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Blue Lights centres around newbie cop PC Grace Ellis (Sian Brooke – No Return, Stephen), who’s just retrained after a long career in social service. Quite why she would is anyone’s guess, given that working …
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Tempting Fortune – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 gameshow – Paddy McGuinness
Tempting Fortune follows Rise And Fall, by being the second new gameshow on Channel 4 within the space of a week, and they don’t get too many of these, generally. There are 12 strangers meeting …
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Great Expectations – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Olivia Colman
Great Expectations is something I didn’t particularly have for yet another adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel. I’ve never read it, but for whatever reason, previews of this were available for big websites, but not …
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The Night Agent – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Gabriel Basso, Hong Chau
The Night Agent is another political drama series based upon a novel, and this time round, after giving up his seat on the subway, FBI bloke Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso – Hillbilly Elegy) spots some …
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Rise and Fall – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 gameshow – Greg James
Rise And Fall is a new Channel 4 gameshow, presented by Radio 1’s Greg James, which has a premise which sounds a bit like the recent The Traitors, on BBC1. Once again, a bunch of …
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Challenge Anneka – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 – Anneka Rice
Challenge Anneka is back, and at first, I thought: it has the same music, initially, but then tries to change it, and surely they should’ve stuck to the original? Or was it something amiss with …
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Swarm – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Dominique Fishback, Donald Glover
Swarm begins with the text: “This is not a work of fiction. Any similarity to real people and events is intentional.” I figured this was for comedic value – given that it is co-created by …
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Class Of 07 – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Emily Browning, Caitlin Stasey
Class Of 07 is about a high school reunion, as you’d expect, but everyone has their different backgrounds as to what they’ve been up to, and for Zoe (Emily Browning), she inadvertently showed herself up …
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Extrapolations – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Meryl Streep, Kit Harington
Extrapolations shows it’s Apple TV+’s turn to throw its hat into the “Let’s scare everyone about so-called man-made global warning”, which comes across like Greta Thunberg on acid. Starting in 2037 (and going up to …
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A Town Called Malice – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Jason Flemyng
A Town Called Malice takes us back to the ’80s – the best ever decade – where Gene Lord (Jack Rowan – Adulting: On The Edge) and Cindy Carter (Tahirah Sharif – The Tower) chatting …
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