The biggest surprise of Sky’s new action series, Atomic , is that it’s based on the rather serious-sounding non-fiction bestseller The Atomic Bazaar, by William Langewiesche. The book’s grim message is that the black market in smuggled uranium has gone – forgive the pun – nuclear. It is now easier than at any previous time in history for terrorists and renegade regimes to acquire the raw materials for weapons of mass destruction.

That’s no laughing matter, yet Atomic uses the concept of a world flooded with illicit uranium shipments as a jumping-off point for a geezer thriller in the tradition of Guy Ritchie at his worst. The intrusive soundtrack – which sounds like the playlist of someone with wildly random tastes in music (who would want to listen to Hot Chocolate and Radiohead

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