Episode 65: 28 Weeks Later with Michael Avery

Send us Fan MailAnd he is back by popular demand. Off the success of his 28 Weeks Later chat Michael is back again to discuss the sequel 28 Weeks Later, it is bigger, it is bolder, it is more American, but is it in keeping with the original? Can Robert Carlisle, Idris Elba, Jeremy Renner, and Rose Byrne fill the boots of Cillian Murphy, Naomi Harris, Brendan Gleason and Christopher Ecclestone?28 Weeks after the original outbreak the US-led NATO force in the UK has deemed the country is now free of the Rage virus.  Led by Iris Elba, with Scarlet (Rose Byrne) as his chief medical officer, they look after 15,000 returning Brits, monitoring them closely at a facility on the Isle of Dogs.When Tammy and Andy arrive, the first children to return, Scarlet has her doubts. Tammy and Andy's father Don (Robert Carlisle) is the caretaker of the facility, with access all areas, and he has a secret. He left his wife, Alice, Tommy and Andy's mother to die in farmhouse full of infected.But when Alice turns up, bitten but not turned, infected by asymptomatic, a carrier of the rage virus, everything they have worked for is going to go up in flames.