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Saturday April 6

Spy thriller: ALEX RIDER

Despite the list of Alex Rider novels numbering 14, season three is to be thein which Alex takes on his greatest enemy, the criminal network of the title. Embedded in the story are answers to what happened to Alex’s father when Alex goes undercover and discovers a Scorpia plan to extort the British government with a super-weapon. Sofia Helin plays Julia Rothman, the head of Scorpia, and Stephen Dillane and Vicky McClure return as Alan Blunt and Mrs Jones from Special Operations.

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