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The Independent UK

A loving homage to pop culture’s also-rans: best podcasts of the week

Maisie Adam and Scott Bryan talk comically and sensitively to people who found sudden tabloid and early internet fame in the 00s. Plus, Norse myths and history with Iain Glen from Game of Thrones

The Guardian - UK

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials review – think Downton Abbey is real? This terrible adaptation is for you

Martin Freeman does his best to lift this three-parter, but it feels like Enid Blyton – made for an international market that thinks Paddington Bear is holding the queen’s hand in heaven

The Guardian - UK

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Actor Richard Armitage ‘choked up’ over VE Day concert reading

Famous faces performed a varied programme in Horse Guards Parade on Thursday evening.

Evening Standard

The Last Front review – old fashioned first world war drama fights familiar battle

Iain Glen is a sturdy presence leading a Belgian village’s resistance to the German advance, but there are limp scenes and soggy cliches aplenty

The Guardian - UK

Amazon creative industry investment supports 670 Scottish jobs

New apprenticeship and traineeship schemes announced across Scotland

Insider UK

Titans Actor Jay Lycurgo Explains Why He’s ‘Content’ With Big Change From Tim Drake’s Batman Comic Stories, The ‘Different Adaptations’ Of Robin

Jay Lycurgo discussed the big way Tim Drake’s Robin story differed from the Batman comics, as well as Titans’ exploration of multiple Robins.

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The Rig season two: Martin Compston's smash hit Prime Video Scots series set to return

Series Two of the Amazon hit, filmed and set in Scotland, will continue exploring global themes about the past, present, and future of the planet and once again will be filmed in Scotland.

Daily Record

The Rig season two confirmed as Martin Compston to return in Amazon Prime show

Martin Compston is set to return to Amazon Prime's The Rig after a second series was confirmed by the streaming service. Filming will take place in Edinburgh later this year.

Glasgow Live

Martin Compston's The Rig confirmed for second season as Amazon Prime show to return

Prime Video is set to return to Scotland for a second instalment of supernatural series The Rig, starring Scottish actor Martin Compston - who will return to the show this year.

Edinburgh Live

The Rig: Ex-oil worker reveals backstabbing, isolation and brutality of living offshore

Although he has never had to deal with any supernatural horrors at sea, former oil worker Andrew Morrissey says that life offshore can be even more monstrous in reality

Daily Mirror

The Rig: Cast, plot and how to watch the Martin Compston drama

This new six-part drama is full of Line of Duty stars

Wales Online

The Rig review – prepare to drill down into Martin Compston’s spooky North Sea drama

Compston, Iain Glen and a deeply unsettling Mark Bonnar star in this creepy thriller set on an oil platform that is attacked by supernatural forces. You’ll have a gas

The Guardian - UK

The Rig on Prime Video review: this fantastic concept falls short of being truly terrifying

Strange things start happening to a crew abandoned on an oil rig in the North Sea in this thriller

Evening Standard

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Daily Mirror

12 must-watch TV shows in 2023 from old faves to Martin Compston battling an oil rig

We reveal what you should be watching on the box in 2023 from returning favourites like Big Brother and Gladiators to Catherine Tate as an Australian princess

The National (Scotland)

Hypothermia and getting set on fire: Scots stars on making The Rig

YOU may expect a modern TV set to be a much safer destination than an oil rig but it’s not without its dangers, the stars of Scotland’s next…

The National (Scotland)

'We've heard it before': Martin Compston reacts to Gordon Brown vow to reform UK

MARTIN Compston has suggested that Gordon Brown’s constitutional reforms won’t win over any undecided Yes supporters.

Daily Record

Martin Compston says toddler son said first swear word after mimicking his rude rant

The Greenock born actor, who is best known for his role as Steve Arnott in hit BBC drama Line of Duty, was left stunned to hear his toddler son repeat back the f-word after Martin said it in earshot.

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Daily Record

Martin Compston announces date for new show The Rig and fans are buzzing

The Line of Duty star will appear in the new Prime drama, which will be on our screens in January.

Glasgow Live

Amazon Prime's The Rig: Martin Compston to feature in mini-series filmed in Scotland

Martin Compston is set to feature in another hit TV series and this time it's Amazon Prime's The Rig - and it could be coming to our screens sooner than we think.

Inverse

You need to watch the most thought-provoking sci-fi thriller on Netflix ASAP

This 2021 space thriller paints a dismal view of the future but with a bright ray of hope. 'The Colony,' starring 'Game of Thrones' actor Iain Glen, is now streaming on Netflix.

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