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COBRA: Rebellion hit the halfway point of the series last week with a violent demonstration outside the International Defense Expo in which Polly Wright, a leading member of Planet Resistance and a close friend of Ellie Sutherland, was severely injured and died soon after. Ellie and the leader of Planet
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As COBRA: Rebellion opens, both Ellie Sutherland and Henry Wicks have been released from hospital and are being questioned by the police about their involvement with the Godley Common disaster. Ellie tells the police that Nate told her about the device, part of Henry’s plans to escalate Planet Resistance’
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COBRA: Rebellion’s second episode lays bare the terrible tension between Robert Sutherland’s roles as Prime Minister and loving father and damages the fragile truce with his wife, Rachel. Their troublesome, beloved daughter Ellie is missing in the Godley Common disaster, where a massive sinkhole has destroyed buildings and
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It’s time to convene another COBRA, the show which can be depended on for Prime Minister Robert Sutherland (Robert Carlyle) looking horrified as both his country collapses around him and an unnecessarily complex plot unfolds. This third (and probably last) season seems to be a little more grounded in
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It's been two years since PBS last aired COBRA, a drama that has nothing to do with snakes, thank goodness. "COBRA" stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, where the U.K. government convenes in a crisis. (Yes, the term is used even if the meeting
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COBRA Season 3 already promised the "Rebellion" would be televised, as Season 3's subheading was given that name, with a warning that this time, the threats were coming from inside the house. But for PBS Passport members who support their local public television stations, the Rebellion
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Netflix has rounded out the casting for its upcoming drama Toxic Town, a a four-part limited series that aims to shine a spotlight on the Corby poisonings, an event that is considered one of the U.K's worst environmental disasters. Bridgeron star Claudia Jessie has joined the series&
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It's been a minute since the hijinks of Prime Minister Robert Sutherland (Robert Carlyle) and his hapless Tory cabinet have faced random world-ending crises from Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, aka a COBRA. The second season, subtitled "Cyberwar," aired on Sky TV at the end of
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Netflix has officially announced the start of production on Toxic Town, a four-part limited series that aims to shine a spotlight on the Corby poisonings, a scandalous series of toxic waste spillages in the East Midlands during the mid-1980s which led to a tragic spike in birth defects in the
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It's been 25 years since five unemployed steelworkers let their buddy convince them to strip off live on stage to make a quick buck. That doesn't sound like a promising premise, but in The Full Monty, it worked. The 1997 film was a British comedy about
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The Full Monty was never planned to be a massive hit in America. The story of six unemployed steel workers in 1990s era Sheffield who turn to getting their kits off to support their families was far too risque, far too class conscious, and far too British for Americans to
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After last week's penultimate episode of COBRA's second season had her quit while Robert was busy firing her, poor Anna has taken to her bed in a cocoon of cashmere and self-care. She's finding consolation in her comfort read, a biography of Dostoyevsky, who,