Glasgow, Jamaica, Ooh I Wanna Take Ya...

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Well, hello and welcome to Binge Watch, the podcast where we take a look at the hottest

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new TV and film releases on streaming television platforms. I'm Hannah Fernando, the group editor

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of Woman and Woman and Phone magazine. And I'm Ian McEwen, writer on TV Satellite Week, TV

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Times and What's on TV magazines. Not to mention what'sawatch.com. And today we're looking at

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the new releases that will be available on Friday, the 7th of March, 2025, including crime drama,

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Get Millie Black. Channel for streaming and ITVX period true crime drama A Cruel Love,

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The Ruth Ellis Story about the last woman to be executed in the UK. And we'll also be checking

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out Martin Compton in creepy thriller Fear on Prime and Miss Scarlett flying solo on You.

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But first Ian, what is in the news? The propulsive ITVX thriller Red Eye is filming again with

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Ying Lucy reprising her role as DS Hannah Lee alongside Leslie Sharp and look out for in

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this week Martin Compton what else is in the news? And the second season of the highly anticipated

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The Walking Dead, Dead City will premiere in June on Sky and streaming service now. Well

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if you like crime drama you're in luck because there's a lot of it in this week's pod. We're

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going to start on prime video with a new thriller which arrived on Tuesday the 4th of March.

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It's called Fear. And here's a clip. Welcome to Glasgow kids. Wow. Do you like it? Yeah.

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Do we have the whole thing? No the whole thing. We don't have the basement. I'll just go inside.

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I'm from downstairs. Lentil soup. Thank you. Bye.

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Here's to good neighbours, see you soon. I like watching you. What? Yes, it's the old case

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of the creepy neighbour, Hannah, isn't it? So this one stars Line of Duty's Martin Compton,

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but he's able to do his normal Scottish accent because it's set in Glasgow. He plays an architect.

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Why are they always architects? You ask yourself. He's Martin and his wife is Rebecca played

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by Angie Mohindra from the Lazarus Project and they moved from London to this gorgeous house

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in Glasgow. Very, very nice with their two young kids. But of course as the old story goes the

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dream home turns into a nightmare.

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and it's a palatial beautiful old building. In the basement you have Yan played by Solly

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McLeod who he doesn't look like your typical creepy neighbor from a thriller or a horror.

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He looks quite normal, his flat looks you know pretty comfortable and nice. He gives them

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a welcome present and a card but of course before too long he starts crossing certain red lines

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and Yeah, I won't give too much away because yes, and he employs some interesting tactics

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to terrorize the family upstairs, but there's more to it than meets the eye. Meanwhile, I

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found a particularly interesting Martin Constance character, Martin. His family background is

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quite intriguing, so there's a rather awkward visit to his mum and dad, which goes horribly

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wrong. And then there's also some sort of question marks over his work life as well. He sort of

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starts covering things up and then not telling his, his wife, what's really happening. So

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I've watched episode one. It's good. I liked it. I mean, it's a classic trope, isn't it?

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But I think it's really well done. It's interesting and set in Glasgow where my old man is from,

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of course. Hannah, is that one for you? Do you think too scary? Do you know what it's, um,

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It is pretty horrible, it's pretty scary, and I think it's also because, like you say, don't

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want to give away too much. But basically the accusations made and the horrors that go on,

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I suppose realistically anyone could do against anybody, and that's what's so scary. And the

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fact the authorities don't really want to do much about it at all is even scarier. So it

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is a... It is frightening. I think fear is the right title for it. I think it's... I saw the

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first episode. keen to watch more of it and it's just it's just an absolute nightmare for

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a family who thought that they were setting up a life of happiness in their dream family

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home so it's an edge of your seat one isn't it really good stuff well from chilly Glasgow

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to sun-kissed Jamaica yes with a new crime drama which arrived on Wednesday the 5th of March

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on Channel 4 streaming it's called get

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It won't add up. It won't make sense. But like every story about this country, there's a ghost

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story. They call this ghost. Ring the alarm, ring the alarm, ring the alarm. You managed

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to get out of here. Why you come back?

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for a boy. You expect to find this one alive detective? Yes. So as you say, this is certainly

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not the cold streets of Glasgow. This is really rather hot where this one is set and I've watched

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the first episode of this and I'm, I'm really keen. It's a five-part. I'm really keen to

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watch the rest that tells you that it spiked my interest. It's It's gritty is probably what

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I would say, very, very gritty. It was created by the Booker Prize winning novelist Marlon

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James. And it's about, it keeps talking about ghosts when he first, it takes a little while

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to get into it. Because at the beginning, they sort of thought, you know, about ghosts, they

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still haunt you alive or they're dead. And the scene that you see. immediately is upsetting,

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it's immediately offensive and assaults the senses and had me feeling quite sort of upset.

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The language is pretty ripe in places, you know, it's very... not in a sense that, you know,

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being sweary for the sake of being sweary, it feels right I should say, but it's got that

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sort of gritty feel to it and this is a... quite a... I mean...

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It follows a detective and she has she was she lived in Jamaica She was taken to the UK to

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live with family by her awful mother well, she mother didn't take her she sent her off and

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left her brother behind and She thought her brother was dead And this is what they're she's

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saying about ghosts whether they're living or dead. They're there to haunt you and She goes

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back to Jamaica some years later when she's a detective and you see her and getting involved

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in a crime, trying to see who done it basically. And she's a little bit too close because it

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reminds her of her own situation, so at what point does she cross the line of this being

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something that is important to her versus what she needs to do as... I really enjoyed what

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I've seen so far, so I think it's really gritty. It's not something you can get on and do something

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else at the same time, you really need to watch. So, you know, it turns out that her brother...

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isn't dead, he's alive and actually is living as a woman. And so it kind of, they brought

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in the kind of another community of people, I think they've done that really incredibly

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well actually. And I think that it will be well received on that front because it's a sort

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of tricky subject, particularly in Jamaica where they are, where crime is high, the poverty

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is high. It feels very raw, it feels very real, incredibly credible and incredibly sad in so

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many ways. And an amazement that this woman, after everything she's been through if you

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like, has come out as strong as she has. So I really enjoyed it. Ian. Yeah I thought it

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was very good. You can tell it's written by a Booker Prize-winning novelist because the

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narration is quite poetic and really well done. Tomorrow Lawrence plays Milly Jean and there

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is a bit of a common thread in this week's podcast because childhood trauma is a bit of a theme

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without giving too much away. You've got China McQueen playing hibiscus and you're kind of

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seeing the underbelly of Jamaica as well as sort of the rich people who live there. And

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we also have Joe Dempsey playing a Scotland Yard inspector who turns up with his own agenda.

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Over on ITVX. We have a true crime drama which arrived on Wednesday the 5th. It's called A

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Cruel Love, The Ruth Ellis Story and here is a clip.

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I will make him see who and what you are. So I think it's a story that most people are familiar

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with and it has been dramatized before, but Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged

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in 1955. She was found guilty of murdering her lover, David Blakely. So Lucy Boynton plays

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Ruth with her very distinctive peroxide blonde hairdo. She was a nightclub manager and she

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falls for this guy, David, bit of a playboy and a racing driver and he's also quite violent.

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Meanwhile Mark Stanley who's cropping up in a lot of stuff, he was in Happy Value, he's

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one of her customers who could offer her a good life but she's sort of drawn to the exciting

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dangerous guy and of course it all goes horribly wrong. And you've got Toby Jones from Mr Bates

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vs the Post Office and lots of other things and he is always superb and he's great in this

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he plays her solicitor John. And initially Ruth says no, she says immediately to the police

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I'm guilty and she signs a confession and she says you know I'm going to plead guilty at

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the trial, I deserve to be punished, I did it. But he learns about the violence, the domestic

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violence and he tries to persuade her not to go down that road. So from what I've seen,

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I've only seen episode one, it's one of those things that we do really well a period piece,

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hair, costume, make-up look great, it's got a strong cast. I think it's a good retelling

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of a familiar story. What do you think, Hannah? Yeah, I absolutely agree. But also just, you

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know, kind of brings up the whole death sentence and everything that goes with that and just

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how, you know, we all have lost somebody that there's no going back, is there? You know,

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and re-looking at those cases and what people go through in the run-up to that. Yeah, really

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interesting. Oh my goodness, it's yet another crime drama. In this case, a period one. Well,

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it's a familiar sounding one. It used to be called Miss Scarlet and the Duke, but it is

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returning as Miss Scarlet. It arrived on Wednesday the 5th, available on You and Alibi, Skybox

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sets, Now and Virgin TV box sets. He's not coming back. Inspector Wellington won't be returning

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from New York. The smart money is on a detective inspector from Bristol, Alexander Blake. Inspector

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Blake, I presume? Yes. Scarlett. Please shut the door on the way out. He doesn't use private

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detectives. Yep, I think everybody thought or was a bit worried that this wasn't going to

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return because of course, Stuart Martin quit the role of William, the Duke of Wellington,

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and I don't think anyone thought it would return and of course, you know, it was popular but

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yep, she's back, Miss Eliza Scarlett is back with Kate Phillips playing the private detective.

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I don't know if you were a fan, Ian, originally of this series, and I actually went back a

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bit and watched some of the original one to sort of remember what all the hype was kind

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of about previously. But this is six parts and this is Eliza kind of moving on, if you like.

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You're seeing a new relationship, you know, is it going to be a... dog's about to squeal.

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Is it going to be a big relationship? You know, is this a professional relationship as well?

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So is there going to be a romance there too? So that's kind of, you know, you're kind of

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waiting and wondering on that front. She takes the main position now. And I think it works

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really well because I think before it was very much about him. And I don't know, it's nice

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to see a woman in the lead, isn't it? Nice to see. a girl up front and I think there's got

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some really sort of funny fun parts I should say to it. I've seen the first episode of this

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and some fun parts to this and I don't think people will feel disappointed at all. I think

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it's been brought back in a way that will pique the interest of the people that liked it before

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but won't let them down because somebody's not there anymore if that makes sense.

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Yeah, I'm pleased that it's continuing even though Stuart Martin has left and I guess the

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door is open. His character's gone off to New York for a job opportunity. I guess the door's

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open for him possibly to come back or who knows for her to go to New York and join him. And

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yeah, we've got Tom Durant Pritchard from The Windsors joining us the new Scotland Yard Detective

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Inspector, Alexander Blake, who famously doesn't use private detectives. So... Yeah, first up,

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Eliza's got to persuade him of how useful she can be when they're investigating the case

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of a missing lord. So yeah, I'm pleased to see it's back and I think it still works, even

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with a slight change of personnel. Now we've got to that time, Hannah, where we find out

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what you've been binge watching this week, so tell us all. Well I've been catching up on

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some of the Dragon's Den, I've really enjoyed it, we've had some surprise appearances as

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we know we've already discussed but yeah, really enjoying that. And also the great Pottery Corridor

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which I love. How about you? Well I watched a film all about Pauline Black, the lead singer

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of The Selector because I'm interviewing her tomorrow and I'm very excited. Now we've just

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got time to look ahead to next week's offering so what's on the binge watch menu Hannah? Well

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a 13 year old is accused of murder in Stephen Graham's crime drama Adolescents on Netflix.

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Which is very good, I might add. And two friends pose as DEA agents to rob drug dealers into

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the old story in the Apple TV thriller Dope Thief. So we look forward to those and much,

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much more. But in the meantime, listeners...