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Must Watch reviews: Colin from Accounts
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Naga Munchetty to review Australian comedy ‘Colin from Accounts’.
The much-loved comedy is back for a second season after the 主播大秀 acquired rights to the show earlier this year.
Created, written by and starring Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the eight-part series centres on their characters, Ashley and Gordon, two single(ish), complex humans who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog.
Credit: 主播大秀/CBS Studios/Paramount+
‘There is no joke that’s too gross for them’
Naga: “I've heard so much about Colin from Accounts, and I think I'd seen before now about three or four minutes of it and I never really got it. I was talking to one of my friends, she just went, ‘I really like it because it's just like hanging out with friends’. Now I get it. I do get it.
“So, Hayley, is it a Must Watch?”.
Hayley: “Absolutely. It was in the first season and it is鈥�
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Must Watch reviews 鈥楽herwood鈥�
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Holly Hamilton to review ‘Sherwood’.
The 主播大秀 One drama, written and created by James Graham, looks at families in a Nottinghamshire mining village.
The first series explored the ongoing rifts between those who picketed and those who decided to go back to work during the 1984-5 miners’ strike, through the lens of two fictional murders in the area.
The second series, which continues to star David Morrissey and Lesley Manville, looks at the area through a different lens, looking at how the closure of the mines resulted in a rise in criminal and gang related activity and reopened wounds the area was trying to heal.
Holly: “I have to say I did really enjoy season one. So how will series two fair?”
Scott: “You’re exactly right with the cast. It was like they went with season one and they thought who the other greatest actors in the country are -鈥�
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Must Watch reviews 鈥楰idnapped: The Chloe Ayling story鈥�
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Steffan Powell to review ‘Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling story’.
It tells the true crime story of Ayling’s abduction in Italy in 2017, having travelled there for a photoshoot.
It’s based on detailed research, extensive interviews, documented legal proceedings and Chloe’s own book. It follows the kidnap itself, her escape, and the court case that put her captors in jail.
It also covers the media storm in the UK, in which Ayling was accused of faking her own kidnapping for publicity.
Steffan: “Hayley, is it a Must Watch?"
Hayley: “I really wanted to like this, but I found it too slow. I wish it had spent less time on the actual crime and more time on the media aftermath which, is the thing I think really sets this crime apart from other ones, and is the reason it would get a series like this.
“Obviously, the crime stuff is horrible鈥�
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Must Watch reviews: Daddy Issues
When hedonistic 24 year old Gemma discovers she’s pregnant after a random hook-up, she has no choice but to turn to her hapless father, Malcolm, for support.
Malcolm is unable to load a washing machine, boil an egg or microwave rice without it exploding. Up until now, he’s been living in squalor with a fellow divorcee until Gemma asks him to move in with her.
Daddy Issues is a big hearted story about a father and daughter, and the reality of facing up to parenthood - at any stage of life, but is it a Must Watch?
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Must Watch reviews 鈥楾he Turkish Detective鈥�
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 Turkish Detective’.
It’s based on a long-running series of books by the English crime writer Barbara Nadel.
In the series, a Turkish born, British raised police officer transfers from London to Istanbul where he solves crimes with his eccentric boss.
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Must Watch reviews 鈥楾he Jetty鈥�
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.
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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
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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.
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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 鈥楲ost Boys and Fairies鈥�
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 主播大秀 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.
