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begins with family videos of a Christmas party at Daddy Larry Lamb‘s (Gavin and Stacey) home, sorry, he’s Dennis. Soon after, Sian’s (Gaynor Faye) on a date with some bloke who copmplaints that “women are …
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Category: Channel 5
Heat (2023) – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Danny Dyer
Heat doesn’t have any signs of Al Pacino or Robert De Niro, but instead, Danny Dyer stars as Danny Dyer, taking a holiday in the outback at a friend’s very posh house with his family. …
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Blindspot – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Beth Alsbury, Ross Kemp
Blindspot is a new four-parter drama from Channel 5, most recently giving four hours of airtime to Jo Joyner, with Rachel Shenton trying to act like Rebecca De Mornay from The Hand That Rocks The …
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Puzzling – The DVDfever Preview – Channel 5 gameshow – Lucy Worsley
Puzzling is a new Lucy Worsley gameshow with a funky-coloured backdrop, so Channel 5 are clearly trying to give Only Connect a run for their money, also with having a nerdy female presenter (and nerdy …
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For Her Sins – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jo Joyner, Rachel Shenton
For Her Sins sees young mum Laura (Jo Joyner – Riptide) chancing across Emily (Rachel Shenton – All Creatures Great And Small) in the local park, as daughter Eliza has gone missing, and this comes …
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Challenge Anneka – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 – Anneka Rice
Challenge Anneka is back, and at first, I thought: it has the same music, initially, but then tries to change it, and surely they should’ve stuck to the original? Or was it something amiss with …
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Harry Wild Investigates -The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 – Jane Seymour
Harry Wild Investigates begins with a murder… like most detective drama episodes, this one seeing a man practicing what could be some sort of satanic ritual on a body? But before we get to that, …
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Desperate Measures – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Amanda Abbington
Desperate Measures sees bank clerk Rowan (Amanda Abbingdon) taking… yes, desperate measures, when push comes to shove in her circumstances. There’s been a robbery at her bank, and she’s being questioned. The cops think it …
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The Catch – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jason Watkins
The Catch begins with Ed (Jason Watkins – The Man Who Killed Don Quixote) steering his fishing boat on the ocean wave, looking anxious, making his way to a dinghy which is overturned. But where …
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The Canterville Ghost – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Anthony Head
The Canterville Ghost is based on an Oscar Wilde story, which was made into a 95-minute comedy in 1944, but here, it’s four hours including adverts. Did they get James Cameron to write it, or …
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