Our conversations about British TV energy industry thrillers turns to the two American remakes released at the turn of the 2010s

State of Play (2009)

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Our thoughts on Wes Anderson's feature debut, Bottle Rocket, in which the Owen brothers play friends who want to be gangsters and there's a large side helping of romcom

Bottle Rocket

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More Doctor Who What Iffery, this time concentrating on the question of whether America should be making, or should have made, the series

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Arriving around the same time as Edge of Darkness, this was another energy industry adjacent conspiracy thriller, albeit more in the classic Hollywood style; but man, the cast and credits

Defence of the Realm on YouTube

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Ken Stott as a dour Scottish detective solving themed religious murders in a rain-soaked city (for four series, before regenerating into Marc Warren), should be right up our street you would think... We (mostly) watched all of Messiah, so you wouldn't have to

Messiah

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In which we ignore the controversy that is Gareth Roberts, and instead concentrate on the merits of the first series Sarah Jane Adventure which introduces the character and concept of the Trickster

Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?

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A comparison of the two big Nazi hunter films of the 1970s, each starring Laurence Olivier in very different roles

Marathon Man (1976)

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In another episode discussing a modern TV conspiracy thriller relating to the energy industry, we focus our attention on Paul Abbott's 2003 BBC One series State of Play

State of Play (2003)

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A double helping of Doctor Who What Iffery in this edition, as first one team and then another discuss what might have happened if we'd travelled into the series' past and radically altered the course of its history

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Our review of Jennifer Lawrence's recent romantic comedy, Gene Stupnitsky's follow-up to Good Boys

No Hard Feelings

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