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‘I wrote my latest album while pretending to be the Prime Minister’s kidnapped husband’
Metro
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August 21, 2025
Ashley Thomas endures a turbulent journey in Netflix’s thriller series Hostage (Picture: Ollie Upton/Netflix) ‘So you were getting kidnapped and writing music at the same time?’ I ask. ‘Yeah, but it was good. This is what I worked for,’...
Netflix Just Quietly Released The Best Political Thriller Series Of The Year
Inverse
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August 21, 2025
When you hear “Netflix conspiracy thriller,” it’s easy to imagine the archetype: a no-holds-barred action thriller focused on some badass guy with a complicated past, taking on the powers that be despite not knowing who to trust. It’s the plot of...
‘Hostage’: Inside the filming locations behind the Netflix abduction thriller
Time Out
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Like a nerve-shredding mix of 24, London Has Fallen and your favourite soap, Hostage is a new Netflix political thriller that asks: what would happen if the British prime minister’s husband was captured by? And what would happen if the French...
Netflix fans ‘already hooked’ on new Suranne Jones thriller as all episodes drop
Metro
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August 21, 2025
Suranne Jones stars in Hostage on Netflix (Picture: Netflix/AP) Suranne Jones has stepped into Keir Starmer’s shoes as the British Prime Minister in Netflix’s new thriller Hostage. The new five-part drama – which dropped on Netflix today ahead of...
Where was Netflix's Hostage filmed?
Manchester Evening News
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August 21, 2025
08:01, 21 Aug 2025 Hostage is Netflix’s heart-stopping new thriller series starring Suranne Jones, Julie Delpy, Lucian Msamati, Ashley Thomas, and Corey Mylchreest. The five-part Netflix series follows fictional British Prime Minister Abigail...
Hostage review – five hours of fast, furious fun, featuring Suranne Jones as prime minister
The Guardian
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August 21, 2025
You know how it is. One moment you’re on a romantic walk in the woods with your saintly, supportive husband as he convinces you to stand for election as prime minister, the next you are that prime minister (with the shorter but still flattering...
Hostage episode 2 recap: tense negotiations and a double agent's identity is revealed (Spoilers)
What to Watch
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August 21, 2025
Hostage, a brand-new political thriller on Netflix, sees Abigail Dalton (Suranne Jones) swept into a plot of kidnapping and blackmail that threatens her role as Prime Minister as she meets with the French President, Toussaint. Hostage recaps...
I watched the new Netflix political thriller Hostage and it’s hands down the best original TV show of 2025
TechRadar
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August 21, 2025
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you're buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Hostage is now streaming on Netflix, and if you don't binge watch its pithy five...
CDC Raises Polio Alert To Level 2 For Dozens Of Countries
Travel Noire
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August 19, 2025
In early August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its polio warning to an increased level that travelers should be mindful of. The CDC changed its polio warning to “Level 2,” which urges travelers to “practice enhanced...
Hostage review – Chic Suranne Jones thriller is let down by a wonky storyline
The Independent
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August 20, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Netflix's Hostage feels like The Diplomat lite
Paste
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With echoes of Emmy nominees like The Diplomat and Bodyguard, the latest Netflix U.K. import about the intersection of political crises and personal dilemmas sounds promising enough on paper, with the makings of a miniseries that could be gripping...
Suranne Jones: ‘My son cringed at one part of my new Netflix thriller’
Metro
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August 20, 2025
Suranne Jones stars in the new Netflix drama Hostage (Picture: Des Willie/Netflix) Let’s set the scene: it’s a sunny day on Downing Street and the press corps is waiting, cameras poised, for the Prime Minister, when out from Number 10 steps...
James Webb Telescope Fuels European Innovation in AI and Space Tech
WebProNews
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August 14, 2025
In the vast expanse of space exploration, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) stands as a beacon of human ingenuity, with significant European fingerprints all over its design and operations. Launched in 2021 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from...
Europe launches Sentinel-5A to improve global air quality monitoring
Open Access Government
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August 14, 2025
This latest addition to the Copernicus Earth observation program lifted off aboard an Ariane 62 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 02:37 am CEST Wednesday, 13 August. The satellite confirmed successful deployment by...
MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5A Launch Ushers in New Era for Weather and Climate Monitoring
Space Newscast
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August 13, 2025
KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA: In a significant event for European space science, the first MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG-A1) satellite—equipped with the advanced Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument—was successfully launched into orbit today atop an...
Ashley Thomas AKA Bashy reveals biggest hope for Netflix drama Hostage and how acting came before rapping
Radio Times
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This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. In Netflix's new thriller Hostage, Ashley Thomas plays Dr Alex Anderson, the husband of Prime Minister Abigail Dalton and a medic with Médecins sans Frontières who is taken hostage while working...
Cases of killer virus that makes the body ‘fold in on itself’ soaring in UK – after virus sparks pandemic fears in China
The Scottish Sun
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August 13, 2025
CASES of a killer virus that can make the body “fold in on itself” have increased in the UK, health chiefs have warned. There were 73 cases of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease that causes crippling joint pain, between January and June 2025 in...
Satellite project could save lives, give extreme weather warnings
The Malaysian Star
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August 17, 2025
LONDON: A series of satellites are set to be launched into space over the next 15 years to help “save lives” and give early warning of increasingly extreme weather, British experts have said. The Metop Second Generation project aims to make...
U.S. issues travel warning for 5 countries: ‘Practice enhanced precautions’
Syracuse.com - New York
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August 14, 2025
The United States has issued a travel warning for Americans traveling to five countries. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update to its global travel alert that polio is circulating in Finland, Germany, Spain, the...
Warning as deadly ‘suitcase viruses’ that destroy organs and trigger brain swelling spread across the UK and Europe
The Sun
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August 15, 2025
DEADLY viruses could be making their way to the UK on planes and in holidaymakers' suitcases, experts warn. They say international travel is fuelling a "concerning" rise in both chikungunya and oropouche, and the worst could be yet to come. 18...