As ITV scrabble around to find something as good as The Chase, they hire Giles Coren to host new primetime show 500 Questions. Can Giles Coren (right) count up to 500? Well, this pillock couldn’t …
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Robot Wars 2016 – Series 8 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Robot Wars has been resurrected after 12 years off-air. Why? Good question. Either way, it gives them a chance to promote it from 6pm tea-time (which now languishes in never-ending quiz-show hell) to Sunday prime …
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Mrs Brown’s Boys Live: Mammy Sutra – The DVDfever Review
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, …
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The 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 …
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Man 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 …
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New 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 …
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Life 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, …
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Brief 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 …
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New 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 …
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