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X-RATED EROTIC SHOWS ARE COMING BACK
★ SEX on the small screen is back... with a bang! This week saw erotic thriller Obsession hit Netflix, filled with X-rated scenes and kinky bondage.
★ It’s just one of many new steamy shows and movies – often remade from racy 90s films – as NADINE LINGE reveals... OBSESSION Netflix, available now
A remake of the erotic novel Damage, which was turned into a 1992 film starring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche. It features Richard Armitage as a successful surgeon who starts a passionate affair with his son’s girlfriend, played by Happy Valley’s Charlie Murphy.
Explicit scenes that include blindfolding and tying up have seen it rated 18, while Spooks star Armitage also appears totally nude.
In fact he and Charlie spent a whopping 10 days naked or nearnaked filming raunchy scenes in the flat where most of the affair takes place.
SEX/LIFE Netflix, available now
Bored housewife Billie Connelly (Sarah Shahi) revisits her sexfilled past with love of her life Brad Simon (Adam Demos) in season one. The second series dropped last month. Scenes of Aussie hunk Adam naked with a prosthetic penis and the two stars – who hooked up in real life – performing sex acts sent the show viral.
There was also a swingers’ party while the second series featured topless mud rubs, further sex scenes and a drug-fuelled encounter with a prostitute.
FATAL ATTRACTION Paramount+, from May 1
This 80s classic gave us the term “bunny boiler” as the affair between Michael Douglas’ married lawyer and Glenn Close’s publishing editor saw her pop the family’s rabbit in a pot.
Sex scenes include the pair getting down to business on various kitchen surfaces before moving into the bedroom
The new version stars Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan in the Douglas and Close roles and it’s told more sympathetically to the woman’s point of view.
CRUEL INTENTIONS Amazon, currently filming
That sizzling smooch between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair was one of the steamiest moments of 90s cinema.
Now Amazon has given the green light to an eight-episode TV reboot of the 1999 original, which starts filming this month.
Sarah and Ryan Phillippe starred as a pair of wealthy and ruthless step-siblings who use sex and manipulation to achieve their aims.
9½WEEKS Amazon, filming starts in the summer
The streaming giant has commissioned a 10-part series based on the 1986 film that starred Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke in an S&M relationship.
Saucy scenes featured food and blindfolds, role play, an ice cube and an alley romp while the actress appeared semi-naked.
Basinger will be back playing a university professor but bosses are said to be looking for relatively unknown actors for the leads.
PRESUMED INNOCENT Apple TV+ currently filming
This 1990 thriller saw Harrison Ford as a lawyer charged with the murder of his colleague and mistress, played by Greta Scacchi, with the pair enjoying some sultry action in the office and bedroom.
It is now being remade as a series with Jake Gyllenhaal taking on Ford’s role.