An Invitation to Murder: A Death in Cairo follows on from 2023’s An Invitation to Murder – which, itself, was also alternatively-titled as Invitation To A Murder – but it’s odd that they subtitle the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE IMPOSTER on CHANNEL 5! (aka THE IMPOSTOR)
The Imposter opens with Susan Kennedy staggering about on a beach, albeit in a dream, but she’s still uber hot! Giggity! However, upon waking up and reading a news article, “Manchester woman killed in car …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SPECIAL MEASURES (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Special Measures is what’s happened to the school features in this fourth and final drama of the Play For Today series. With everyone on stress farm, one teacher has quit on the day that they …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of KNOCK AT THE DOOR (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Knock At The Door is the third of four Play For Today episodes, and gives us Alan Davies (Jonathan Creek) as former comedian Lenny Bray, with some footage of Davies, himself, on stage when he …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of BIG WINNERS (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Big Winners is the second episode of the revived Play For Today, with Sue Johnston and Paul Copley as elderly couple Edith and Arthur Thistle, who’ve clearly been married for a long time and have …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of COOPER AND FRY on CHANNEL 5!
Cooper And Fry is another mismatched cops drama, where in this case, DC Diane Fry’s (Mandip Gill, who I first saw in Doctor Who when it was circling the drain, before the last two series …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NEVER TOO LATE (Play For Today) on CHANNEL 5!
Never Too Late sees Channel 5 bringing back Play For Today, the BBC1 strand which ran from 1970 to 1984, where you’d get a series of one-off dramas, some of which even went on to …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE FORSYTES on CHANNEL 5!
The Forsytes opens in London, 1877, when I was knee-height to a grasshopper… Oh, actually that was *19*77, but close enough. It’s the time before Kid’n’Play, when people held house parties with the guests being …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG on CHANNEL 5!
Murder Before Evensong brings the novels of Rev. Richard Coles to the small screen. I haven’t read a book since I was at school, but at that same time, I regularly watched Top of the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE RUMOUR on CHANNEL 5!
The Rumour… but how do rumours get started… They’re started by the jealous people and they get mad about somethin’ they had, and somebody else is holdin’… This is a strange one, as the problem …
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