Alex explains ITVX, Kelly recommends Apple TV+ spy drama Slow Horses, and Steven takes a closer look at the Stephen Fry's classic sitcom Absolute Power.
Screen Babble will also release a short episode every Friday morning outlining what you should aim to watch over the weekend and beyond. Should you watch [A Spy Among Friends](/culture/television/a-spy-among-friends-itvx-release-date-trailer-cast-damien-lewis-guy-pearce-true-story-kim-philby-3941672), [The Confessions of Frannie Langton](/culture/television/the-confessions-of-frannie-langton-itvx-release-date-trailer-and-cast-with-karla-simone-spence-3942157), or [Tell Me Everything](/culture/television/tell-me-everything-itvx-release-date-trailer-cast-eden-h-davies-carla-woodcock-callina-liang-3943125)? And what can you look forward to on ITVX across the rest of the year? [No More Jockeys](/culture/television/no-more-jockeys-set-5-what-youtube-show-mark-watson-alex-horne-tim-key-when-new-series-out-3829746) (play along at home: no more Screen Babble hosts!) and coming up to the end of his fifth marathon of The UK Office. [ITVX](/topic/itvx), breaking down how the new streaming service works and telling you everything you need to know about its debut drama slate. [Screen Babble](/topic/screen-babble) is your essential guide to everything on television, from the mainstream to the marginal.
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Despite the heroism and quick thinking shown by disgraced MI5 agent River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) in Season 1 of “Slow Horses,” he's back at Slough House ...
So I think he would eventually miss him. Replies Lowden, “I don’t think he would miss him at all. “But I think it’s gonna take a while.”
The London-set Apple TV+ show is like John le Carré with gags – and the best insults since Veep, writes Catherine McGregor. This is an excerpt from The ...
You watch it for the depiction of authentically messy spycraft, for the snappy pacing, for the London locations (which have had a subtle glow-up since wintry season one), and for the best intra-office insults since Veep. There are nine other books in Mick Herron’s Slough House series – here’s hoping Gary Oldman and crew are around for many more seasons to come. It’s John le Carré with really good jokes, where nothing works out as it should (until, somehow, eventually, it does), and even the team’s most ambitious and talented young agent – in fact, especially him – gets thwarted at every turn, often by those on his own side. “Slow horses” is a nickname for the disgraced agents sent to Slough House, the grotty MI5 outpost at the centre of Mick Herron’s series of spy novels of the same name. He’s great in every scene he shambles into, but the ones with his boss, MI5 bigwig Diana Taverner (Kristin Scott Thomas), and his protégé, River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), are where you find the real gold. When Apple TV+ decided to start adapting Herron’s books it was presumably decided that “Slough House” was too mundane a title, or perhaps too redolent of the smell of
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The Slough House agents are back for another thrilling mission this December, and series regulars Dustin Demri-Burns and Christopher Chung have spoken to ...
Meanwhile, River heads to Upshott under his new alias. It's a risky game but Jackson is essentially using River as a pawn to flush out the cicada killer, whom ...