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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 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...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest and sauciest new shows coming to UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 17th May 2024, including: Jules is unrelenting in his pursuit of Kelly's father, claiming that Paul assaulted him, while Kelly's previous comments trigger Jules' obsession with Charlie's masculinity. But his attempts to intervene in his son's relationships enrage Charlie in Chann...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest and best new shows across UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 10th May 2024, including: One desperate week, two dangerous lives. In 1980s Romania, the president's right-hand man is a secret Soviet spy - and his cover is about to be blown. Tense Cold War thriller Spy/Master comes to BBC iPlayer. Podcasters set out to investigate the mysterious disa...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest and best new content on UK streaming platforms, for the week beginning Friday 3rd May 2024, including... During the dissolution of the monasteries in the Tudor era, Matthew Shardlake (Arthur Hughes) is sent by Thomas Cromwell (Sean Bean) to investigate the death of a commissioner in a remote town of Scarnsea, in Disney Plus original series Shardlake. When real est...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new film & TV to hit UK streaming services for the coming week, beginning Friday 26th April 2024, including: Two teenage ghosts work alongside a clairvoyant to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele, until a powerful witch complicates their plans, in new Netflix series Dead Boy Detectives. Jing Lusi and Richard Armitage star in a race against time at...

Ian and Hannah review some of the biggest new releases on UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 19th April 2024, including: Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, based on the novel “Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer, is directed by directed by Gus Van Sant, Max Winkler and Jennifer Lynch, in the second installment of Ryan Murphy’s aw...

Ian and Hannah take a look at some of the biggest new releases on UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 12th April 2024, including: Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout (on Prime Video) is the story of haves and have nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, a peaceful denizen from a cozy fallout shel...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new series and films to hit UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 5th April 2024, including: Private detective John Sugar (Colin Farrell) investigates the disappearance of Olivia Siegel, the beloved granddaughter of Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel. As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he unearths Siegel family secrets, old and new...

Ian and Hannah review all the biggest and best new shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 29th March 2024, including: Renegade Nell on Disney+ This Town on BBC iPlayer STEVE! on Apple TV A Gentleman in Moscow on Paramount+ Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more. Rememb...

In this ever-so-slightly later released episode, Ian and Hannah round up the best new TV & films on UK streaming services, for the week beginning Friday 22nd March 2024, including: Kristen Wiig fronts new Apple TV series Palm Royale. Jake Gyllenhaal takes the baton from Patrick Swayze in Prime Video's remake of Road House. Video game spin-off series Twisted Metal on Paramount, and From the mak...

Ian and Hannah review the biggest new shows on UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 15th March, including: Part historical fiction, part conspiracy thriller, Edwin Stanton delves into the aftermath of the first American presidential assassination-and the fight to preserve and protect the ideals that were the foundation of Lincoln's Reconstruction plans, in Apple TV's Manhunt. Kerry...

Ian and Hannah reconvene to review the biggest new shows on UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 8th March 2024, including... The story of the Countess of Buckingham, who moulded her son to seduce King James I and become his all-powerful lover through intrigue, making her family richer, more titled, and more influential than England had ever seen, in Now TV's Julianne Moore starrer...

From Dick Turpin to council estates, Ian and Hannah bring you reviews of the biggest and best new releases across UK streaming platforms, including: Rob Beckett's Smart TV puts team captains Alison Hammond and Josh Widdicombe and a host of familiar faces to the ultimate test with trivia-laden rounds that will reveal who has the biggest TV knowledge of all, on Now TV. As Detective Jeb Pyre investig...