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One of the great mysteries of TV in the last few years is the incomprehensible lack of noise around AMC's
The Terror. Produced by Ridley Scott, it landed in the US in 2018, where its viewing figures dwindled almost as quickly as the crew of the real-life expedition into the Arctic wastes on which it was based, and it never made it over to a UK channel.
Until now! BBC2 has sent the icebreakers in to free it and it's showing on Wednesday nights for the next couple of months. It makes perfect sense: it's a seafaring period novel adaptation (based on 2007's