TV REVIEW: We examine if The Midwich Cuckoos flies high

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I am a big fan of The Village of the Damned movies - both the 1960 original and John Carpenter’s more over-the-top 1995 remake.

Creepy kids have become a horror staple but when you put a group of them together it creates maximum terror.This seven-episode Sky Original take on John Wyndham’s novel - given its original title - follows the same general storyline; after residents of a small fictional English village are rendered unconscious for 12 hours, numerous women awaken to find they are suddenly pregnant.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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The cast play things straight and fairly low key; Aisling Loftus ( Zoë ) and Ukweli Roach’s ( Sam ) are the standouts as a young couple who have just moved to the village to start a family.