Set your PVR – Pandemic, Sky One HD, Tue-Wed, 9pm
Biohazard suits at the ready! If bird flu doesn’t come back and get you, there’s always the chance that another deadly virus spreads from person to person and, before you know it, an entire city has to be quarantined...
That’s the premise of this new two-part miniseries premiering on Sky One HD and screening on Tuesday and Wednesday night. An apparently fit 19-year-old suffers a fever, convulsions and then dies on board a flight to Los Angeles. At the insistence of epidemiologist Dr Kayla Martin (Tiffani Thiessen), all passengers are isolated, but the unknown virus continues to spread. After cases emerge in Australia and El Salvador, it’s soon clear that the carrier, patient zero, is still at large...
Although it’s been well covered by movies such as Outbreak and quite recently as part of 24’s season four, like a nasty infection, this kind of subject often comes back. The cast of TV stalwarts includes Third Rock from the Sun’s French Stewart, Eric Roberts (of the 90s Doctor Who TV one-off and many a B-movie), while Thiessen used to be in Saved by the Bell. Adding some cinematic glamour is former Oscar winner Faye Dunaway. Have the penicillin handy on Tuesday 2nd January at 9pm.
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