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Must Watch reviews ‘The Jetty’
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Gethin Jones to review ‘The Jetty’.
The Jetty is a four-part crime drama starring Jenna Coleman.
Detective Manning (played by Coleman) investigates a fire in a holiday home in a Lancashire lakeside town and whether or not it connects to an old missing person case, which potentially involves a man in his 20s who had relationships with underage girls.
Her discoveries lead to her questioning her own past, and the gap between her late husband when they first met.
Gethin: “Hayley, is it a Must Watch?”
Hayley: “Well, I want to say: sort of. It’s a bit lightweight and jokey to start of with and it’s full of cliches and the kind of police work – I sound very judgemental now – but it’s full of the kind of police work that you get from watching police shows, rather than doing any further research into what detectives do other than walking around in big…
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Must Watch reviews: Douglas is Cancelled
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to review Douglas is Cancelled.
Douglas Is Cancelled is a four-part comedy drama about cancel culture, set in the world of television news, starring Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan, directed by BAFTA winning screenwriter Steven Moffat.
National treasure and news presenter Douglas Bellowes tells a sexist joke at a wedding - will his career survive? And is anyone, at home or at the office, really on his side?
Credit: ITVX
“It seems to be a Stephen Moffat rant at the youth”
Nihal: “Hayley, is this a Must Watch?”
Hayley: “Not really, but it does end well. I've seen all four parts. I think the issue with this whole show is it seems to be a Stephen Moffat rant at the youth. There are zoomers and millennials who say things like, "don't shout at me, I already have anxiety today" and they overuse the word "micro-aggression". And they…
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Must Watch Reviews: Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to review Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials.
It is a documentary hosted by BAFTA-winning actress, Suranne Jones as she delves into the history of witches across the world.
Suranne travels from Lancashire to Massachusetts exploring why women were the main targets of witch trials, how they were persecuted and the lasting effect this had on history.
Nihal: “Hayley, what is it going to be?”
Hayley: “It’s a two part series on channel 4 hosted by Suranne Jones and it’s about the history of those who were accused of witchcraft, the political and societal context of witch hunts and also the impact the trials had on communities.
“She talks to academics and experts and it all starts out near to where she was born, in Lancashire, in the village of Pendle, which was the site of one of the most famous witch trials in English…
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Must Watch reviews: On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to review On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace.
In 2013, Russia was about to extract the world’s first offshore Arctic oil. A Greenpeace ship set sail for the oil rig, hoping to film a protest and discourage an international Arctic oil rush.
Russian security services had been monitoring activities of the ship and word came from the very top: the protestors would be made an example of. The ship was captured and its protestors imprisoned.
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Must Watch reviews ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to review ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’.
It is a three-part series on BBC One written by Daf James.
It's about two guys in a long-term relationship who decide to adopt a child.
The drama follows all the hoops that they have to jump through for that to happen.
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Must Watch reviews Buying London
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to review ‘Buying London’.
‘Buying London’ is essentially a British version of the Netflix reality show ‘Selling Sunset’.
The show received a zero star review from the Guardian!
Netflix
Nihal: “Is ‘Buying…
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Must Watch reviews: Rebus
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell joins 5 Live presenter Felicity Hannah to review the TV adaptation of the best-selling Rebus crime novels.
Rebus reimagines the iconic character John Rebus, played by Richard Rankin, as a younger Detective Sergeant, drawn into a violent criminal conflict that turns personal.
Shaken after a violent encounter with gangster Ger Cafferty, Edinburgh detective John Rebus finds himself at a psychological crossroads. At odds with a job increasingly driven by corporate technocrats, involved in a…
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Must Watch reviews 'Dark Matter'
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to review ‘Dark Matter’.
It's an Apple TV+ science fiction series created by Blake Crouch, who also wrote the book.
It follows a scientist, who is kidnapped, injected with a weird serum and then wakes up in an alternative universe.
His wife isn’t his wife, his mate isn’t his mate and he’s in a different job.
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Must Watch reviews: Doctor Who
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to review Doctor Who.
The much-loved sci-fi series is back, starring newcomers Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday. The first double-bill of the new era of the Doctor is here with episodes ‘Space Babies’ and ‘The Devil’s Cord’ from the creative mind of writer Russell T Davies.
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Must Watch reviews Miriam: Death of a Reality Star
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Siobhan Synnot and Scott Bryan join 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to review Miriam: Death of a Reality Star.
The Channel 4 three-part documentary series follows the story of Miriam Rivera, a transgender woman who was the centre of controversial reality series There’s Something About Miriam.
Miriam as seen on the 2005 programme 'There's something about Miriam' (Credit: Channel 4)
‘More…