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The only things left worth watching on the BBC are foreign buy-ins like The Last Wave

This BBC Four fantasy drama has pretty French girls, surfing, superpowers and hardly any political correctness

Marianne Lewen (Lola Dewaere) and Lena Lebon (Marie Dompnier) in BBC Four's The Last Wave. Image: BBC / Fremantle / Christophe Brachet
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