Backstage: You, Gemma Arterton, Women Talking, and the Happy Valley finale

Welcome to Backstage, the film and TV review podcast from Sky News.

Welcome to Backstage, the film and TV review podcast from Sky News.

Claire Gregory is joined this week by Sky’s arts and entertainment correspondent Katie Spencer, and TV and film reviewer Stevie Wong.

The team give their thoughts on Happy Valley’s explosive finale and the showdown between Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce. Warning, there are spoilers, so if you’re still trying to avoid those, skip from 2:15 to 7:58.

And if you want to listen to Claire’s starring appearance this week’s on the Sky News Daily podcast, click here.

Meanwhile, Joe Goldberg is back and up to no good. Penn Badgley joins the podcast to talk all things You series four.

Jessie Buckley and Claire Foy speak to the show about their Oscar-nominated film Women Talking, which is out this week in cinemas.

Just a warning that the team will be discussing the movie’s content of rape, sexual assault, and drug abuse. If you’d rather not listen to that, skip from 19:44 to 28:41.

More on Backstage Podcast

New Sky Max comedy Funny Woman follows Gemma Arterton as a 1960s beauty queen trying to make it as a sitcom star in London. She tells the podcast why she thinks there’s still some way to go for funny women.

Plus, Stevie has the best/worst rom-coms for your Valentine’s Day needs.

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Hosts: Claire Gregory, Stevie Wong and Katie Spencer
Junior producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth