Mr Bates vs The Post Office tells of the situation regarding the Horizon Post Office scandal, based around the Horizon computer system which was introduced into post offices in 1999, and led to many subpostmasters …
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Nolly – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Helena Bonham Carter
Nolly is ITV’s 3-part drama based around TV icon Noele Gordon (played here by Helena Bonham-Carter – The Crown), who ruled the motel in ITV soap opera Crossroads, until the producers had a change of …
Continue readingVanishing Act – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Kate Atkinson
Vanishing Act continues to confirm that there are few things more scummy in life than fraudsters. In this case, it’s all about Australian Melissa Caddick (Kate Atkinson), who did a disappearing act after she was …
Continue readingDeal Or No Deal – The DVDfever Preview – ITV gameshow – Stephen Mulhern
Deal Or No Deal returns, this time to ITV, and in the hands of the very personable Stephen Mulhern. The gameshow was a huge hit when Noel Edmonds brought it to our screens, but everything …
Continue readingThree Little Birds – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Lenny Henry
Three Little Birds is Lenny Henry’s Windrush drama, which he has created and co-written by Lenny Henry, best known to the kid me as being on Tiswas and then his own sketch show, before later …
Continue readingPayback – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Morven Christie, Peter Mullan
Payback is a new six-part thriller on ITV which has Jed Mecurio’s name attached to it – he who brought us the brilliant Line of Duty – yet, it’s not him writing the script, which …
Continue readingThe Long Shadow – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Daniel Mays, Toby Jones
The Long Shadow looks at the case regarding the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, in the ’70s. I was only a child at the time, but I still remember it being in the news. The opener …
Continue readingThe Tower Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Gemma Whelan
The Tower Series 2 follows on two months on from the events of the first series, a three-parter, with cop Lizzie Adama (Tahirah Sharif – A Town Called Malice) now back in the job after …
Continue readingThe Reunion – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Ioan Gruffudd
The Reunion has an opening episode which jumps back and forth in time, in which Ioan Gruffudd‘s (Titanic) younger equivalent of his Thomas character, played by Billy Gunnion, has a daliance with a young Russian …
Continue readingMalpractice – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Niamh Algar
Malpractice sees Dr Lucinda Edwards (Niamh Algar – Censor, Suspect, Deceit) having the shift from hell when the drugs overdose of a young woman, Edith Owusu (Sherelle Armstrong), comes in, but so does gunman, having …
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