Mrs Brown’s Boys Live is my first experience of a full Mrs Brown’s Boys episode, and I can see why I’ve avoided it until now. After three series, a number of Christmas specials and even …
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Friday Night Dinner Series 4 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Friday Night Dinner returns for a fourth series with no sign of slowing down with Robert Popper’s quickfire rate of gags. Around this point, you’d expect the average sitcom to have long spent its best, …
Continue readingThe Secret Agent Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Secret Agent is mild-mannered shopkeeper Verloc (Toby Jones), who’s been doing some work for the Russian Embassy along the way, but now there’s a new broom at the office in London, First Secretary Mr …
Continue readingMan Down Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Man Down has returned for a third series and I thought it was a fourth, given (a) the length of time the programme has been around, and (b) so much is packed into each episode …
Continue readingNew Blood Case 3 Series 1 (Episodes 6-7) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood Case 3 is the final adventure for odd couple Stefan (Mark Strepan) and Rash (Ben Tavassoli) in the first series, and I stuggled to find a coherent storyline amongst what felt more like …
Continue readingLife Stripped Bare – Channel 4 documentary – The DVDfever Review
Life Stripped Bare is a bizarre one-off documentary looking at whether an individual can live without any of their possessions. For example, fashion designer Heidi has 1027 items in her flat. This includes her phone, …
Continue readingBrief Encounters Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Brief Encounters summarises the story of Jacqueline Gold, for ITV-friendly audiences, about how she started a business selling exotic lingerie and ‘marital aids’ at parties within the homes of her friends, under the Ann Summers …
Continue readingNew Blood Case 2 Series 1 (Episodes 4-5) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood Case 2 centres around the mysterious death on a building site where, to us viewers there’s no mystery – we know what happened from the start, but the cops have to figure it …
Continue readingPower Monkeys Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Power Monkeys, without too much difficulty to calculate, comes from the same team as last year’s Ballot Monkeys, a superb satirical side-swipe at the general election written by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, the content …
Continue readingReg (Tim Roth BBC drama) – The DVDfever Review
Reg Keys is a name I hadn’t heard before, but I was fully aware that we were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Portrayed by Tim Roth, his son, Tom (Zac Fox), was …
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