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The first three seasons of Mr Robot will leave Lightbox the same month the fourth and final season premieres. It’s one of 17 series and programmes that will exit the platform in October. Other high-profile departures will include Chance, Black Sails, Three Girls and Law & Order UK. Here’s the full list:

In the Dark | Lightbox, from Monday ☆☆☆☆ “The BBC’s new crime drama doesn’t break the mould with its themes of corruption, lies and unwanted pregnancy – but its dark strands still draw you in … In the Dark is not Happy Valley, shifted south a little, down the Pennines. This is something louder, less involving, […]

Three Girls | Lightbox, from Wednesday ☆☆☆☆ “Three Girls powerfully encompasses the real-life scandal surrounding the sexual abuse of teenage girls in Rochdale – and the authorities’ initial failure to protect them.  In 2011, an investigation by Andrew Norfolk for The Times exposed the sexual grooming, mostly of white girls aged around 12 or 13, by […]

Lightbox has picked up for streaming next month an acclaimed BBC series that for too long has been absent from our screens. Three Girls, which The Guardian hailed as “a powerful and important three-part drama, based on the Rochdale child sexual abuse scandal,” screened 18 months ago in the UK — a gap that’s ridiculously long […]