It's sports day at Bingewatch. Ian and Hannah are suited up and ready to binge another week of the best new shows out there, including... A spacey sci-fi. Galactic empires. A battle between good and evil in a galaxy far far away. It can only be... Apple TV's Foundation , back for a second season. ITVX's documentary series Boris Becker: The Rise and Fall tells the story of one of sport's most controversial figures. The dangerous world of American football and its impact on and off the field is pu...
Jul 14, 2023•22 min•Ep. 157
This week on Bingewatch, Ian and Hannah laugh, cry and sing their way through the biggest new releases of the week... New one-off comedy drama The Effects of Lying lands on ITVX. The much anticipated music documentary Wham! arrives on Netflix, chronicling the career of the late George Michael. Another thriller arrives on Sky Max and NOW TV in the form of Then You Run . Strange comedy horror series The Horror of Dolores Roach comes to Amazon Prime Video. Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast pla...
Jul 07, 2023•20 min•Ep. 156
This week on Bingewatch, Ian and Hannah are getting some action... John Krasinski has one final outing in the action packed final season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan on Prime Video. Idris Elba is out of luck when his plane is hijacked, but it does make for 7 hours of great TV for us. Silver linings as Hijack comes to Apple TV Plus. Hudson & Rex are the popular crime-fighting duo, returning for a sixth season on Alibi. Riz Ahmed and Chloe Grace Moretz star in Netflix animated comedy Nimona , abo...
Jun 30, 2023•20 min•Ep. 155
Ian and Hannah are having a laugh on this week's Bingewatch. Literally. We are packed with comedy, including... Offbeat comedy I'm A Virgo from Boots Riley makes its debut on Amazon Prime Video. From the mind of Bridget Christie comes a new comedy drama series which Ian has been very excited about! The Change is available on Channel 4. Robert Downey Jr. does Top Gear as he swaps his Iron Man suit for something more grounded in Downey's Dream Cars on Max. The Sex and the City gang return for a se...
Jun 23, 2023•22 min•Ep. 154
This week on Bingewatch... Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond are back, and this time they're racing around Europe in Amazon Prime Video's The Grand Tour: Eurocrash . Disney Plus have roped in the whole original cast for the small screen return of The Full Monty . On UKTV Gold, a special episode unearths an episode that never was in Blackadder: The Lost Pilot . Catherine Tate is the Queen of Oz in her brand new comedy series on BBC iPlayer. Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast play...
Jun 15, 2023•22 min•Ep. 153
This week on Bingewatch... New ITVX comedy Significant Other stars Katherine Parkinson and William Ash as two neighbours who come together under drastic circumstances. Tom Holland (Spider-Man) comes to Apple TV in new drama The Crowded Room . Guz Khan brings a fourth season of Man Like Mobeen to BBC3 Holidays, murder, secrets, and scandal - all the ingredients for a great series in Disney Plus' Saint X . Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-wor...
Jun 09, 2023•23 min•Ep. 152
This week on Bingewatch we're taking you from the Washington in the 60s to Britain in the 80s, with reviews of... Justing Theroux and Woody Harrelson star as the two men who accidentally brought down the Nixon administration in White House Plumbers on Now TV. Semi-autobiographical 80s comedy Changing Ends from comedian Alan Carr comes to ITVX. Shailene Woodley is the troubled police officer recruited to bring down a criminal in To Catch A Killer on Sky Cinema. The puntastically titled Scotland-b...
May 31, 2023•18 min•Ep. 151
From nuns solving crime to Arnold Schwarzenegger, this week on Bingewatch has it all... Arnie makes his TV series debut on new Netflix series Fubar . Seth Rogan and Rose Byrne reunite for new comedy series Platonic , streaming on Apple TV. Murder mystery series Sister Boniface Mysterie s returns to UKTV. And popular crime comedy Poker Face returns to Now TV and Sky Max. Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Vid...
May 25, 2023•21 min•Ep. 150
From Action heroes-turned-reality TV stars to addicts-turned-private investigators, there's transformations aplenty in this week's reviews... Disney Plus give a fresh look to popular 1992 sports comedy White Men Can't Jump . Sylvester Stallone does Keeping Up With the Kardashians in his own family reality series The Family Stallone . Patricia Arguette is a former addict turned private investigator in Apple TV's dark comedy High Desert . Shea Serrano's semi autobiographical comedy series Primo is...
May 18, 2023•19 min•Ep. 149
This week on Bingewatch... The Muppets return to Disney Plus with the Animal-led original series The Muppets Mayhem . Apple TV have released a documentary film about Hollywood actor Michael J. Fox in the aptly named Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie . Period drama Ten Pound Poms makes its debut on BBC iPlayer. Also on BBC iPlayer, the first all gay dating show in I kissed A Boy . Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Pri...
May 11, 2023•20 min•Ep. 148
This week on Bingewatch, we take you on a journey through time from Queen Charlotte via World War II and all the way to modern day London... (01:40) Sci-fi drama Silo on Apple TV Plus (06:39) Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story on Netflix (12:42) World War II drama A Small Light on Disney Plus (17:20) Romantic comedy film Rya Lane , also on Disney Plus. Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and m...
May 04, 2023•23 min•Ep. 147
This week on Bingewatch we're taking you all the way to Neverland and back, featuring reviews of... (01:28) Spies, conspiracies, science fiction - it's all packed into new Amazon Prime Video series Citadel . (06:15) Peter Pan & Wendy get the live action treatment on Disney Plus, featuring a host of top talent including Jude Law as Captain Hook. (10:58) Comedic anthology series Inside No. 9 returns to BBC iPlayer for an eighth series. (14:50) Paramount Plus remake classic 80s thriller Fatal A...
Apr 27, 2023•21 min•Ep. 146
This week on Bingewatch, we're getting drunk, giving birth and heading to the jungle (kind of). It's a messy one! (01:28) The Mantle Twins are on a mission to change the way women give birth, in Dead Ringers on Prime Video. (06:14) The Hunt for Raoul Moat is a new original series on ITVX dramatising one of the biggest manhunts in British history, after spree shooter Raoul Moat shot and killed one person and wounded two others in 2010. (11:40) Two people compete to inherit the world's greatest wi...
Apr 19, 2023•25 min•Ep. 145
This week on Bingewatch we're covering crime in Victorian London to crime in the family to... well, cyber crime. All the crime. We hope you love crime. (01:47) A woman forms an unexpected relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter while searching for the truth about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared in Apple TV's The Last Thing He Told Me. (06:05) Netflix have found the most awkward family dynamic possible with Obsession, about a man who falls in love with his soon-to-be daughter ...
Apr 12, 2023•25 min•Ep. 144
From crime-riddled London to the hallways of Rydell High, this episode of Bingewatch is the meaniest, sassiest, and angriest one yet... (01:44) Guy Ritchie is back to his crime action best with Jason Statham, Hugh Grant and Aubrey Plaza in Prime Video's Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre . (06:58) An iconic musical gets a bit of an origin story. It may not have the classic soundtrack, but Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies brings all the sass to Paramount Plus. (12:35) Exploring the life of a tennis...
Apr 05, 2023•25 min•Ep. 143
This week on Bingewatch we're taking you from 19th century plantations in the American south to, well, Scotland. Based on the New York Times bestseller, The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly, women develop a mysterious new ability to electrocute at will, leading to an extraordinary global reversal of the power balance. It's streaming on Amazon Prime Video. A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled ba...
Mar 30, 2023•23 min•Ep. 142
From cult leaders to country singers, this week's Bingewatch has a feast of great new TV and returning series for you to sink your eyes into, including: Making its move from Showtime to Paramount Plus, Yellowjackets returns for a second series with its all star cast including Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci and Oscar winner Juliette Lewis. Putting a spin on the talent show format, and produced by Reese Witherspoon, My Kind of Country on Apple TV ropes in Kacey Musgraves and Orvile Peck on a glo...
Mar 22, 2023•23 min•Ep. 141
This week on Bingewatch, we're taking you from the football pitches of London to 1960s Boston... (01:28) An all star cast litters Apple TV's new anthology drama series Extrapolations . (07:10) Keira Knightley is a journalist in the 1960s tracking down a notorious serial killer in Disney Plus original movie Boston Strangler. (12:52) Last year's drama series Bali 2002 makes its way to ITVX, and dramatises the terror attacks that made global headlines. (17:23) Nate the Great has done a major heel t...
Mar 15, 2023•26 min•Ep. 140
Hello, and welcome to Douze Points - a brand-new podcast from the Bingewatch family that celebrates the weird and always wonderful world of the Eurovision Song Contest. I’m Steven Perkins, I’m a TV magazine journalist, a Eurovision obsessive, and I’m your host for this podcast - so thank you, brilliant listener, for joining me, and I hope we’re going to have a great time chatting about Eurovision. Over the coming weeks, we’re going to be covering all the breaking stories and sharing our thoughts...
Mar 12, 2023•42 sec
This week on Bingewatch, we're breaking out of prison and taking you to the afterlife. Fasten your seatbelts! (01:36) Think Succession but colder, as Canadian dramedy Moonshine returns to Amazon Freevee. (05:36) The highly anticipated Luther: The Fallen Sun arrives on Netflix, as Idris Elba's iconic John Luther escapes from prison with nothing but vengeance on his mind. Co-starring the Oscar nominated Cynthia Erivo. (12:04) Popular crime drama The Bay returns for a fourth series on ITVX. (16:01)...
Mar 08, 2023•22 min•Ep. 139
This week on Bingewatch we're taking you from the snowy desolation of Mount Everest to the stomach-stitching funnies of stand-up comedy: The Diplomat is the latest six-part original series from UKTV's Alibi, following one woman's fight to protect British nationals in Barcelona. Sam Claflin ( The Hunger Games ) and Riley Keough star in music drama, following the rise and rock band Daisy Jones & The Six through 1970s Los Angeles, and it's on Prime Video. Bear Grylls leads this documentary as S...
Mar 01, 2023•22 min•Ep. 138
This week on Bingewatch, there's something strange happening in a lot of neighborhoods. From warring families to haunted houses, we're reviewing... (01:38) If you've seen one crime thriller you've seen them all. There's probably a twist at the end, but Liaison on Apple TV is still worth your time. (04:59) Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes team up as a divorced couple for new comedy drama Fleishman Is In Trouble on Disney Plus. (10:14) From the mind of Russell T. Davies comes You & Me , a roma...
Feb 22, 2023•20 min•Ep. 137
This week on Bingewatch Ian and Hannah go from Timbuktu to the Moon and back again... (01:25) In Apple TV's new sci-fi comedy series Hello Tomorrow! , Billy Crudup (Almost Famous) stars as the salesman offloading lunar timeshares. (06:10) Sam Neill is the biggest draw in new Australian courtroom drama The Twelve , where the juror's lives are just as scandalous as the defendant. (10:11) Netflix have something for the golf fans in Full Swing , a documentary following professional golfers including...
Feb 15, 2023•19 min•Ep. 136
This week on Bingewatch is all about love. From loving our exes, to loving someone we're trying not to love, to loving our farms, to loving someone so much we have to kidnap them, put them in a box and then murder them when they get upset because we just can't bear to see them sad. Ahhh love. (01:35) Penn Badgley returns as everyone's favourite obsessive stalker, but this time he's in London! Season 4 Part 1 of You is available on Netflix. (06:10) Jeremy Clarkson's gets his wellies back on as Cl...
Feb 09, 2023•21 min•Ep. 135
This week on Bingewatch... (01:45) The hotly anticipated sequel to the Oscar nominated Marvel flick Black Panther finally hits Disney Plus screens, but does Wakanda Forever hold up without late star Chadwick Boseman? Letitia Wright and Lupita Nyong'o lead the super cast. (06:29) Helena Bonham Carter turns to the small screen, specifically ITVX, as she brings soap opera legend Noele Gordon to life in three part drama Nolly . (11:09) Netflix know how to do eccentric true crime documentaries, so th...
Feb 01, 2023•21 min•Ep. 134
This week on Bingewatch , we cover everything from therapists gone wrong to deep fakes gone wild! (01:39) Harrison Ford and Jason Segel team up in Shrinking - a new a-list comedy from Apple TV about a shrink who should probably sort his own head out before trying to help others. (06:36) Netflix love their tween sci-fi adventure series, and Lockwood & Co is the latest. Starring Ruby Stokes and Morven Christie, the first season is available now. (11:14) What if everyone in the world had a supe...
Jan 25, 2023•22 min•Ep. 133
Coming up this week on Bingewatch ... (01:29) The Inbetweeners ' Simon Bird stars in a new comedy about the one topic infamously hard to joke about - religion. Everyone Else Burns is on All4. (05:14) Adapted from the Playstation game, The Last of Us on HBO and NOW TV explores the violent, apocalyptic, post-pandemic world in this visceral warning to anti-vaxxers around the world. (10:46) ITVX are streaming season 2 of The Sex Lives of College Girls , which is a coming of age drama about some very...
Jan 19, 2023•21 min•Ep. 132
From feel-good underdog stories to Nazi dystopias, this week on Bingewatch has everything covered, including: (01:29) A self-made millionaire creates the Bank of Dave to help out his community in the British Netflix film starring Rory Kinnear. (06:02) Robe Lowe. Dogs. Netflix. Sold. Dog Gone is available now. (10:14) The follow up to Prime Video's violent dystopian drama Hunters sees Al Pacino continue to fight a bunch of Nazis in New York City. (14:56) A house plagued by tragedy and mystery con...
Jan 12, 2023•22 min•Ep. 131
Christmas has been and gone but there's still tons of great new TV to keep you going well into 2023. On this episode of Bingewatch: (01:24) Sarah Lancashire is back for a third and final season of Happy Valley on BBC iPlayer (05:36) Things aren't all as they seem, as supernatural forces take hold of The Rig on Amazon Prime Video. (10:32) Kumail Nanjani ( The Big Sick and Marvel's Eternals ) plays Steve Banerjee in biographical drama Welcome to Chippendales on Disney Plus. (15:15) Yet another vam...
Jan 06, 2023•25 min•Ep. 130
This week on the Christmas 2022 Bingewatch special... If you're fed up hearing about UK political scandals, then Stonehouse is not the show for you. Telling the crazy story of John Stonehouse, who faked his own death, it's available on ITVX. From the people behind Bridge of Spies comes spy drama Treason , about an MI6 spy wrangling with his complex past in the form of a Russian spy, and it's available on Netflix. Netflix is starting to squeeze their Witcher cash cow, with the release of new preq...
Dec 22, 2022•26 min•Ep. 129
