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October's outside the box. Just me, Hannah Dunleamy and Jen offered this week. Hello, Jen.

Hi, I feel like I should say something ridiculous because Mickey isn't here, but I'm not going

to say hi. Okay, so this time of year, Jen, traditionally autumn. TV slots are absolutely

jam-packed. Autumn's always the time where there's more stuff on than you can manage to watch.

Not so this year, though, at the minute, only the BBC have sort of shown their hand of what

their big dramas are. Maybe it's something to do with the strike, but I think that a lot of streaming

services or channels haven't actually had a lot of really big drama on. Now TV is still sitting on

all of the things that we're waiting for. Netflix is sitting on. I wonder if it's because of the

strike, maybe, that they're spreading out, what the available stuff they've got. But for example,

if you're waiting for the Lazarus project, which is Sky, that's now going to be November.

If you're waiting for Julia, which we were told autumn, still no date on that. If you're waiting for

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