‘Suspects’ Episode 1 review

Channel 5, not traditionally known for supporting home-grown talent unless it’s emerging from a reality show, has piggy-banked enough to air its first original drama in nine years: Suspects. It’s a police procedural, shot in documentary style, and it’s semi-improved by the cast – are the alarm bells in your head ringing yet?

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‘The Tunnel’ Episode 7 review

Is anyone else watching The Tunnel? Or is that slight echo as we’re watching just something wrong with our TV? Never mind, you’re here now and that’s all that matters. And just in time to see the plot move incrementally forward!

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‘Orphan Black’: ‘Effects of External Conditions’ review

‘Effects of External Conditions’ is all about the chase. Orphan Black wastes no time in getting the police on the trail of the mysterious clone introduced towards the end of the last episode. Meanwhile, Sarah continues to use her connections with Alison and Cosima to assist her deceit as they both help her out in different ways.

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‘Doctor Who’: ‘Night of the Whisper’ (‘Destiny of the Doctor’ 9) audiobook review

‘Night of the Whisper’ is a rare thing indeed, a non-televised adventure for the Ninth Doctor.

Other than the half a dozen novels and handful of comic strip appearances that appeared at the time, Christopher Eccleston’s short stint as the Time Lord has not seen much expansion. AudioGO tend to make audio adventures for the incumbent Doctor and Big Finish’ license precludes anything pre-2005.

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‘Bates Motel’ preview

In 1960 a film by the name of Psycho was released and, worldwide, monocles collectively dropped into cups of Earl Grey.

Fifty-three years on, Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal thriller has had a glossy TV makeover; at once shunted into the modern day and sent back in time, to when cinema’s most famous psychopath Norman Bates was just a shy 17-year-old with an overbearing mother.

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Win Adam Sandler DVDs with ‘Grown Ups 2’!

To celebrate the release of Grown Ups 2 at cinemas from Friday, we’ve got Adam Sandler Triple Collection DVDs (containing Grown Ups, Click and You Don’t Mess With The Zohan) to give away to five of our Twitter followers!

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‘Luther’: Series 3 Episode 2 review

It’s manna from heaven for fans of John Luther’s coat in this episode (surely the greatest villain we’ve yet to meet in the show is a killer with a fetish for grey tweed outerwear) as a search of his house by anti-corruption cops Stark and Gray reveals not just one but a whole rack of them.

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