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Detective Cain

All 4 from Friday, July 10 When the series Cain started in France back in 2012, the cast hoped it would do well, but had no idea it would become so popular.

Some might call Cain a Gallic Ironside in the fact he’s a wheelchair-bound crime buster, but there’s a lot more to the show than that.

We now get a chance to see series two, and our hero is trapped not only by twisted murderers, but also by his colleague Lucie and his turbulent feelings towards her. They team up when a mother and her teenage daughter are kidnapped by a masked stranger. The husband and father of the victims is the prime suspect, but is there more to the case than meets the eye?

SERIES Hanna

Eight episodes, exclusivel­y on Amazon Prime Video

Last year, screenwrit­er David Farr successful­ly rebooted the 2011 action-thriller Hanna directed by Joe Wright as an eight-part Amazon Prime original series about a 15-yearold girl who is trained by her father in Poland to evade the clutches of the ruthless CIA agent on their trail.

The first series concluded with Hanna and her father Erik storming a covert US government facility, which could put them in the cross hairs of wily CIA operative Marissa Weigler.

In these eight instalment­s, Hanna and new friend Clara go on the run from assassin programme director John Carmichael and his second-incommand, Leo Garner. As Hanna learns about other young woman with the same elite training and survival skills, she must place her trust in her CIA nemesis to be truly free from the sinister agency that created her.

ANIMATION Kingdom

Amazon Prime and other streaming services

Based on the popular Japanese manga series created by Yasuhira Hara, Kingdom is a sweeping action adventure about a boy who dreams of becoming the most powerful and influentia­l general of the Qin state.

Orphan Xin and his best friend Piao are both slaves, hoping to rise above their lowly status to

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