CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend’s TV: Every scene verges on panic in this tense vision of a gambler’s hell

The Cage (BBC1)

Rating: Five stars out of five

Better than sex. That’s what an old sub-editor used to claim, as he eyed the one-armed bandit in the corner of the pub, on our break during the evening shift.

I could never fathom the attraction of that demented robotic contraption. If you have to throw your money away, at least the jukebox gives you a song.

But this white-haired journo would down his pint and make tense small talk for a few minutes every night before heading across to do battle with the bars, bells, oranges and cherries.

I hadn’t thought of him in years, until

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