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Banged Up takes place in HMP Shrewsbury, which has been shut down for ten years and is about to get an influx of newcomers – a mix of celebs and real prisoners, one even teaching …
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Category: TV Series
Time Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey
Time Series 2 brings the prison drama back to our screens after a blistering first three-parter with Sean Bean and Stephen Graham. Before we know what’s happened, one minute, we see single mother Orla (Jodie …
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Three Little Birds – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Lenny Henry
Three Little Birds is Lenny Henry’s Windrush drama, which he has created and co-written by Lenny Henry, best known to the kid me as being on Tiswas and then his own sketch show, before later …
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The Burning Girls – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Samantha Morton
The Burning Girls starts off in 1556, in the Chapel Croft Village, Sussex, where two girls are being burned at the stake. So, not exactly a family-friendly start to the proceedings, and then fast-forward to …
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Bodies – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Stephen Graham
Bodies is a new 8-part drama where a dead body is found in four different timelines, but it’s actually the same body! Starting in 2023, cop Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor – Grace) is on the …
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Lessons in Chemistry – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Brie Larson
Lessons in Chemistry begins with Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson – Fast X) hosting a cookery show, a la Delia Smith in the ’80s, but since this is set during the ’60s, programmes are filmed live …
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The Good Ship Murder – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Catherine Tyldesley
The Good Ship Murder is a new escapist whodunit drama from Channel 5, led by Jack Grayling, former cop and now the lounge cabaret singer on this luxury Mediterranean cruise ship. Catherine Tyldesley (Scarborough, Viewpoint) …
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Carla Gugino
The Fall of the House of Usher is a new 8-part Netflix series, as well as the title of one of Edgar Allen Poe‘s short stories, and as I see the episode listing coming up, …
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The Reckoning – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Steve Coogan
The Reckoning is the four-part drama which starts Steve Coogan (This Time With Alan Partridge) as the late, disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, given everything we now know he got up to during his life and …
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Frasier – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Kelsey Grammer
Frasier is back in the building, and while repeats of the original 11-season run continue daily on Channel 4, this return to our screens is only on Paramount+ I have to say that I was …
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