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 …
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Reg (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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New Blood Series 1 Case 1 (Episodes 1-3) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood. Some old ideas. But it all balances out as a show worth watching. Mark Strepan (as Serious Fraud Officer Stefan Kowolski) and Ben Tavassoli (as pavement-plodder-donut-scoffer-turned-budding detective Rash Sayyad) are new to these …
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Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle – The DVDfever Review
Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle is another in the long line of Steve Coogan‘s character’s spin-offs and I can’t claim to have seen every last minute of his output, but what I have seen I’ve hugely …
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Top Gear 2016 Episode 1 (Series 23) – The DVDfever Review
Top Gear returns to BBC2 with Chris Evans and Matt Matt LeBlanc taking over from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May after Clarkson punched his producer in a restaurant (which was referenced, here, in …
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Love, Nina Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Love, Nina begins with us first seeing the titular character walking barefoot, which she does constantly… because she’s quirky. However, there’s no way anyone would do that normally, given all the crap on the ground. …
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Going Forward Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Going Forward carries on where Getting On left off, with Jo Brand returning as nurse Kim Wilde, having left the NHs two years earlier and now works for a private healthcare firm, Buccaneer 2000, doing …
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A Different Brain: Louis Theroux – The DVDfever Review
A Different Brain is the second new Louis Theroux documentary this year, and it looks at a number of people who’ve suffered brain Injuries due to various reasons. Louis describes the situation brilliantly early on, …
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Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection on DVD – The DVDfever Review
Roobarb and Custard is one of many classic TV series from my childhood, the original of which was made in 1974 when I was just two, so I mostly remember it as it was repeated …
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Mum Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Mum is Lesley Manville‘s character, Cathy (right), coming to terms with her husband, Dave, haven’t recently passed away. As with any death, it’s not just about what still lies around the house, but little things …
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