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 bunch of singletons to a Greek island and puts them to work in his new reality dating show. Think Love Island with big tips in Amazon Prime Video's Hot...
Feb 09, 2024•24 min•Ep. 187
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 of others, in Domino Day on BBC iPlayer. Two sporting legends ... comedian Elis James and actor Matt Lucas ... come together for the return of Fan...
Feb 02, 2024•23 min•Ep. 186
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....
Jan 26, 2024•23 min•Ep. 185
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. Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast p...
Jan 24, 2024•25 min•Ep. 184
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 th...
Jan 19, 2024•23 min•Ep. 183
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 up...
Jan 12, 2024•22 min•Ep. 182
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 i...
Jan 05, 2024•22 min•Ep. 181
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. ...
Dec 22, 2023•26 min•Ep. 180
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...
Dec 15, 2023•17 min•Ep. 179
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 ...
Dec 08, 2023•19 min•Ep. 178
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 ...
Nov 30, 2023•22 min•Ep. 177
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...
Nov 24, 2023•20 min•Ep. 176
This week on Bingewatch, Ian and Hannah review some of the biggest new shows to hits UK streaming platforms, including... The final season of The Crown kicks off on Netflix, with Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Jonathan Pryce and Elizabeth Debicki leading the all star series fit for a Queen. Jensen Button and Keanu Reeves team up to look back on a true sporting underdog story in the Disney Plus series Brawn: The Impossible Formula One Story After the world-shattering revelation that monsters are ...
Nov 16, 2023•26 min•Ep. 175
This week, Ian and Hannah review the biggest new TV shows on UK streaming platforms, including... You get to feel like James Bond and possibly win a million pounds? The perfect reality show finally exists in Prime Video's 007: Road to a Million. British pop icon Robbie Williams follows in the footsteps of British sporting icon David Beckham with his own self-titled Netflix documentary. Gemma Arterton stars in this action crime drama thriller heist caper series thing on Disney+ called Culprits. A...
Nov 10, 2023•22 min•Ep. 174
This week on Bingewatch, reviews of... A blind French girl and German soldier cross paths during World War II with unexpected results. All the Light We Cannot See, starring Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie, is on Netflix now. If you don't think you've seen enough biographical documentaries this year, then you're in luck because Sly arrives on Netflix, telling the Rocky to Rambo story of action hero Sylvester Stallone. What if technology could determine true love? That's a reality in the world of Fin...
Nov 03, 2023•22 min•Ep. 173
From the beauty of the real world to the terrifying extraterrestrial, this week's batch of new releases will have you bingeing like there's no tomorrow! Steven Spielberg and Morgan Freeman team up to create a nature documentary to rival the best of Attenborough, as Life on Our Planet hits Netflix. 80s pop duo Milli Vanilli get their own music documentary on Paramount Plus. One of the most famous haunted cases in the world gets the Apple TV treatment in The Enfield Poltergeist, starring Olivia Bo...
Oct 27, 2023•22 min•Ep. 172
On this week's Bingewatch with Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando... Stephen Graham comes to Netflix in Bodies, a trippy detective drama following the same murder in four different time periods. Just in time for Halloween comes horror comedy The Burning Girls on Paramount Plus, starring Samantha Morton and Ruby Strokes. Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose. That's the title. It's on Prime Video, and if the title alone doesn't reel you in then nothing will. Disney Plus give us the big scoop on 2020...
Oct 20, 2023•23 min•Ep. 171
This week sees a remake of a classic 90s film, a reboot of a classic 90s comedy, and the crazy story of the show that never was... The classic 90s movie based on the classic novel gets the classic reboot treatment as Interview with the Vampire comes to BBC iPlayer. Kelsey Grammar is joined by a new cast of characters as Frasier returns to Boston in the much-anticipated Paramount Plus reboot. Based on Bonnie Garmus' book Lessons in Chemistry, Oscar winner Brie Larson stars as the woman desperate ...
Oct 13, 2023•23 min•Ep. 170
Haunted houses, murderous rampages, and David Beckham... it's Halloween season folks, and Ian & Hannah are breaking down some of the best new stuff on UK streaming platforms. October would not be complete without some blood-soaked popcorn, and Prime Video are gladly obliging with their slasher horror teen comedy romp Totally Killer with Sabrina's Kiernan Shipka and Olivia Holt. Hedge funds, troubled marriages, and Alden Ehrenreich are all the makings of a Netflix hit in new movie Fair Play, ...
Oct 06, 2023•19 min•Ep. 169
This week on Bingewatch, Ian & Hannah tackle superheroes, chefs, and undercover journalists, as we take a look at the biggest new releases on UK streaming platforms... A new true crime documentary about tabloid journalist Mazher Mahmood, The Fake Sheikh arrives on Amazon Prime Video. Stephen Graham's Boiling Point gets a spin-off series on BBC iPlayer. We're all eagerly awaiting season four of The Boys, but spin-off show Gen V will have to suffice for now! Flora & Son is a new comedy dra...
Sep 28, 2023•23 min•Ep. 168
It's time to turn on the TV and get ready for a long, hard sofa sesh because this week's new releases will fill you with pleasure... From the John Wick universe comes new spin-off drama The Continental, arriving on Prime Video. Whoever said insomnia is no joke may well be proven wrong by Apple TV's latest comedy series Still Up. On ITVX, a crime drama adapted from a crime story called Crime. The plot's a mystery. Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson and co. return as popular Netflix series Sex Educ...
Sep 22, 2023•23 min•Ep. 167
Love is in the air... quite literally as Ian and Hannah review some of the biggest new film & TV on streaming platforms this week, including... Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen pair up in Prime Video's latest romantic drama Wilderness. A romantic comedy movie set around JFK may not be a unique concept (Tom Hanks & Catherine Zeta-Jones nailed that one), but Netflix are doing it their way with Love at First Sight. Ryan and Rob are back on Disney+ as they look to dominate the world of...
Sep 15, 2023•22 min•Ep. 166
This week on Bingewatch, Ian and Hannah work their way through the A to Z of crime, and one dramatic final season... Top lawyer Ingrid gets more than she bargained for after she helps an accused stalker, in The Killing Kind on Paramount+ With an all-star cast led by Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons, crime drama miniseries Love & Death is on ITVX. Top Boy reaches his fifth and final season on Netflix. Apple TV's The Changeling sees Apollo embarking on a desperate search through New York City...
Sep 07, 2023•22 min•Ep. 165
From the fantastical world of Japanese game shows to one night stands with a movie star, it doesn't get much weirder than the eclectic mix of new releases this week! Fantasy series The Wheel of Time returns for a second series on Prime Video. Get ready, because the culty chaotic Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle returns with a glorious reboot on Prime Video. Based on Kate London's novels, crime thriller The Twoer 2: Death Message arrives on ITVX. A one night stand takes a complicated turn when...
Sep 01, 2023•22 min•Ep. 164
This week may just relight your fire for streaming TV, with four reviews you'll never forget. Binge them at once and it could be the greatest day of your life. Any Take That fans out there? Murder, mystery, morality. One woman's traumatic past threatens to expose Ireland’s most shocking and darkest secrets in BBC iPlayer's The Woman in the Wall. Get your dancing shoes on for Greatest Days, a new jukebox musical on Prime Video. Apple TV have brought their popular sci-fi series Invasion back for a...
Aug 25, 2023•23 min•Ep. 163
From Boxing superstars to apocalyptic hen dos, it's quite a week for new releases, but the Bingewatch team have you covered... Prime Video brings us another tale in the popular franchise, as Harlan Coben's Shelter hits our screens. From world champion boxer to reality TV star, Netflix have bagged a knockout cast in At Home with the Furys. Popular British period drama Sandition returns for a third series on ITVX. You're on a hen do but the apocalypse hits... if only we had a pound every time that...
Aug 17, 2023•23 min•Ep. 162
From opioids to the open wilderness, this week's Bingewatch is basically a 1001 ways to die on TV... If you like Dopesick, you're going to love new Netflix drama Painkiller about the US opioid epidemic starring Matthew Brokerick. Drop a bunch of British strangers in the Canadian wilderness and tell them to survive. What could go wrong? Watch Alone on Channel 4 to find out. New Lionsgate+ travel series Men in Kilts: A Road Trip with Sam & Graham is exactly what it says on the tin. Another new...
Aug 11, 2023•22 min•Ep. 161
It's a mixed bag of goodies this week, as Ian & Hannah review a selection of new releases across UK streaming services, including: A new Netflix sports documentary chronicling the career of one of Britain's greatest cyclists in Mark Cavendish: Never Enough. A gripping crime drama from start to finish in BBC iPlayer's Wolf. The tear-jerking The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart on Prime Video. New drama Vanishing Act magically appears on ITVX. Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your ...
Aug 04, 2023•23 min•Ep. 160
This week on Bingewatch, Ian & Hannah are on an emotional rollercoaster. With laughs, tears and everything in between, the latest batch of streamable goodies have it all... Starring Elle Fanning, The Girl from Plainville tells the true story of Conrad Roy and his girlfriend Michelle Carter, and it's streaming on All4. The Beanie Bubble on Apple TV stars Zach Galifianakis and an all star cast in the true story inspired comedy drama. New thriller Special Ops: Lioness starring Zoe Saldana premi...
Jul 28, 2023•23 min•Ep. 159
This week on Bingewatch, Ian and Hannah go from the kitchen to the tennis court with reviews of the latest new shows on UK streaming platforms... Critically acclaimed drama The Bear returns for a second season on Disney Plus. Amazon Prime Video serve up their tennis drama Fifteen Love . Netflix original movie They Cloned Tyrone about, well, cloning Tyrone, arrives on the platform. Best friends and comedians are back on our screens as they continue their crusade against the world in Now TV's Rob ...
Jul 21, 2023•21 min•Ep. 158
