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Ten Pound Poms got me early on, when the trailer made me giggle with everyone arriving in Australia in 1956, and Faye Marsay’s character observing, “You don’t see that in Stockport”, although it goes one …
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Category: BBC
Love Is A Stranger – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Love Is A Stranger is the fourth episode of Inside No.9 Series 8. Vicky (Claire Rushbrook) lives at No.9, and trying online speed dating – which I didn’t know was a thing – first talking …
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Black Ops – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Gbemisola Ikumelo, Hammed Animashaun
Black Ops centres around two PCSOs, aka Police Community Support Officers, who can’t arrest a scrote who’s just attacked a security guard, thus pointing themselves out to be a complete waste of space. Since it …
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Paraskevidekatriaphobia – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the third episode of Inside No.9 Series 8. The word means to have a fear of Friday 13th. For me, that date is the only time things DO go right for me! Dom …
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Mother’s Ruin – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Mother’s Ruin is the second episode of Inside No.9 Series 8, since The Bones of St Nicholas was the first episode, as well as the Christmas edition. Events initially look like two burglars are breaking …
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Colin From Accounts – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Harriet Dyer, Patrick Brammall
Colin From Accounts is an Australian comedy coming to BBC2, where neither of the principal leads – creators/writers Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer – are called Colin? Well, there’s a bit of setup – also …
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Blue Lights – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Sian Brooke
Blue Lights centres around newbie cop PC Grace Ellis (Sian Brooke – No Return, Stephen), who’s just retrained after a long career in social service. Quite why she would is anyone’s guess, given that working …
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Great Expectations – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Olivia Colman
Great Expectations is something I didn’t particularly have for yet another adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel. I’ve never read it, but for whatever reason, previews of this were available for big websites, but not …
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Better – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Leila Farzad
Better is a new BBC1 drama with a ridiculously non-descript title. Tell someone about it, and they’ll ask the title, you say “Better”, they’ll reply, “Pardon?” and then you have to describe it. God knows …
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The Gold – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Hugh Bonneville
The Gold is another of those dramas which was “inspired by real events”, so will have to imagine conversations between certain characters because CCTV can’t be everywhere at once… 40 years ago, at least, whereas …
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