

Bingewatch
Hannah Fernando & Ian MacEwan
Bingewatch is your essential TV guide with journalists Ian MacEwan and Hannah Fernando featuring the latest releases on UK streaming platforms including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Paramount+ and more.
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Jan 19, 2023 • 21min
The Last of Us | Everyone Else Burns | Bad Education | The Sex Lives of College Girls
 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 upstanding young women who just want to get laid.(14:23) And finally, BBC3 are bringing back Bad Education, but if you're a Jack Whitehall fan don't get too excited. This has a brand new look and a brand new cast... but the same poor teaching standards to keep Ofsted busy for another series.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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 

Jan 12, 2023 • 22min
Bank of Dave | Dog Gone | Hunters | Servant
 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 continues to threaten an otherwise happy marriage in Servant on Apple TV.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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 

Jan 6, 2023 • 25min
Happy Valley | The Rig | Welcome to Chippendales | Reginald the Vampire
 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 vampire comedy drama, as Reginald the Vampire hits NOW TV - but is it worth the binge?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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 

Dec 22, 2022 • 26min
Stonehouse | Treason | The Witcher: Blood Origin | Riches | Jamie vs Britney: The Father Daughter Trials
 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 prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origins starring Michelle Yeoh and Lenny Henry (yeah, the Premier Inn guy).From ITVX and also available on Amazon Prime Video is Riches, a glossy family drama about money, death, business and scandal, starring Deborah Ayorinde. It's glamour, it's style, and it's a must watch if you just can't take any more Real Housewives.If you haven't had a big enough Britney fix this year, Discovery Plus is here to save you with Jamie vs Britney: The Father Daughter Trials. The series, as you would expect, provides another look at one of the biggest court cases in recent years, as popstar Britney Spears battled to free herself from the conservatorship held by her father Jamie.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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 

Dec 16, 2022 • 23min
Litvinenko | National Treasure: Edge of History | If These Walls Could Sing | Gangsta Granny Strikes Again!
 This week on Bingewatch, Ian and Hannah cover everything from rogue grandmas to Russian spies. Just what you need to get in the Christmas spirit!Way back when Russia were not at war with Ukraine, they resorted to more discreet tactics... such as poisoning double agents. Unfortunately, Litvinenko garnered a little more press than Putin would have liked, and now David Tennant brings it back to life in the new drama on ITVX.Lovable family adventure series National Treasure, once helmed by Ben Stiller, is not immune to the Disney+ makeover. Lisette Olivera and Catherine Zeta-Jones take the lead in the 10 part first season of National Treasure: Edge of History, available now.Chronicling the stories and the legends to grace the famous Abbey Road studios, rockumentary If These Walls Could Sing is now available on Disney Plus.Comedian-turned-bestselling author-turned-disgrace talent show judge David Walliams hasn't waited long to get back on our screens, as Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! Watch on BBC iPlayer.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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 

Dec 9, 2022 • 23min
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Harry & Meghan | Plebs | Something from TIffany's
 Welcome to Bingewatch, your essential guide to the newest and biggest TV & films across UK streaming platforms, presented by journalists Hannah Fernando & Ian MacEwan. This week on the podcast:Oscar winning director Guillermo del Toro brings us the second adaptation of Pinocchio this year. Following in the footsteps of Robert Zemeckis & Disney Plus, this version on Netflix is not so family friendly, but is it worth the watch?No doubt one of the talking points of the year will be new Netflix documentary series Harry & Meghan, which gives a platform to the former Duke & Duchess of Sussex to tell their story in their words. Get ready for the explosion of tabloid headlines!Popular ITV comedy series Plebs makes a return for one final feature-length bow, as the inbetweeners of ancient Rome brush off their grey hairs and make one last feeble effort to fit in.It wouldn't be December without a swathe of new Christmas movies to keep us all teary-eyed, but will Amazon Prime Video's Something from Tiffany's be tears of festive joy or Grinch-level despair?If you like this episode, you may also like:The latest series of The CrownPinocchio on Disney PlusFollow 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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 

Dec 1, 2022 • 22min
The Patient | Three Pines | Avenue 5 | We Are Not Alone
 This week on Bingewatch...(02:00) Steve Carell kidnaps his therapist to cure him of his serial killer ways in The Patient on Disney Plus.(05:27) Creepy crime drama Three Pinesb starring Alfred Molina and Rossif Sutherland on Prime Video.(10:37) Sci-Fi comedy We Are Not Alone - think Third Rock from the Sun made by Dave.(14:49) Hugh Laurie and his hapless space team are back in Avenue 5 season 2.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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 

Nov 24, 2022 • 20min
Echo 3 | Wednesday | Upright | Vardy vs Rooney: The Wagatha Trial
 This week on Bingewatch:(01:40) New war drama Echo 3 from the makers of The Hurt Locker, streaming on Apple TV(05:27) Tim Burton brings The Addams Family to Netflix with new series Wednesday starring Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Christina Ricci(10:52) Tim Minchin's comedy Upright returns for a second season, following the trials and tribulations of two backpackers in Australia, and it's on Now TV.(14:49) Something on Discovery+ for the WAG lovers out there, as Vardy vs Rooney: The Wagatha Trial tells the story of Colleen Rooney and Rebecca Vardy's high profile feud which went all the way to courtFollow 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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 

Nov 18, 2022 • 20min
1899 | Tulsa King | Hurst: The First and Only | The People We Hate at the Wedding
 This week on Bingewatch...(01:23) Bermuda Triangle period drama 1899 on Netflix(05:36) Sylvester Stallone stars in gangster drama Tulsa King on Paramount+(10:20) Hurst: The First and Only biopics an English football legend on Now TV(13:29) Family feuds erupt in The People We All Hate at the Wedding on Prime VideoFollow 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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 

Nov 10, 2022 • 20min
The Crown | Mammals | Dangerous Liaisons | Save Our Squad
 This week on Bingewatch...(01:24) James Corden returns to scripted comedy in Mammals on Prime Video(06:13) The highly anticipated fifth season of The Crown arrives on Netflix, helmed by Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II(10:19) Lionsgate+ (formerly Starz) gives Dangerous Liaisons the TV treatment in a new series(14:08) David Beckham meets Kitchen Nightmares in Save Our Squad, where the England football legend returns to his roots to help out a fledgling team.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 support and leave a tip for Ian and Hannah.You can also stay in touch with the team via Twitter AND if you like Bingewatch but you're looking for a specific review, check out BITESIZE BINGEWATCH, our sister show making it easier to get the bits you want!Discover your next favourite restaurant with NeoTaste, the exclusive membership unlocking huge discounts at hundreds of restaurants. Get 2 MONTHS FREE on us! Simply use the code BINGE at checkout. Sign up here: https://bingewatch.captivate.fm/neotaste For ad and sponsorship enquiries, email liam@mercurypodcasts.com now! 


