Intern changing numbers on the big board, nervously sweating because he said he passed it at school but he...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 31st October 2025, including: Vicky McClure returns as the Afghan war vet turned bomb disposal extraordinaire, in season three of the popular ITVX thriller Trigger Point . When a child goes missing in the aftermath of a house explosion, a concerned neighbour teams up with a privat...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 24th October 2025, including: Ben Stiller tells the story of his comedic parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, in this personal new documentary feature on Apple TV - Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost . A forensic psychologist investigates cold-case murders after returning to h...

Austria has a unique record at Eurovision - being the only country to receive null points but never finish last. Want to know how? Listen to part two of our history of Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest, taking you from 1992 to the present day. And if you haven't already, listen to part one here: https://pod.fo/e/337a64 . Mentioned in this episode: Sanna Nielsen - ‘Undo’ (Sweden, 2014): https:...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 17th October 2025, including: Examining how Scorsese's colorful life experiences informed his artistic vision, in new Apple TV documentary series, Mr. Scorsese . When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of m...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 10th October 2025, including: When a lone U.S. marshal's jurisdiction is turned upside down after a prison transport plane crashes in the remote wilderness, setting free dozens of violent inmates, he begins to suspect the crash was not an accident in Apple TV original series The L...

In what has become a Douze Points tradition, Steven kicks off our 2026 season proper, with a look back at the history of the previous winner. In this case, it's Austria's turn under the spotlight, and in part one we look at its first Eurovision in the 50s, through to 1991. . Mentioned in this episode: Nicole - ‘Ein bißchen Frieden’ (Germany, 1982): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp_b-095yPc Valen...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 3rd October 2025, including: A wayward school bus driver and a dedicated teacher battle to save 22 children from an inferno, in white knuckle thriller The Lost Bus on Apple TV, starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera. Leaving behind a lucrative career voicing radio commer...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 26th September 2025, including: A small-town cop suspects that the local school for troubled teens and its dangerously charismatic founder may not be all it seems., in Netflix drama Wayward . In 1868, the Guinness family patriarch is dead in Dublin; his four children, each with da...

This week, breaking from our scheduled programming, we are addressing the big news circling the Eurovision world at the moment. With four countries currently confirming their withdrawal if Israel participate next year, questions remain over how the EBU will respond, whether Israel themselves will act, and the future of Eurovision itself. . If you love Eurovision as much as we do, don't forget to c...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 19th September 2025, including: Recorded during the show’s West End run, Fawlty Towers: The Play will air on U in September to mark the 50th anniversary of the classic sitcom’s first ever episode. Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon return for the most explosive season yet of A...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 12th September 2025, including: Cricket hero Freddie Flintoff and his teen team of unlikely lads face their biggest sporting challenge yet. But has Freddie bitten off more than he can chew? Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams: Ultimate Test is on BBC iPlayer. Laura's picture-perfec...

In this episode, part of the 2025 Eurovision Podcrawl, Steven is joined by friends of the show Adrian Bradley and AJ Clay, to discuss the year Azerbaijan put itself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Loreen secured one of the easiest wins in Eurovision history, and, well... Engelbert Humperdink. If you love Eurovision as much as we do, don't forget to connect with us on social. DM us on T...