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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Category: TV Series
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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Redemption – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Paula Malcomson
Redemption is one of those ITV dramas which first started life on their spin-off pay channel, Britbox, this one airing in April 2022. Taking the lead is Paula Malcomson as hard-nosed DI Colette Cunningham, and …
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School Spirits – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Peyton List
School Spirits centres around teenager Madison Nears (Peyton List – Then Came You), who has a big problem: She’s dead. Additionally, she doesn’t know why, but what she has worked out is that a missing …
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Daisy Jones and The Six – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime – Riley Keough
Daisy Jones And The Six tells the story of the titular rock band from their rise in the 1970s, and to see where they are, later in life. It begins with the text: “On October …
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Cheat (2023) – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Danny Dyer, Ellie Taylor
Cheat (2023) is a new Netflix gameshow, yes, gameshow. You don’t get many of those on this platform. Anyhoo, it co-stars Danny Dyer – who has had a bit on BBC1 with The Wall (even …
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