Luther Season 5‘s arrival means the man with the grey trench coat is back. Women will love this, since it’s only a handful of minutes before Idris Elba is taking his shirt off in the …
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Resolution – Doctor Who 2019 New Year Special – The DVDfever Review
Resolution is the only Doctor Who episode we’ll get in 2019, since there’s no new series coming until 2020, thanks to the lazy, new head honcho, Chris Chibnall, which is why there’s no ‘Next time’ …
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Les Misérables: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – 2019 BBC drama
Les Misérables begins in June 1815, the day after the battle of Waterloo, and there are heaps of dead bodies around. The intro text tells us that after twenty years of war, France is defeated; …
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The ABC Murders: The Complete Series (2018) – The DVDfever Review – Agatha Christie BBC drama
The ABC Murders is the latest Agatha Christie tale to be told on BBC1, and after Ordeal By Innocence was delayed from last Christmas, and bumped to April this year, when it was told in …
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Click And Collect – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Merchant
Click And Collect is to TV in 2018 what Jingle All The Way was to films in 1996, except only one will be watched regularly at Christmas time… Instead of Arnie tracking down the last …
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King Gary – The DVDfever Review – Tom Davis
King Gary is one of those sitcoms where a TV channel has a star for which they want to find the perfect vehicle, and so they come up with any old tired cliche to see …
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Torvill And Dean – The DVDfever Review – 2018 ITV drama
Torvill and Dean – outside of Robin Cousins, they’re the only ice skaters of whom most of us know the name. I don’t know of anyone crying out for a film about this pair, certainly …
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Watership Down 2018: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – James McAvoy
Watership Down 2018 is a new four-part adaptation of the classic novel with a stellar cast, starting with “The Journey”. Is that – The Unexpected Journey? But how can it be four episodes when only …
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Not Going Out Ding Dong Merrily on Live – The 2018 Live Episode – The DVDfever Review – Lee Mack
Not Going Out Ding Dong Merrily on Live is the one-off live episode for a series for which I’ve only ever seen occasionally, and in its usual form, I’ve found it about as funny as …
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The Long Song: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
The Long Song is set during the slaves’ Christmas rebellion of 1831, and while I’m not usually one for period dramas, if they can somehow make it engaging, then they still do have a chance. …
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