This week on the TV Gold podcast Andrew Mercado and James Manning review:

The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix, movie)
Hostage (Netflix, 5 episodes)
The Rainmaker (Stan, 10 episodes)
Alone Africa (Stan 10 episodes)

• The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix, movie)
The much-anticipated film based on Richard Osman’s first crime novel. The four members of the The Thursday Murder Club are Helen Mirren as ex-spy Elizabeth, Ben Kingsley is ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim, Pierce Brosnan is ex–union activist Ron, and Celia Imrie takes on the role of ex-nurse Joyce.

• Hostage (Netflix, 5 episodes)
TV Gold favourite Suranne Jones stars as the newly elected British Prime Minister Abigail Dalton, whose husband is kidnapped while he is working overseas. Julie Delpy features as the French president, Vivienne Toussaint, who is visiting the UK while grappling with her own political problems including being blackmailed over a sex scandal.

• The Rainmaker (Stan, 10 episodes)
Based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham. The plot features Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan), who is fresh out of law school. He gets an internship at a major law firm, but manages to get sacked on his first day after a run in with the boss (John Slattery). He can’t find work anywhere else except for a small time ambulance chasing law firm run by a woman called Bruiser (Lana Parrilla).

• Also mentioned this week is Alone Africa, as the American series of the franchise move from SBS to Stan.

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