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Ackley Bridge is Channel 4’s first foray into 8pm weekly drama in quite some time, and school-based dramas can last a long time, if BBC’s Waterloo Road is anything to go by, as that ran …
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The Lie Of The Land – Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 8 – The DVDfever Review
The Lie Of The Land takes place six months on from the arrival of the Monks, and it appears they’ve been responsible for everything in the world from when it began… such is the brainwashing …
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Broken Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Jimmy McGovern BBC Drama
Broken is a new Jimmy McGovern six-part drama and one that’s difficult to assess from just a single episode. Sean Bean is Catholic priest Father Michael Kerrigan, a man with a large parrish who look …
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The Legacy Season 3 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The Legacy Season 3 is a series I was in, initially, two minds about watching. I loved the first one, but found the second treaded water far too much, as if they’d run out of …
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The Handmaid’s Tale Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – The Amish version of Prison Break!
The Handmaid’s Tale is the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood‘s novel, which I remember seeing on the big screen in the 1990 movie, starring Natasha Richardson and Faye Dunaway while I was at Keele University. …
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The Pyramid At The End Of The World – Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 7 – The DVDfever Review
The Pyramid At The End Of The World picks up where Extremis left off, with the baddie monks with no nose… so how do they smell? Oh… I made that joke last week. Well, if …
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Paula Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – BBC Drama – Fatal Attraction meets F.E.A.R.
Paula is a chemistry teacher who’s not having much luck in the men dept. Her best hope of late is having an affair with PE teacher Phiip, who’s married, then she discovers a rat infestation …
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White Gold Episode 1 – Salesmen Are Like Vampires – The DVDfever Review
White Gold is so ’80s that it even starts with the BBC2 ident from that era. The year is 1983 – my favourite year for music as that’s when I started buying singles, so one …
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Extremis – Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Extremis – or, rather, In extremis – is Latin for “in the farthest reaches” or “at the point of death”. How about a load of confusing rubbish that shows Steven Moffat at his most self-indulgent? …
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Three Girls – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Molly Windsor
Three Girls takes place over three nights on BBC1 and is based on a true story. The story began with schoolgirl Holly (Molly Windsor) being assaulted in the local ‘Top Curry’ takeaway, her father, Jim …
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