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Locked Up

Channel4.com, series 1&2 The first episode of the second series was broadcast on Channel 4 earlier this month, and now series 1 and 2 are both available. Broadcast in Spanish with English subtitles, this is Spain’s biggest break-out drama ever. Set among the inmates of a prison, Locked Up tells the story of Macarena, a middle-class blonde who gets incarcerated for fraud, despite protesting her innocence, and has to learn, fast, how to navigate the explosive scene behind bars. There is plenty of drugs, sex, violence, official corruption and bad things happening in the laundry room and showers, all delivered in a visual style that is gritty and carefully bleached of colour, except for the canary-yellow prison uniforms. The drama centres around Macarena’s adaptation — frankly, it’s that or die — to life inside, and the relationships she forges with those around her. Interspersed with the daily hardships and horrors are flashbacks to her life, including the boyfriend who may have set her up. The Clinic Boxset RTE Player, series 1-7 A chance to go back to the start and watch, all over again, one of RTE’s most popular dramas. Begun in 2003, the series returned six times, finally finishing up in 2009. Set in a Dublin 4 medical clinic — a rambling old building bought by a young couple, both doctors, who live above the practice, while the widow of the doctor they bought it from, lives in the basement. The series follows the various professional and private ups and downs of the medical team, which includes a counsellor, plastic surgeon, physical therapist and nurses, as well as the non-medics, including a financial controller and office workers, and mirrored some of the issues preoccupying the country during the years it was broadcast. Over the six-year run, many of the country’s best and best-loved actors — some of whom have gone on to mega success — appeared, including Amy Huberman (left), Lorraine Pilkington, Geraldine Plunkett, Aidan Turner, Victoria Smurfit, Dawn Bradfield and Chris O’Dowd.