Truelove deals with the very dark subject of death, and when knowing you have a terminal illness and – understandably – want to choose your own time to shuffle off your mortal coil, it should …
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Category: TV Series
Jeopardy! – The DVDfever Review – ITV gameshow – Stephen Fry
Jeopardy! sees Stephen Fry topping up his pension with a typical ITV afternoon gameshow, and I missed the first edition because I was busy counting my toenail-clipping collection. However, I figured I hadn’t missed an …
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Mr Bates vs The Post Office – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Toby Jones
Mr Bates vs The Post Office tells of the situation regarding the Horizon Post Office scandal, based around the Horizon computer system which was introduced into post offices in 1999, and led to many subpostmasters …
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Men Up – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Iwan Rheon, Joanna Page
Men Up is a new BBC TV movie based on a true story, about a group of men in Wales who have trouble keeping the British end up. We open with Meurig Jenkins (Iwan Rheon …
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Nolly – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Helena Bonham Carter
Nolly is ITV’s 3-part drama based around TV icon Noele Gordon (played here by Helena Bonham-Carter – The Crown), who ruled the motel in ITV soap opera Crossroads, until the producers had a change of …
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Murder is Easy – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – David Jonsson, Morfydd Clark
Murder is Easy is based on an Agatha Christie story first published in 1939, although this adaptation is set in 1954, and with apparently cultural anthropologist Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson – Industry) coming from Nigeria …
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The Church on Ruby Road – Doctor Who Christmas Special 2023 – The DVDfever Review – Ncuti Gatwa
The Church on Ruby Road is the 2023 Christmas episode of Doctor Who. Hanging around for a while as The Doctor is Ncuti Gatwa, who I’ve only seen in the mediocre Barbie, and as a …
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The Winter King – The DVDfever Review – ITVX drama – Iain De Caestecker
The Winter King opens with the climax to a battle, after Arthur (Iain De Caestecker – The Control Room) has to break the news to Dad, Uther (Eddie Marsan – The Thief His Wife and …
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Vanishing Act – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Kate Atkinson
Vanishing Act continues to confirm that there are few things more scummy in life than fraudsters. In this case, it’s all about Australian Melissa Caddick (Kate Atkinson), who did a disappearing act after she was …
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The Crown Season 6 Part 2 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
The Crown Season 6 Part 2 brings the entire series to a close, understandably beginning with Prince William now at boarding school, and trying to deal with the death of his mother, Diana, in what’s …
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