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This week on Bingewatch, Ian and Hannah go from 40,000 feet up to six feet under to bring you the biggest new releases on UK streaming platforms, including...

Austin Butler (Elvis) stars as a World War II airman risking his life with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss and triumph in Apple TV's Masters of the Air.

The prequel series nobody asked for, as Paramount Plus tell the origin story of Ray Winstone's Sexy Beast starring Sarah Greene, James McArdle and Tamsin Greig.

The savvy and ambitious Colombian businesswomen Griselda Blanco creates one of the most profitable cartels in history in new Netflix crime drama Giselda, starring Sofia Vergara and Karol G.

Forty years after, through the eyes of those directly involved, The Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain explores the bitterly divisive strike that wounded the soul of the nation, and it's available to watch on Channel 4.

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Welcome to Bingewatch+ where we bring you some extra special bonus content alongside your usual weekly roundups.

On this episode, Hannah is joined by Douze Points' Steven Perkins and Fay Greaves, one of the stars of The Traitors in its first series.

They discuss what the experience was like, who would be a good replacement for Claudia Winkleman (though we know she's irreplaceable), and what Fay really thinks of this year's batch of traitors and faithfuls.

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Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando review the some of the biggest new shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 19th January 2024.

In 1850s Australia, 15 years after the events of Oliver Twist, Jack Dawkins' past returns to haunt him, as he moves back to the world of crime after leaving behind pick-pocketing to become a surgeon in The Artful Dodger on Disney Plus.

Ten of Ireland's most sought-after comedy stars are brought together to make each other laugh, using every tool in the box, without cracking a smile themselves. Hosted by Graham Norton, this is LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland on Prime Video.

In a dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated, Izi and Benji fight to navigate the world as residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to abandon their home, and it's on Netflix.

Explorer Simon Reeve is back from his round the world trip, and now the BBC are plonking him into the Wilderness. See what he gets up to in Wilderness with Simon Reeve on BBC Iplayer.

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Murder. Mayhem. Mops (and plenty of them). This week has it all! Ian and Hannah review some of the biggest new shows across UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 12th January 2024, including...

Maya Lopez's ruthless behavior in New York City catches up with her in her hometown, and now she must face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots and embrace the meaning of family and community in Marvel spin-off series Echo on Disney Plus.

A young married couple's life turns upside down after secrets are revealed about each other's past in Prime Video thriller Role Play.

An anonymous phone call draws two brilliant detectives into a confrontation over an old murder case; one, Cush Jumbo, is a young woman in the early stages of her career, and the other, Peter Capaldi, is a well-connected man determined to protect his legacy in Apple TV+ thriller Criminal Record.

When an unidentified man was found dead in an underground car park after a devastating flood, PC Joanna Marshall is commissioned to investigate the truth of the man's death in ITV police drama After the Flood.

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This week on Bingewatch, Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando review some of the biggest new releases of the week beginning Friday 4th January 2024, including:

James May continues his travel adventures on Amazon Prime Video in Our Man in India.

The hit reality game show in back, as Claudia Winkleman returns to front series two of The Traitors UK on BBC iPlayer.

Sarah Lancashire returns to Now TV in the new series of culinary drama Julia.

Amanda Holden and Alan Carr team up once again to flip houses in Tuscany, in BBC iPlayer's Amanda and Alan's Italian Job.

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As we sign off the year and give you some festive highlights to binge in our absence, Ian, Hannah and the whole Bingewatch team want to wish you the happiest of holidays!

This week's reviews include...

If you like Bad Santa, you'll probably like Now TV's The Heist Before Christmas, except in this film, everyone hates Christmas.

There's nothing like a good ol' Post Office scandal dramatisation to make you feel like a Brit at Christmastime, so just as well for Mr Bates vs The Post Office on ITVX.

Sheridan Smith goes to a remote island in the Pacific and finds a way to use her credit card before mysteriously vanishing. We think the loan sharks got her ... *tumbleweed* ... but find out for yourself by watching The Castaways on Paramount Plus.

Sister Boniface is back on UKTV Play, and this time with a new Christmas special, The Star of the Orient.

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See you in 2024!

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Get your jingle bells outs, because we're feeling festive at Bingewatch! Ian and Hannah review the biggest new shows on UK streaming platforms, including...

Adapted from Alice Hunter's book of the same name, drama The Serial Killer's Wife stars Annabel Scholey, Jack Farthing and Angela Griffin and it's on Paramount Plus.

Percy Jackson has been through a lot, and now he has to rescue Zeus' lightning bolt in the Disney Plus series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

The Bad Education has been given a Christmas special, aptly named Bad Education: A Christmas Carol, and it's coming to BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.

It is the festive season, and Rob and Romesh are heading to magical Lapland, where the duo will care for reindeer, help write letters, and meet Father Christmas to learn what it takes to truly become an elf. Rob & Romesh vs Lapland is on Now TV.

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This week on Bingewatch, Ian and Hannah review more big new releases on UK streaming services, including...

Platform 7 is a British four-part psychological thriller based on the 2019 novel Platform Seven by Louise Doughty, and it's on ITVX.

The trials and tribulations of modern dating play out in Now TV's new series Smothered.

Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, Apple TV's John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial features exclusive eye witness accounts and previously unseen crime footage.

The Famous Five get a fresh new look on CBBC and BBC iPlayer, putting a modern take on Enid Blyton's classic stories.

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This week on Bingewatch we have nostalgia, Christmas, witches and dolls, as Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando review the biggest new shows on UK streaming services this week.

Eddie Murphy is the hapless neighbour whose deal with a magic elf brings the 12 days of Christmas to life in Prime Video's Candy Cane Lane.

Based on Elisabeth MacNeal's novel, The Doll Factory is a Victorian period drama about a porclain doll painter who aspires to become an artist.

A neurosurgeon discovers she's the heir to a family of witches. Classic. Maufair Witches is available on BBC iPlayer now.

It's one of the most iconic albums of all time, so it's only right that on its 40th anniversary, Michael Jackson's thriller gets its own documentary. Thriller 40 is on Showtime and Paramount Plus.

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This week on Bingewatch we have Christmas, we have suspense, and we have Carey Grant. What's not to love? Featuring review of the newest stuff on UK streaming platforms, including:

Jason Isaacs stars as Cary Grant in biogrpahical ITVX drama Archie alongside Laura Aikman, Jason Watkins and Kara Tointon.

You can never just find a haul of drugs on a remote island with no strings attached, can you? Daisy Haggard and Paterson Joseph find out the hard way in BBC iPlayer's Boat Story.

Hot off the heels of Ted Lasso and hosting the Eurovision Song Contest, Hannah Waddingham was the obvious choice for Apple TV Plus' Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas.

We loved the series, and now we get the real life game as the hotly hyped Squid Game: The Challenge arrives on Netflix.

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