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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV Week: One date with this toxic romance is enough

UK writer Kathryn Flett is disappointed with Alice & Jack, which stars Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson as a pair of star-crossed lovers, but she's hooked on reality show Bring The Drama.

Here, while a fine cast works very hard (hence my two stars), even great actors can’t turn a fundamentally unpleasant, toxic relationship between two people whose motivations we can’t quite grasp (there’s a scene where Alice is with Jack’s baby that I found borderline disturbing) into the edgy-cool drama it so very desperately wants to be. Although I’m concerned that an intriguing new competition to find undiscovered acting talent might strip away some industry ‘mystery’ (according to Natalie ‘Sonia Fowler’ Cassidy, a typical EastEnders scene is shot in only 40 minutes), after just one episode of Bring The Drama I’m already playing star-spotting casting director, so I’m clearly hooked. In Sand Job, the penultimate Grand Tour (Amazon Prime Video), the poster boys for midlife lived large and sniggery – May, Clarkson and Hammond – follow the Paris-Dakar rally in a Jaguar, an Aston Martin and a Maserati.

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