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Alien Earth tells us that in the future, the race for immortality will come in 3 guises: Cybernetically enhanced humans: Cyborgs Artificially-intelligent beings: Synths Synthetic beings downloaded with human consciousness: Hybrids Which technology prevails will …
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A Spy Among Friends is the first drama to premiere on ITV’s new streaming channel, ITVX, which replaces the old ITV Hub, but the new name reminds me of TVX, aka Television X, and you …
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The Trick centres around Phil Jones (Jason Watkins – Line of Duty), who was the keynote speaker at COP15, aka the Climate Change Conference 2009, in London. It deals with the subject of “Climategate”, in …
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The Pact centres around a group of friends working at a brewery, led by Laura Fraser (Traces) as Alice, who tries to apply for the supervisor position, but boss Jack (Aneurin Barnard) is such a …
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Out Of Her Mind is another of those sitcoms ‘loosely based’ on the writer/creator’s own life, this time being comedian Sara Pascoe – unsurprisingly, as ‘Sara’ – talking directly to the camera, the main basis …
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Summer Of Rockets is a new Stephen Poliakoff drama set around the beginning of the Cold War, circa 1957/58, and while I’ve not really been able to get into his earlier works, this one did …
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Cheat begins with University lecturer Dr Leah Dale (Katherine Kelly – Doctor Who spin-off Class) and final year student Rose (Molly Windsor – Three Girls) on opposite sites of a prison cell window, before we …
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Save Me centres around Nelly (Lennie James), rather a modern day Arthur Daley, doing a bit of wheeling and dealing here and there, rather than a proper job. He has principles to a degree, but …
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Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi treads a very well-worn path: The First Order want to obliterate the Resistance out of existence, and the Resistance don’t really want that, and have to fight back. …
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Bancroft… Anne Bancroft… no, that’s The Graduate. This, however, begins in 1990, and the song “Killer“, by Adamski and Seal. Of course, anyone with a brain knows that 1990 was time for the Guru, but …
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