Michael Mcintyre’s Big Show is fronted by a man who’s like the Duracell Bunny on acid, delivering tame material to a huge audience but by jumping around like Tigger with ants in his pants, or …
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Scott and Bailey Series 5 – The DVDfever Review
Scott and Bailey is a drama I’d never seen before, but I get that the two leads – Rachel Bailey (Suranne Jones), now an acting Detective Inspector, and Janet Scott (Lesley Sharp) – have a …
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Trapped Season 1 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Trapped is about people who are trapped physically, such as the ocean liner that can’t get out of the ice – and is retained by the police even when it can, the oncoming snowstorm that’ll …
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Sex Box Series 2 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Sex Box shows us a box. But no sex. So, we’re seeing the wrong thing out of the two. It’s the titilating programme without any tits (other than one of the presenters) where they have …
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Brian Pern: The Complete Series 1-3 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Brian Pern is the prog-rock brainchild of Rhys Thomas OBE and The Fast Show‘s Simon Day, and this boxset takes in all three series – The Life of Rock, A Life in Rock and 45 …
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Marcella Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Anna Friel
Marcella opens with a shot of the lead character, played by Anna Friel, in the bath, bruised and bloodied, the bathroom looking slightly cleaner than that in The Young Ones. However, this is no dream …
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Undercover – The DVDfever Review – Adrian Lester, Sophie Okonedo
Undercover begins centred around Maya (Sophie Okonedo), a laywer who’s spent the last 20 years campaigning for Rudy Jones (Dennis Haysbert), a man imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. However, he’s jailed in …
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The Durrells Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Durrells is a new six-part ITV drama based on Gerald Durrell‘s Corfu Trilogy, mixing light family-friendly drama with a hint of comedy, with Keeley Hawes‘ matriarch Louisa, frustrated at her lot. She’s a widow …
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Can’t Touch This Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Can’t Touch This is Wipeout-Lite mixed with Ninja Warrior. I enjoyed Wipeout back in the day, or Total Wipeout as the BBC called it, but its main problem was that the obstacle course rarely changed. …
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Line Of Duty Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Line Of Duty Series 3 begins with Operation Damson, and a dawn raid on a man who is expected to be armed and extremely dangerous, possibly on his way to carry out a gangland execution. …
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