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Slow Horses centres around an MI5 team who are a bit rubbish, making several mistakes in their career to date, so it makes you wonder if they’ve ever been sent for re-training, including the hot-headed …
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The Last Bus – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Robert Sheehan
The Last Bus begins at Monkhouse Industries, where some clumsy lab workers drop a bizarre orb, which subsequently zooms off by itself… Then over to Braelawn Academy where teacher Mr Short (Tom Basden) is playing …
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Then Barbara Met Alan – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Ruth Madeley
Then Barbara Met Alan centres around two activists – comedian Barbara Lisicki (Ruth Madeley) and singer-songwriter Alan Holdsworth (Arthur Hughes), who meet up a gig where she’s doing stand-up, and he’s performing in a band, …
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Top Boy Season 2 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Ashley Walters
Top Boy Season 2 (or Series 4 if we’re counting properly – but then as I said last time, the first two Channel 4 series have been renamed Top Boy: Summerhouse) is here, and comes …
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One And Six Zeros – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Dara O’Briain
One And Six Zeros sees a family of three (in the first episode) – Couple Steve and Stella, with daughter, Laura – given the chance to win a million pounds, and asked questions by comedian …
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Holding – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Graham Norton drama
Holding centres around cop Sgt PJ Collins (Conleth Hill), who’s fed up of no real crimes taking place, such as when Mrs Doyle… sorry, Eileen O’Driscoll (Pauline McLynn), is annoyed that the house opposite her …
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Queens of Mystery – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Olivia Vinall
Queens of Mystery centres around Matilda “Mattie” Stone (Olivia Vinall), whose mother, Eleanor, disappeared when she was 3 years old, leaving her to stay with a succession of aunts elsewhere, including one who runs a …
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Our House – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Tuppence Middleton
Our House is not a Madness song reference, but Fi Lawson (Tuppence Middleton – The Commuter: Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, Mank) gets home from a work trip away and much to her surprise, someone …
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The Witchfinder – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Tim Key, Daisy May Cooper
The Witchfinder is one of those set-in-the-past sitcoms where, in this case, it’s 17th Century life with the added aspect of modern-day language and structure, so when we first meet Daisy May Cooper‘s character, Thomasine …
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Pieces Of Her – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Toni Collette
Pieces of Her centres around the fractured relationship between Andy Oliver (Bella Heathcote), a young woman turning 30, who works in a 911 phone line in the small town of Belle Isle, and she moved …
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