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 Couple on Netflix. Kansas City police officer Sharon Pici (Anna Friel) experiences a supernatural nightmare after becoming obsessed with an investiga...
Sep 06, 2024•24 min•Ep. 217
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 prophecy in Kaos, starring Jeff Goldblum, on Netflix. Glitz meets grit in this backstage pass to artists from around the world. Through trials and triump...
Aug 30, 2024•26 min•Ep. 216
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 unpredictable characters, available on Amazon Prime Video. "Imagine Love Island, but everyone is naked" feels like the elevator pitch to the raunchy new reality...
Aug 23, 2024•24 min•Ep. 215
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 challenges, all while dealing with his own personal struggles, in Apple TV's Bad Monkey. Child on the way – and a man-child at home. Pregnant Gemma and her ha...
Aug 16, 2024•22 min•Ep. 214
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 in Apple TV original movie The Instigators. A night of passion leads to love between con man Charlie (Milo Ventimiglia of This Is Us) and undercover CI...
Aug 09, 2024•25 min•Ep. 213
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 heart of a benevolent religious movement, in this new Walking Dead spin-off on Now TV. When Bikini Bottom is scooped out of the ocean, Sandy and SpongeB...
Aug 02, 2024•22 min•Ep. 212
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 boy's parents, and the world in Apple TV+ series Time Bandits, starring Charlyne Yi, Taika Waititi, and Lisa Kudrow. Backstreet Boys. NSYNC. Lou Pearlma...
Jul 26, 2024•24 min•Ep. 211
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 bloodthirsty, a stadium designed for gladiatorial combat is needed - the Colosseum. Underground, thousands of people work and live—among them thousands who w...
Jul 19, 2024•30 min•Ep. 210
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 community in Amazon Prime Video's animated series from the hit film, Sausage Party: Foodtopia. High fashion, low funds. Model Mia may have a world class skin...
Jul 12, 2024•25 min•Ep. 209
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 dreamed of going to space, and her “doctored” application lands her in NASA’s ultra-competitive astronaut training program. In over her head, can this Flo...
Jul 05, 2024•27 min•Ep. 208
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 Douglas is Cancelled on ITVX. Serving as a love letter to her fans, Celine Dion highlights the music that has guided her life while also showcasing the res...
Jun 28, 2024•25 min•Ep. 207
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 Was We: Madness by Madness is available on ITVX. A Jewish family separated at the start of World War II is determined to survive and reunite, in Disn...
Jun 21, 2024•25 min•Ep. 206
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 happens when the heroes go rogue and start abusing their powers? Hit graphic superhero drama The Boys returns for a highly-anticipated fourth season on Amaz...
Jun 14, 2024•24 min•Ep. 205
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 businessman Pierre Bergé. Daniel Brühl is Becoming Karl Lagerfeld on Disney Plus. After a messy breakup with her long-term boyfriend, Queenie (Dionne Bro...
Jun 07, 2024•24 min•Ep. 204
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 footage, observational filming, and interviews, we will explore Camden’s rich history and hear from world-renowned musicians as they relive their Cam...
May 31, 2024•22 min•Ep. 203
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 generations and generations to come. Romesh, Jamie, Micah, and Jill take on a series of challenges as they set out on a road trip across Mexico, experiencin...
May 24, 2024•22 min•Ep. 202
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 in his son's relationships enrage Charlie in Channel 4's gripping new drama The Gathering. Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark set off on the original package ...
May 17, 2024•24 min•Ep. 201
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. Podcasters set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three strangers in an idyllic Irish town, as Siobhan Cullen and Will Forte star in Netf...
May 10, 2024•25 min•Ep. 200
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 Disney Plus original series Shardlake. When real estate mogul Charlie Croker (Jeff Daniels) faces bankruptcy, political and business interests collide, ...
May 03, 2024•22 min•Ep. 199
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 Richard Armitage star in a race against time at 30,000 feet in ITVX drama Red Eye. When a man is flown back to China to answer his 'crimes', he fin...
Apr 26, 2024•23 min•Ep. 198
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 Lynch, in the second installment of Ryan Murphy’s award-winning anthology series on Disney Plus. Our Living World is the stunning new Netflix nature ser...
Apr 19, 2024•21 min•Ep. 197
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 apocalypse, a peaceful denizen from a cozy fallout shelter is forced to return to the surface--and is shocked to discover the wasteland waiting for her. Ha...
Apr 12, 2024•25 min•Ep. 196
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 Olivia, he unearths Siegel family secrets, old and new, in Apple TV drama Sugar. Staring Gillian Anderson, Netflix's Scoop is an insider account of how th...
Apr 05, 2024•24 min•Ep. 195
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 across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more. Remember to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser and Goodpods AND you can now show your supp...
Mar 28, 2024•21 min•Ep. 194
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 series Twisted Metal on Paramount, and From the makers of Game of Thrones comes new Netflix series 3 Body Problem. Follow Bingewatch on all major podca...
Mar 21, 2024•24 min•Ep. 193
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 Reconstruction plans, in Apple TV's Manhunt. Kerry Godliman returns as the restauranteur turned detective in the third season of British seaside crime...
Mar 15, 2024•23 min•Ep. 192
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 had ever seen, in Now TV's Julianne Moore starrer Mary & George. When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home ...
Mar 08, 2024•23 min•Ep. 191
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 of all, on Now TV. As Detective Jeb Pyre investigates the murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her baby daughter in a suburb in the Salt Lake Valley,...
Mar 01, 2024•22 min•Ep. 190
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. Joanne Froggatt is the frontline Covid consultant in ITVX's Breathtaking, the shocking drama based on Rachel Clarke's unflinching memoir about how the rea...
Feb 23, 2024•24 min•Ep. 189
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 complete their journey in cheap modified sports cars in Amazon Prime Video's The Grand Tour: Sand Job New York sportswriter Mack devises successful hookup...
Feb 16, 2024•24 min•Ep. 188
