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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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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