This Town comes from the pen of Steven Knight, who brought us Peaky Blinders – a series I’ve still to see. Opening on Lozells Road, Birmingham in 1981, before it moves on to Falls Road, …
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Newark Newark – The DVDfever Review – BBC comedy – Morgana Robinson
Newark Newark – so good they named it… as it’s mostly set around the life of single mother Maxine (Morgana Robinson – Everyone Else Burns), trying to bring up teenage son Leslie (Jai Hollis) the …
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The Way – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Michael Sheen
The Way sets the scene for a potentially powerful drama, set against the backdrop of a Welsh steelworker village where strikes are about to blight the town, but then they’re necessary in a Tory era. …
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Gladiators (2024) – The DVDfever Review – BBC gameshow – Bradley Walsh
Gladiators (2024): Can you feel the power? Not really. 2024 seems to be the year for remakes, as ITV have both Jeopardy! and Wheel Of Fortune, and now the BBC have brought back an old …
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Men Up – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Iwan Rheon, Joanna Page
Men Up is a new BBC TV movie based on a true story, about a group of men in Wales who have trouble keeping the British end up. We open with Meurig Jenkins (Iwan Rheon …
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Murder is Easy – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – David Jonsson, Morfydd Clark
Murder is Easy is based on an Agatha Christie story first published in 1939, although this adaptation is set in 1954, and with apparently cultural anthropologist Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson – Industry) coming from Nigeria …
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The Church on Ruby Road – Doctor Who Christmas Special 2023 – The DVDfever Review – Ncuti Gatwa
The Church on Ruby Road is the 2023 Christmas episode of Doctor Who. Hanging around for a while as The Doctor is Ncuti Gatwa, who I’ve only seen in the mediocre Barbie, and as a …
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The Giggle – Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Part 3 – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant
The Giggle concludes the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary trilogy of episodes, after the godawful The Star Beast, and the baddie-less Wild Blue Yonder, which couldn’t have shouted “filler” any louder than it did. This time …
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The Star Beast – Doctor Who 60th Anniversary – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant, Catherine Tate
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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