A Teacher is a new 10-part drama where each episode is just 25 minutes, so it may as well be five normal-length episodes. Claire Wilson (Kate Mara – The Martian) is just starting her first …
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The Serpent – The DVDfever Review – Jenna Coleman, Tahar Rahim
The Serpent is the name given to French fraudster Charles Sobhraj (Tahir Rahim), who the opening text tells us was tracked down by an American news crew in Paris, in 1997, where he was living …
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Revolution Of The Daleks – Doctor Who – New Year 2021 Special – The DVDfever Review
Revolution Of The Daleks follows on from The Timeless Children, just after The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) has been imprisoned in an impossible fortress, and now the Daleks are returning. Yes, the bloody Daleks, again. Every …
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Traces – The DVDfever Review – Molly Windsor – BBC / Alibi drama
Traces opens with Emma Hedges’ (Molly Windsor – Cheat) mother having been murdered and she bursts into Professor Sarah Gordon’s (Laura Fraser) office, wanting to share her thoughts on how to solve it… Then flashback …
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Equinox – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Danica Curcic
Equinox is a new Danish drama on Netflix which starts in 1999, where and a large group of young male and female graduates head off on a party bus and disappear… That said, the bus …
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Pandemonium – The DVDfever Review – Alison Steadman
Pandemonium is a one-off sitcom episode in a lockdown setting… and no doubt, if it’s a hit, it’ll return for a full series. However, as the family is filmed, from January 2020 onwards, beginning with …
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Lingo – The DVDfever Review – Adil Ray – ITV Gameshow
Lingo is a new ITV quiz show which premieres on New Year’s Day, and then moves to the Monday 3pm slot from the week after, displacing the current Tenable repeats. Talking of which, after seeing …
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The Great – The DVDfever Review – Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult
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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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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