Expats is rich people’s problems, and less Desperate Housewives, but more Desperate Scriptwriting, since in order to get to an hour each episode in the first two, there’s more filler in the script than there …
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Category: TV Series
Masters of the Air – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan
Masters of the Air is a new 8-part drama on Apple TV+ from the creators of Band of Brothers, so we already know the precedent this is going to set, since that was a wonderful …
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Sexy Beast – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – James McArdle, Emun Elliott
Sexy Beast is an 8-part TV series based on the 2000 hit movie, which starred Ray Winstone in the lead as Gal Dove. Now with Gal portrayed by James McArdle (Andor) as a very smooth …
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Griselda – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Sofia Vergara
Griselda… Griselda Blanco, to be precise. Portrayed by Sofía Vergara (Strays), this six-part drama – beginning in the mid-’60s, even if everything looks like the ’70s – tells the tale of the real-life Ms Blanco …
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After The Flood – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Sophie Rundle
After The Flood is a new ITV drama which sees… a lot of rain pelting down, which means they must be filming in Manchester. Actually, this broadcast is surprisingly good timing, since in a number …
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Gladiators (2024) – The DVDfever Review – BBC gameshow – Bradley Walsh
Gladiators (2024): Can you feel the power? Not really. 2024 seems to be the year for remakes, as ITV have both Jeopardy! and Wheel Of Fortune, and now the BBC have brought back an old …
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Criminal Record – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Cush Jumbo, Peter Capaldi
Criminal Record is a new 8-part Apple TV+ drama where two long-standing cops will go at loggerheads, if we’re to believe the trailer and the long stares they exchange, but the average TV drama doesn’t …
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Significant Other (2023) – The DVDfever Review – ITV – Katherine Parkinson
Significant Other (2023) begins very ‘A Man Called Ove‘ (also A Man Called Otto), because lead male character Sam (Youssef Kerkour – Home) is trying to kill himself, but gets interrupted in the process… albeit, …
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Wheel Of Fortune (2024) – The DVDfever Preview – ITV gameshow – Graham Norton
Wheel Of Fortune (2024) brings the classic gameshow back to our screens which hasn’t been on since 2001 when, for a few weeks, it was presented by Paul Hendy, Who I’d long since forgotten about, …
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Fool Me Once – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Michelle Keegan, Richard Armitage
Fool Me Once brings us the premise we’ve always wanted: Michelle Keegan (Ten Pound Poms) is single! Woohoo! But for her, hubby Joe (Richard Armitage – Obsession) is dead… boo-hoo! Alas, for her character, Maya, …
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