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The Star Beast sees Russell T Davies return to writing Doctor Who, as if he didn’t destroy it enough last time, trying to throw in diversity amongst the cast, over writing a coherent script. Last …
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Boat Story – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Paterson Joseph, Daisy Haggard
Boat Story is story about a boat… Ooh, you weren’t expect that, were you? This new drama has a very weird prologue with a voiceover trying to be funny, announcing it as starting “under a …
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Time Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey
Time Series 2 brings the prison drama back to our screens after a blistering first three-parter with Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. Before we know what’s happened, one minute, we see single mother Orla (Jodie …
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The Reckoning – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Steve Coogan
The Reckoning is the four-part drama which starts Steve Coogan (This Time With Alan Partridge) as the late, disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, given everything we now know he got up to during his life and …
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Boiling Point (2023) – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Stephen Graham
Boiling Point (2023) follows on from the 2021 movie, which hasn’t yet aired on regular telly – the fact of which does seem rather an odd mis-step, but if you have Netflix, you can see …
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Alan Carr’s Picture Slam – The DVDfever Review – BBC gameshow – Alan Carr
Alan Carr’s Picture Slam is, as you might guess, is presented by comedian Alan Carr, and is 45 minutes of ‘guess the picture’, basically, e.g. guess the celeb, which TV show is this, what snack …
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The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Rebekah Staton
The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies is yet another TV drama trying to make it seem like a movie, with a 2.39:1 widescreen ratio for the image (same as The Woman …
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Henpocalypse – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Elizabeth Berrington
Henpocalypse Henpocalypse sees a hen do going from bad to worse, as Bernadette (Elizabeth Berrington – The Responder)’s daughter, Zara (Lucie Shorthouse – We Are Lady Parts) is getting married, but first needs to jump …
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Wolf – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Ukweli Roach
Wolf begins with a person in a complete Hazmat suit dragging a body across field, then stabbing it, as if to make clear that they’re not in the right mind. Then cut to cop Jack …
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The Power of Parker – The DVDfever Review – BBC comedy – Conleth Hill, Sian Gibson
The Power of Parker is set in Stockport, 1990, beginning with one of titular character’s terrible-looking TVs adverts for his electrical store, to mimic those of the era. As things begin, thankfully, it’s only a …
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