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<\/p>\nIf you’re in need of a “tense” European thriller set in multiple locations for your next TV binge, look no further than Hidden Assets, which has just become available to watch in its entirety on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n
This Irish-Belgian-Canadian co-production is comprised of three seasons, originally aired on Irish channel RT\u00c9 One between 2021 and 2025. The three six-episode instalments follow the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) joining forces with Belgian and Spanish counter-terrorism units.<\/p>\n
The stacked cast is led by Angeline Ball as DS Emer Berry for season 1, with Nora-Jane Noone taking over for season 2 and 3 in the role of DS Claire Wallace.<\/p>\n
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Related: Best streaming services UK 2026 \u2013 including Disney Plus, Netflix, iPlayer and Apple TV+<\/a><\/p>\n The series, created by Peter McKenna and branded a “tense, against-the-clock” thriller in the official BBC synopsis, also stars Aaron Monaghan, Cathy Belton, Simone Kirby, Wouter Hendrickx, and Kwaku Fortune.<\/p>\n While the show seemed to have flown under the radar with critics, as only a handful of reviews are listed on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> for season 1, it has encounter the public’s favour, with many viewers praising it as a “solid police drama” on IMDb<\/a>. <\/p>\n “A good piece of entertainment that wasn’t stretched out too far like so many these days,” one fan noted, while someone else wrote: “A very pleasant surprise. High class drama, very convincing story line and well-acted throughout.”<\/p>\n “Fantastic!! Excellent police-style drama with great acting and superbly written,” another person wrote.<\/p>\n “Decidedly one of the best I have seen in MANY years and I hope there is a second season,” someone else enthused after watching season 1. <\/p>\n BBC<\/p>\n Related: “Gripping” mystery thriller that ‘keeps you guessing’ lands new UK streaming home<\/a><\/p>\n Elsewhere on iPlayer, sci-fi fans have just been treated to<\/a> two recently unearthed missing Doctor Who episodes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, the BBC added ‘The Nightmare Begins’ and ‘Devil’s Planet’ from the serial The Daleks’ Master Plan to its catalogue. <\/p>\n The two episodes originally aired as part of the show’s third season in 1965 and were discovered thanks to the Film Is Fabulous! charity, which found them in a private collection.<\/p>\n Hidden Assets is streaming on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n The new edition of Living Legends, a 100-page all-colour celebration of Sir David Attenborough, is here! Buy Sir David Attenborough in newsagents or online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times<\/a> and Digital Spy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Her beats are horror films and period dramas, especially if fronted by queer women. She can argue why Scream is the best slasher in four languages (and a half).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re in need of a “tense” European thriller set in multiple locations for your next TV binge,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147950,379,181278,381,96,1156,181277,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-collection-latest-news","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-e213b9e3-5ced-43eb-971a-22ba98f09447","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-locale-gb","14":"tag-shorttitle-bbc-drops-new-episodes-of-against-the-clock-thriller","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"angeline](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/26dd8a63-94a8-40e4-a933-96719c8e8f84.jpg\" "\\"Angeline")
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