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Sunday March 3

Drama: THE FEAR INDEX

You may have heard of the global financial crisis of 2008, but how aboutIt inspired blockbuster author Robert Harris’s 2011 novel which has been adapted for this four-part thriller starring Josh Hartnett. He is computer scientist Alexander Hoffman, whose AI-driven system can predict, well, everything, which means there’s money to be made. It’s a Pandora’s box, of course, and weird events and security breaches cause Hoffman to spiral.

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