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SATURDAY APRIL 15

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Don’t miss the bus

Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.35pm

Streaming: TVNZ+

Russell T Davies is on board as executive producer of this three-part drama and has championed it as “a beautiful drama, the likes of which we don’t get enough of”. Harry Lawtey () plays Ben, a young Northerner in London who meets Jess (Sophia Brown, ) in a romcom coincidence. Love blooms, but then tragedy strikes. Meanwhile, Emma (Jessica Barden, ) is processing her own trauma. Where will it all take them? Critics have differed on the extent to which Davies, who discovered hailed it as a “sentimental charmer” and the called it a “Halifax Building Society advert with sad bits”.

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