BBC new new six-part thriller series featuring Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole has proven a big hit with viewers who have likened it to another highly-regarded show

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Let the train take the strain”, as the old advertising slogan urged us. The train in this six-part drama has to soak up a whole world of strain, as it’s taken over by cyber-hijackers who demand a huge ransom before they’ll consider relinquishing their technological grip.

BBC’s new thriller Nightsleeper landed on the small screens on Sunday, September 15. The show follows the events of a single, extremely tense on a sleeper train travelling between Glasgow and London which was hijacked by hackers (or "hack-jacked") in a ...

BBC's Nightsleeper is set to hit screens imminently and boasts an all-star cast on board the sleeper train as it travels from Glasgow to London

Viewers are now eating their words after complaining about a BBC thriller - only to end up loving it. While this newer offering from the BBC was initially branded 'unmissable' by some critics, viewers were pretty quick to tear it down. The show in question stars Joe Cole, of Peaky Blinders and Gangs of London fame.

Taking to social media, viewers asked why the power wasn't turned off after the train was hijacked. One person wrote: "Explain to me again why they can't just unplug it?!" while another asked: "Erm, why haven't they simply turned off the power supply to the overhead cables?