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The Great… what? The Great Soprendo? No, it’s Catherine The Great, but they couldn’t call it that because of the 2019 drama with Helen Mirren. Beginning in 1761 and billed as “an occasionally true story”, …
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Category: TV Series
Death To 2020 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Samuel L Jackson
Death To 2020 is less a new Black Mirror-style special for Netflix, and more akin to a Screenwipe special, but on a much larger budget than you’d get from the BBC. As such, those playing …
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Black Narcissus – The DVDfever Review – Gemma Arterton – BBC drama
Black Narcissus is a new take on the 1947 movie, and novel by Rumer Godden and broadcasts over three nights on BBC1 this Christmas. I’ve never seen that film, nor read the book, but reading …
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Blankety Blank 2020 Christmas Special – The DVDfever Review – Bradley Walsh
Blankety Blank 2020 Christmas Special revives the gameshow which, prior to this, was only ever good in its original form with Terry Wogan, from 1979-1983, before Les Dawson took over the year after, somehow making …
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Vicar Of Dibley in Lockdown (& does Black Lives Matter) – The DVDfever Review
Vicar Of Dibley in Lockdown is a three-parter of ten-minute short segments that’ll piggy back over repeats of other episodes when broadcast. I never *got* the original series when it aired, but this was mercifully …
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Raised By Wolves – The DVDfever Review – Amanda Collin – HBO / Sky Atlantic
Raised By Wolves is not a new version of the Channel 4 sitcom from shout-a-lot Caitlin Moron, but it’s what happens when two android siblings arrive on planet Kepler-22b after Earth is long since gone …
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Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel – The DVDfever Review – BBC gameshow
Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel is a new gameshow which seeks to answer the question: Why is Michael McIntyre popular? Well, maybe it won’t do that, but his wheel takes social distancing to a whole new …
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Winning Combination – The DVDfever Review – Omid Djalili – ITV Gameshow
Winning Combination is a new ITV gameshow from the makers of The Chase, so I’d be hoping for something good and long-lasting, but then they also brought us Bradley Walsh’s Cash Trapped. Hosted by Omid …
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Dash and Lily – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Austin Abrams, Midori Francis
Dash And Lily is a U-certificate drama (possibly) set at Christmas time, where love is an ideal achievement. In fact, it’s December 17th and carollers are singing “Joy to the world“, which just makes me …
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Industry – The DVDfever Review – Myha’la Herrold – HBO / BBC drama
Industry sees oodles of millennials applying for stockmarket jobs, being told to “make themselves indispensible” if they want to have a permanent position, AND still be working there in the six months. Some of them …
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