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Bingewatch

Hannah Fernando & Ian MacEwan

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The essential podcast for TV addicts, Bingewatch selects and previews the very best films and TV shows for you to watch on UK streaming platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, NOW TV, Disney+, Paramount+, and catch-up services such as BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub and All 4. Journalists Hannah Fernando and Ian MacEwan round up the new releases, bring you the latest news about what’s in production, find out what celebrities like to binge watch, and chew the fat about all things TV-related ...
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Each week Nick Rodd and Chris Baker will talk about all the news that's going on from political to celebrity news. Anything that is important going on in the world, they will talk about. The main purpose of the BBP News podcast is to keep you up on current events. See you every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at 7am!
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Humanity's Thundering Brainstorms Turned Blundering Brain Farts They are priceless, multifaceted jewels of misjudgment. Masterworks of the moronic. Steroid-juiced stupidity wearing a size 9XX dunce cap embroidered with one simple word: “Duh.” They are the colossally, cringingly, often laughably bad notions that have leapt from the short-circuiting synapses of some of the world’s brightest (and dimmest) brains, now faithfully retold here as "100 of the Worst Ideas in History, The Podcast." Ba ...
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Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 13th September, including: Join the trio for one last road trip as Jeremy Clarkson, James May & Richard Hammond take three cars they've always wanted to own on an emotional adventure through Zimbabwe. Watch The Grand Tour: One For …
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What Were They Thinking? Hyped as a tough, high-energy, off-season alternative to the venerable National Football League, XFL games boast blaring rock music, trash-talking coaches, no penalties for excessive roughness, plus lingerie-clad cheerleaders. Sounds good on paper. Looks bad on the playing field -- and even worse on TV. Listen, laugh and le…
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Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 6th September 2024, including: When a lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can even begin - with a body discovered just hours before the ceremony - everyone in the wedding party is a suspect. Nicole Kidman stars in The Perfect…
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What Were They Thinking? What would you call an outdoor game where one player heaves a weighted, foot-long, metal-tipped dart hihg into the air, hoping to land it in the middle of a plastic hoop placed at the feet of his opponent some 20 feet away? You’d call it “lawn darts,” “Jarts,” “garden darts”—or maybe just “the most idiotically dangerous kid…
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Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 30th August 2024, including: A darkly comedic and contemporary reimagining of Greek mythology, exploring themes of gender politics, power, and life in the underworld; six humans learn that they are component parts of an ancient pro…
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What Was He Thinking? While his bandmates were conjuring up the mop-top pop-music elixir that soon exploded into Beatle mania, Pete Best decided travel to the beat of his own drum. Refusing to fit in with John, Paul and George, Pete traded in his "ticket to ride" to worldwide fame and fortune for a license to drive a Liverpool delivery truck. Liste…
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Ian and Hannah review the biggest new films and bingeable shows on UK streaming services for the week beginning Friday 23rd August 2024, including: Think you know everything about England’s first foreign manager Sven-Göran Eriksson? Think again. Sven is the stranger-than-fiction story, and a poignant farewell, from one of football’s most unpredicta…
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More of the Best of the Worst Whiskey rings, hanging chads, criminal contra-dictions, depressing obsessions, heaping helpings of guns and butter -- American Presidents and their staffs have cooked up then served up an onerous, odorous batch of stinkin' thinkin' over the last 200-plus years. These six examples spotlight how the ideas of yesterday—fr…
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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 challeng…
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Presiding over five Boston Red Sox World Series titles in fifteen years, the team's ownership confidently believes their roster is doubtlessly strong enough to withstand the departure of star pitcher Babe Ruth, a.k.a. “The Bambino.” So they conjure up the idea, in 1920, to sell Ruth to the then-lowly New York Yankees. What happens next is an histor…
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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 i…
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A swarm of sweet-toothed beetles is chomping away at Australia’s sugar cane crop. So, by cracky, local farmers come up with the perfect solution: Introduce 102 toads from Hawaii to scarf up the bothersome beetle population. Problem solved, eh mates? Not quite. Our Outback sugar farmers thus begin one of the worst ecological calamities in Australian…
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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 he…
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An erstwhile sprinkler repairman, Bernard L. Madoff is the embodiment of the American dream, parlaying a paltry $5,000 initial investment in his own securities firm in 1960 into a nearly $1 billion dollar personal fortune by 2008. Shockingly, his American dream becomes a nightmare for thousands of investors who trust his sage advice and reputation …
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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 bo…
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It’s his wedding night. And in a blissful, celebratory moment, Robert Kearns pops a champagne cork—right into his left eye, leaving him partially blind. Fast-forward ten years. Driving home in a rainstorm, the sight-impaired automotive engineer and part-time inventor squints through his car’s rapidly oscillating windshield wiper. Even with one bad …
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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 bloodth…
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Newly reelected and embarking on a national speaking tour, President William McKinley is a busy chief executive—too busy, his staff decides, to meet with a clothier who’s offered to fit the commander in chief with a snazzy piece of outerwear. Instead, the meeting is rescheduled until after McKinley returns from a brief trip to the Pan American Expo…
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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 communi…
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Since the dawn of our republic, Americans have been wrestling with a great existential question: “How can I shove limitless fistfuls of fatty snack foods into my bloated face without making my arteries harder than last week’s linguine?” Finally, in 1968, Proctor & Gamble discovers the answer: Olestra. Thanks to this new chemically-contrived fat sub…
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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 drea…
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You know the movie, you know the scene: Young Elliot lures E.T., the extraterrestrial, out of hiding with a trail of yummy candies. "E.T." screenwriter Melissa Mathison believed that only one kind of candy could pique the sweet tooth of a cute, cuddly intergalactic visitor to our planet -- the most popular candy on Earth --M&M’s. But when presented…
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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 Dougl…
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Ensconced in the back seat of his open-roofed Double Phaeton limousine, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, warily motorcades from a town hall meeting through the streets of Sarajevo, Bosnia. And with good reason. Just hours earlier, the archduke narrowly escapes a bomb-thrower’s assassination attempt that s…
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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…
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In the bubbly affluence of post–World War II America, Coke is the cola preferred by 60 percent of the market. Yet by 1983, pesky rival Pepsi has begun to outsell Coke among coveted youth demographics. Despite a generations-long reign as the world’s top-selling soft drink, “The Real Thing” -- a bastion of coolheaded product stability-- makes an unch…
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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 happen…
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Uber music producer Farian is looking for the “next big thing” in music. Scouring the ’80s Berlin club scene, he happens upon models Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus tearing up the dance floor. To most, they’re no more than hunky, prancing boy toys. But to Farian, they’re ideal front men for a new band. One problem: Neither Rob nor Fab can sing. To c…
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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 bus…
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Nearly a half century after George Washington dons a three-cornered hat, courageously crosses the Delaware River, and defeats the British Army redcoats, President John Quincy Adams strips down to his birthday suit, swims naked in the Potomac River, and leaves America red faced. Giving “crack of dawn” a whole new meaning, each morning, Adams sneaks …
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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…
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Just your typical day at the ballpark: First you see a pitcher smoke a fastball down the middle of the plate. Then you watch a speedy runner burn up the base paths. Finally, you see center field explode in a fireball! Okay, so it’s not exactly your average trip to the old ball game. But that’s the whole, record-breaking idea behind “Disco Demolitio…
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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 genera…
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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 …
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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. Pod…
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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 Di…
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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 R…
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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 Ly…
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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 apoca…
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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 Oliv…
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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 acr…
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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 serie…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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Ian and Hannah are back for another batch of new releases on UK streaming platforms, for the week beginning Friday 23rd February 2024, including... Brace yourselves - the new kids are here. Five talented black scholarship students, and an elite private school with a reputation problem. One of them will have to change in BBC iPlayer's Boarders. Joan…
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Ian and Hannah review the biggest new released on UK streaming platforms for the week beginning Friday 17th February, 2024 including... Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May reunite in the remote African country of Mauritania, following in the footsteps of the legendary Paris-Dakar rally. Instead of bespoke Dakar racers, the boys must comp…
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This week's batch of new releases is pretty, pretty, pretty good. Ian and Hannah have you covered with reviews of the biggest new shows on UK streaming platforms, including... Based on David Nicholls' global bestseller, Netflix are tapping into Valentine's Day with their new series One Day, starring Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall. Rylan Clark takes a b…
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Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando review the biggest new shows and movies to hit UK streaming platforms beginning Friday 2nd Feb 2024, including: Donald Glover and Maya Erskine take the lead roles in Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of spy drama Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Alisha Bailey is a powerful young witch who is haunted by her need to feed on the energy …
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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 preque…
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