Kiri is a new four-part drama starring Sarah Lancashire as Miriam, a social worker who owns a dog with low-level depression, whom she dotes upon, and her visits to her mother, Celia (Sue Johnston), in …
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Category: TV Series
Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out – 2017 Christmas Special – The DVDfever Review
TROUSERS! Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out was one of my favourite shows on Channel 4 when it first aired in 1990, and it only ran for two series, yet stuck in my brain ever …
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Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? – The DVDfever Review
Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? is a new documentary about the radio sports presenter turned TV megastar… in Norwich. This documentary ‘celebrates’ Alan Patridge’s return to the BBC, next year reporting on …
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The Miniaturist: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Anya Taylor-Joy
The Miniaturist is set in Amsterdam, 1686, where Petronella, aka Nella (Split‘s Anya Taylor-Joy) is marrying sugar trader Johannes Brandt (Alex Hassell), and feels very much a fish out of water, even though she’s quite …
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Twice Upon A Time – Doctor Who Christmas 2017 – The DVDfever Review
Twice Upon A Time sees The First Doctor – played originally by William Hartnell, but here by David Bradley – in his final story arc, The Tenth Planet, leaving for the TARDIS in the South …
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The League of Gentlemen 2017 Christmas Specials Complete Series – The DVDfever Review
The League of Gentlemen is something I never got into back in the day. I couldn’t watch the first two series thanks to the canned laughter (when they take audience laughs from another part of …
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Shamed – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 drama
Shamed is a one-off “What’s going on?” drama, where one minute, we see Nathan (Nick Blood, above) happy with fiancee Julia (Tanya Fear), and the next, he’s locked up in a small, red room; waking …
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Bancroft Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Parish ITV drama
Bancroft… Anne Bancroft… no, that’s The Graduate. This, however, begins in 1990, and the song “Killer“, by Adamski and Seal. Of course, anyone with a brain knows that 1990 was time for the Guru, but …
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Chinese Burn – The DVDfever Review – BBC Three pilot episode
Chinese Burn is a new BBC Three comedy pilot for which the billing states will “smash all Chinese stereotypes with a round-house kick”. It doesn’t, really. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. …
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Love, Lies and Records Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Kay Mellor
Love, Lies and Records is the latest Kay Mellor drama to hit TV screens and sees Ashley Jensen in a welcome return from the US to star in a UK series. The rather wordy, alliterative …
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