Bingewatch – Details, episodes & analysis

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 triumphs, Jessi, CRAVITY, and BLACKSWAN give everything they've got to an art form that demands nothing less than perfection, in Apple TV music documentary K-Pop Idols.

Get up close to Africa's magnificent felines. Across dramatic Botswanan landscapes meet the lions, cheetahs and leopards at home in the wilderness - and those filming their lives, in BBC iPlayer's Big Cats 24/7

Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez return as the true crime podcasters who find themselves in the middle of the action, and in season 4 the trio make their way to Hollywood! Stream Only Murders in the Building on Disney Plus now.

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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 unpredictable characters, available on Amazon Prime Video.

"Imagine Love Island, but everyone is naked" feels like the elevator pitch to the raunchy new reality show hosted by Rylan Clark. Dating Naked UK is on Paramount Plus.

Following a multi-generational orangutan family through their treetop triumphs and travails, The Secret Lives of Orangutans is a new feature length wildlife documentary on Netflix, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

British comedian Tom Davis performs his sell-out stand-up show about life as the Underdog, and it's available to watch on Now TV.

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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 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 Disney Plus series We Were the Lucky Ones, starring Joey King, Sam Woolf and Logan Lerman.

The prequel series to Game of Thrones returns for another fantasy-filled season, in House of the Dragon, available on Sky Atlantic and Now TV.

When self-styled gym god Andy feels he's losing his manly mojo, it hits him right in the ego. Is there more to life than pecs and posing? From the makers of People Just Do Nothing, Peacock returns for a second series on BBC iPlayer.

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This week on Bingewatch...

(01:39) Jeff Bridges plays an off-the-grid former CIA agent with enemies in The Old Man on Disney Plus

(06:21) Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray team up for The Greatest Beer Run Ever - an original movie on Apple TV

(12:40) Fantasy Football League returns to NOW TV

(16:11) Oscar nominee Elsie Fisher heads to TV for retro horror comedy series My Best Friend's Exorcism on Amazon Prime Video.

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This week on Bingewatch:

Disney Plus release the highly-anticipated Andor - a prequel series to Rogue One as the Star Wars universe continues to expand.

Just when you thought he was off our screens for good, Kenneth Branagh dons the blonde mop to play Boris Johnson in Covid drama This England.

It's series four for paranormal comedy Ghosts arriving on BBC iPlayer.

And The Great British Bake Off meets DIY in Handmade: Britain's Best Woodworker on Channel 4 and All4.

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This week on Bingewatch we preview classy period drama The Serpent Queen, starring Samantha Morton as Catherine de Medici, on Starzplay.

We also check out the latest movie spinoff from Paramount Plus, American Gigolo, starring Jon Bernthal and Rosie O'Donnell and based on the Richard Gere film.

Grand Tour boys Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May hit the road in rally cars for a jeopardy-filled drive across Sweden and Finland in their latest offering, 'A Scandi Flick'.

And This Country's Daisy May Cooper stars in new comedy thriller Am I Being Unreasonable on BBC iPlayer.

Skip to your favourite bit:

(01.35) The Serpent Queen

(05.00) American Gigolo

(10.27) The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick

(14.44) Am I Being Unreasonable?

This week on Bingewatch we feature two huge new releases on Disney Plus. Firstly the live-action remake of animated classic Pinocchio featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the voice of Jiminy Cricket and Oscar winner Tom Hanks as Geppetto.

Secondly, biographical series Mike dramatising the life of one of boxing, and indeed sport's, most controversial figures - Iron Mike Tyson.

Additionally, we cover the latest series of Brassic, another historical sport series in Munich Games and Hannah tells us what she's been bingeing this week.

Skip to your favourite bit:

(01:35) Mike

(06:15) Pinocchio

(10:49) Munich Games

(14:02) Brassic

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This week on Bingewatch sees the release of the most expensive television series ever made. Coming to Amazon Prime Video it's the highly anticipated prequel series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Also on the show, Netflix movie I Came By, UK comedy series Bloods and new Apple TV+ series Life by Ella.

Skip to your favourite bit:

(01:45) The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

(06:30) I Came by

(10:54) Bloods

(13:40) Life by Ella

Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.

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This week on Bingewatch:

(01:40) The highly anticipated prequel series to Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon is now available on Now TV

(07:07) The Oscar-nominated comedy drama Licorice Pizza is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video

(11:12) Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes tells the story of an England cricket star's journey on and off the field, and it's also on Prime Video.

(15:52) When Hollywood royalty Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElnenny announced their takeover of Wrexham AFC football club it sounded almost too good to be true for the fans. Documentary Welcome to Wrexham tells the sports story of the century you just couldn't make up.

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This week on Bingewatch:

(01:15) Continuing Disney's expansion of the MCU, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law stars Tatiana Maslany and Mark Ruffalo who reprises his role as Bruce Banner. Think Ally McBeal meets The Incredible Hulk

(05:03) Bad Sisters on Apple TV+ is a new comedy drama series from Sharon Horgan about siblings forced to bond after a death in the family

(09:43) A new horror thriller series on BBC iPlayer, Red Rose is from the makers of Sex Education and stars Amelia Clarkson.

(14:11) Mystery drama Echoes sees two identical sisters swapping lives with dramatic consequences, and it's available on Netflix.

Follow Bingewatch on all major podcast players for your weekly rundown of the best binge-worthy shows across Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and more.

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