Catch up TV reviews: Go 8 Bit DLC, The Fake News Show, Ivanka Trump

What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5. (For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Designated Survivor: Episode 21 (Brace for Impact)

Warning: This contains spoilers

“I have seen the one thing that will bind us all together,” says President Kirkman in the Season 1 finale of Designated Survivor. The audience tenses up. Is he going to say it? He’s not going … Read More

Amazon eyes March release for David Oyelowo and Charlize Theron’s Gringo

Amazon is eyeing a March 2018 release for its next original film, Gringo.

The movie is a co-production between STX Entertainment and Amazon Studios. Directed by Nash Edgerton, brother to Joel Edgerton, it marks the filmmaker’s second feature project, following … Read More

UK TV recap: Arrow, Season 5, Episode 21 (Honor Thy Fathers)

Prometheus readies his endgame and the flashbacks come full circle in an episode that finds fun uses for concrete.Read More

Amazon UK TV review: Into the Badlands Season 2, Episode 9

Season 2 sets the stage for the finale with a functional but revealing penultimate episode.Read More

Car Share drives BBC iPlayer views up 23pc

Peter Kay’s Car Share helped to drive BBC iPlayer to a strong April.

Use of the Beeb’s catch-up service traditionally declines in the second quarter of the year, as views drop off in March, April, May and June. This spring, … Read More

What’s leaving Amazon Prime Video UK in May / June 2017?

From heartfelt sci-fi to stunning action, this is your last chance to stream the following on Amazon Prime Video:

Gravity – 20th May

Alfonso Cuaron’s survival thriller/sci-fi, which appears to unfold all in a single take, is nail-bitingly tense – … Read More

VOD film review: Spaceship

Emo teens speculate that their missing friend has been abducted in this stylish, colourful but frustrating feature debut.Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (20th May 2017)

MUBI heads to Cannes this month, with a fortnight-long takeover celebrating the creme de la Croisette. Centred around its exclusively-acquired Un Certain Regard winner The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (read our interview with star Jarkko Lahti here), every day brings another old favourite from festival years past.

Here’s what’s new, coming soon and leaving soon on the subscription streaming service. This is your weekly MUBI Digest:

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Netflix UK TV review: Master of None Season 2 (spoilers)

Warning: This contains spoilers. Not seen Season 2 of Master of None? Read our spoiler-free review of the opening episodes.

It hurts watching someone get their heart broken. At the end of Season 1 of Master of None, Dev (Aziz … Read More