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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The Sixth Commandment – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Timothy Spall
The Sixth Commandment opens with the text… “This is a true story. What follows is based on extensive research, interviews and published accounts, with some scenes created for dramatic purposes” I’d never heard of this …
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Queen Of Oz – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Catherine Tate
Queen Of Oz is a new ‘fish out of water’ comedy which sees Catherine Tate (Hard Cell) as the Prince Harry-type character of the piece, Princess Georgiana. Given that the offscreen King decides to abdicate …
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Best Interests – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Michael Sheen, Sharon Horgan
Best Interests centres around the daughter of Andrew (Michael Sheen – Vardy V Rooney: A Courtroom Drama) and Nicci (Sharon Horgan – Together), who’s very ill, given that the doctors have assessed her as having …
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