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SATURDAY OCTOBER 21

JUICE

Mad, colourful comedy

Streaming: TVNZ+ (full season)

The pipeline from the Edinburgh Fringe to semiautobiographical TV sitcom is still pumping. Mawaan Rizwan (Taskmaster, stars as Jamma, who is young, gay and very much wants to be the centre of attention. It’s based on Jamma’s mother Farida, played by his real mum Shahnaz Rizwan, who found herself with a Bollywood career after featuring in her son’s YouTube videos inHis patient boyfriend is played by Russell Tovey (Years The reviewer found it “patchy” but also “raucous and purely entertaining”.

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