Well, hello and welcome to Binge Watch, the podcast where we take a look at the hottest
new TV and film releases on streaming television platforms. I'm Hannah Fernando, the group editor
of Woman and Woman and Phone magazine. And I'm Ian McEwen, writer on TV Satellite Week, TV
Times and What's on TV magazines. Not to mention what'sawatch.com. And today we're looking at
the new releases that will be available on Friday, the 7th of March, 2025, including crime drama,
Get Millie Black. Channel for streaming and ITVX period true crime drama A Cruel Love,
The Ruth Ellis Story about the last woman to be executed in the UK. And we'll also be checking
out Martin Compton in creepy thriller Fear on Prime and Miss Scarlett flying solo on You.
But first Ian, what is in the news? The propulsive ITVX thriller Red Eye is filming again with
Ying Lucy reprising her role as DS Hannah Lee alongside Leslie Sharp and look out for in
this week Martin Compton what else is in the news? And the second season of the highly anticipated
The Walking Dead, Dead City will premiere in June on Sky and streaming service now. Well
if you like crime drama you're in luck because there's a lot of it in this week's pod. We're
going to start on prime video with a new thriller which arrived on Tuesday the 4th of March.
It's called Fear. And here's a clip. Welcome to Glasgow kids. Wow. Do you like it? Yeah.
Do we have the whole thing? No the whole thing. We don't have the basement. I'll just go inside.
I'm from downstairs. Lentil soup. Thank you. Bye.
Here's to good neighbours, see you soon. I like watching you. What? Yes, it's the old case
of the creepy neighbour, Hannah, isn't it? So this one stars Line of Duty's Martin Compton,
but he's able to do his normal Scottish accent because it's set in Glasgow. He plays an architect.
Why are they always architects? You ask yourself. He's Martin and his wife is Rebecca played
by Angie Mohindra from the Lazarus Project and they moved from London to this gorgeous house
in Glasgow. Very, very nice with their two young kids. But of course as the old story goes the
dream home turns into a nightmare.
and it's a palatial beautiful old building. In the basement you have Yan played by Solly
McLeod who he doesn't look like your typical creepy neighbor from a thriller or a horror.
He looks quite normal, his flat looks you know pretty comfortable and nice. He gives them
a welcome present and a card but of course before too long he starts crossing certain red lines
and Yeah, I won't give too much away because yes, and he employs some interesting tactics
to terrorize the family upstairs, but there's more to it than meets the eye. Meanwhile, I
found a particularly interesting Martin Constance character, Martin. His family background is
quite intriguing, so there's a rather awkward visit to his mum and dad, which goes horribly
wrong. And then there's also some sort of question marks over his work life as well. He sort of
starts covering things up and then not telling his, his wife, what's really happening. So
I've watched episode one. It's good. I liked it. I mean, it's a classic trope, isn't it?
But I think it's really well done. It's interesting and set in Glasgow where my old man is from,
of course. Hannah, is that one for you? Do you think too scary? Do you know what it's, um,
It is pretty horrible, it's pretty scary, and I think it's also because, like you say, don't
want to give away too much. But basically the accusations made and the horrors that go on,
I suppose realistically anyone could do against anybody, and that's what's so scary. And the
fact the authorities don't really want to do much about it at all is even scarier. So it
is a... It is frightening. I think fear is the right title for it. I think it's... I saw the
first episode. keen to watch more of it and it's just it's just an absolute nightmare for
a family who thought that they were setting up a life of happiness in their dream family
home so it's an edge of your seat one isn't it really good stuff well from chilly Glasgow
to sun-kissed Jamaica yes with a new crime drama which arrived on Wednesday the 5th of March
on Channel 4 streaming it's called get
It won't add up. It won't make sense. But like every story about this country, there's a ghost
story. They call this ghost. Ring the alarm, ring the alarm, ring the alarm. You managed
to get out of here. Why you come back?
for a boy. You expect to find this one alive detective? Yes. So as you say, this is certainly
not the cold streets of Glasgow. This is really rather hot where this one is set and I've watched
the first episode of this and I'm, I'm really keen. It's a five-part. I'm really keen to
watch the rest that tells you that it spiked my interest. It's It's gritty is probably what
I would say, very, very gritty. It was created by the Booker Prize winning novelist Marlon
James. And it's about, it keeps talking about ghosts when he first, it takes a little while
to get into it. Because at the beginning, they sort of thought, you know, about ghosts, they
still haunt you alive or they're dead. And the scene that you see. immediately is upsetting,
it's immediately offensive and assaults the senses and had me feeling quite sort of upset.
The language is pretty ripe in places, you know, it's very... not in a sense that, you know,
being sweary for the sake of being sweary, it feels right I should say, but it's got that
sort of gritty feel to it and this is a... quite a... I mean...
It follows a detective and she has she was she lived in Jamaica She was taken to the UK to
live with family by her awful mother well, she mother didn't take her she sent her off and
left her brother behind and She thought her brother was dead And this is what they're she's
saying about ghosts whether they're living or dead. They're there to haunt you and She goes
back to Jamaica some years later when she's a detective and you see her and getting involved
in a crime, trying to see who done it basically. And she's a little bit too close because it
reminds her of her own situation, so at what point does she cross the line of this being
something that is important to her versus what she needs to do as... I really enjoyed what
I've seen so far, so I think it's really gritty. It's not something you can get on and do something
else at the same time, you really need to watch. So, you know, it turns out that her brother...
isn't dead, he's alive and actually is living as a woman. And so it kind of, they brought
in the kind of another community of people, I think they've done that really incredibly
well actually. And I think that it will be well received on that front because it's a sort
of tricky subject, particularly in Jamaica where they are, where crime is high, the poverty
is high. It feels very raw, it feels very real, incredibly credible and incredibly sad in so
many ways. And an amazement that this woman, after everything she's been through if you
like, has come out as strong as she has. So I really enjoyed it. Ian. Yeah I thought it
was very good. You can tell it's written by a Booker Prize-winning novelist because the
narration is quite poetic and really well done. Tomorrow Lawrence plays Milly Jean and there
is a bit of a common thread in this week's podcast because childhood trauma is a bit of a theme
without giving too much away. You've got China McQueen playing hibiscus and you're kind of
seeing the underbelly of Jamaica as well as sort of the rich people who live there. And
we also have Joe Dempsey playing a Scotland Yard inspector who turns up with his own agenda.
Over on ITVX. We have a true crime drama which arrived on Wednesday the 5th. It's called A
Cruel Love, The Ruth Ellis Story and here is a clip.
I will make him see who and what you are. So I think it's a story that most people are familiar
with and it has been dramatized before, but Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged
in 1955. She was found guilty of murdering her lover, David Blakely. So Lucy Boynton plays
Ruth with her very distinctive peroxide blonde hairdo. She was a nightclub manager and she
falls for this guy, David, bit of a playboy and a racing driver and he's also quite violent.
Meanwhile Mark Stanley who's cropping up in a lot of stuff, he was in Happy Value, he's
one of her customers who could offer her a good life but she's sort of drawn to the exciting
dangerous guy and of course it all goes horribly wrong. And you've got Toby Jones from Mr Bates
vs the Post Office and lots of other things and he is always superb and he's great in this
he plays her solicitor John. And initially Ruth says no, she says immediately to the police
I'm guilty and she signs a confession and she says you know I'm going to plead guilty at
the trial, I deserve to be punished, I did it. But he learns about the violence, the domestic
violence and he tries to persuade her not to go down that road. So from what I've seen,
I've only seen episode one, it's one of those things that we do really well a period piece,
hair, costume, make-up look great, it's got a strong cast. I think it's a good retelling
of a familiar story. What do you think, Hannah? Yeah, I absolutely agree. But also just, you
know, kind of brings up the whole death sentence and everything that goes with that and just
how, you know, we all have lost somebody that there's no going back, is there? You know,
and re-looking at those cases and what people go through in the run-up to that. Yeah, really
interesting. Oh my goodness, it's yet another crime drama. In this case, a period one. Well,
it's a familiar sounding one. It used to be called Miss Scarlet and the Duke, but it is
returning as Miss Scarlet. It arrived on Wednesday the 5th, available on You and Alibi, Skybox
sets, Now and Virgin TV box sets. He's not coming back. Inspector Wellington won't be returning
from New York. The smart money is on a detective inspector from Bristol, Alexander Blake. Inspector
Blake, I presume? Yes. Scarlett. Please shut the door on the way out. He doesn't use private
detectives. Yep, I think everybody thought or was a bit worried that this wasn't going to
return because of course, Stuart Martin quit the role of William, the Duke of Wellington,
and I don't think anyone thought it would return and of course, you know, it was popular but
yep, she's back, Miss Eliza Scarlett is back with Kate Phillips playing the private detective.
I don't know if you were a fan, Ian, originally of this series, and I actually went back a
bit and watched some of the original one to sort of remember what all the hype was kind
of about previously. But this is six parts and this is Eliza kind of moving on, if you like.
You're seeing a new relationship, you know, is it going to be a... dog's about to squeal.
Is it going to be a big relationship? You know, is this a professional relationship as well?
So is there going to be a romance there too? So that's kind of, you know, you're kind of
waiting and wondering on that front. She takes the main position now. And I think it works
really well because I think before it was very much about him. And I don't know, it's nice
to see a woman in the lead, isn't it? Nice to see. a girl up front and I think there's got
some really sort of funny fun parts I should say to it. I've seen the first episode of this
and some fun parts to this and I don't think people will feel disappointed at all. I think
it's been brought back in a way that will pique the interest of the people that liked it before
but won't let them down because somebody's not there anymore if that makes sense.
Yeah, I'm pleased that it's continuing even though Stuart Martin has left and I guess the
door is open. His character's gone off to New York for a job opportunity. I guess the door's
open for him possibly to come back or who knows for her to go to New York and join him. And
yeah, we've got Tom Durant Pritchard from The Windsors joining us the new Scotland Yard Detective
Inspector, Alexander Blake, who famously doesn't use private detectives. So... Yeah, first up,
Eliza's got to persuade him of how useful she can be when they're investigating the case
of a missing lord. So yeah, I'm pleased to see it's back and I think it still works, even
with a slight change of personnel. Now we've got to that time, Hannah, where we find out
what you've been binge watching this week, so tell us all. Well I've been catching up on
some of the Dragon's Den, I've really enjoyed it, we've had some surprise appearances as
we know we've already discussed but yeah, really enjoying that. And also the great Pottery Corridor
which I love. How about you? Well I watched a film all about Pauline Black, the lead singer
of The Selector because I'm interviewing her tomorrow and I'm very excited. Now we've just
got time to look ahead to next week's offering so what's on the binge watch menu Hannah? Well
a 13 year old is accused of murder in Stephen Graham's crime drama Adolescents on Netflix.
Which is very good, I might add. And two friends pose as DEA agents to rob drug dealers into
the old story in the Apple TV thriller Dope Thief. So we look forward to those and much,
much more. But in the meantime, listeners...