Morning Live looks like the kind of show which is intended to be a rival to This Morning on ITV, and Jeremy Vine on Channel 5. However, this is a mercifully short 45 minutes, so …
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Category: TV Series
The Undoing – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Grant, Nicole Kidman – HBO / Sky Atlantic
The Undoing is a new limited series (i.e. one series only) on both HBO and Sky Atlantic with a very posh well-to-do couple for whom things are about to go South. Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant …
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Barbarians – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Jeanne Goursaud
Barbarians begins in the Teutoburg Forest, in the year 9AD in what could be a warring battle between three Roman legions and the Germanic tribes whom they refer to as Barbarians, even though it’s set …
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Over The Moon – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Sandra Oh
Over The Moon teaches us early on that scientists can tell us a lot about space except the space dog, who takes a bite out of the moon, and when it’s a full moon, that …
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The Queen’s Gambit – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Anya Taylor-Joy
The Queen’s Gambit centres around child chess prodigy Beth and, yes, the main star of this is Anya Taylor-Joy (Split), but in the first episode, she appears only at the start in a brief scene …
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The Sister – The DVDfever Review – Russell Tovey – ITV drama
The Sister opens in the present day when we see Nathan (Russell Tovey – Years And Years) weighing up the option of swigging back a load of pills with some booze, before we head back …
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Roadkill – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Laurie – BBC drama
Roadkill is a showcase for Hugh Laurie as long-in-the-tooth Tory (albeit, not stated as such) MP Peter Laurence, who states he comes from the same background as the people he represents, is also one of …
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Someone Has To Die – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Spanish drama
Someone Has to Die has had a lot of expectation put upon it, but when it comes to the first episode, there’s nothing else to impart than what’s in the back description, whereas Gabino comes …
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Out Of Her Mind – The DVDfever Review – Sara Pascoe
Out Of Her Mind is another of those sitcoms ‘loosely based’ on the writer/creator’s own life, this time being comedian Sara Pascoe – unsurprisingly, as ‘Sara’ – talking directly to the camera, the main basis …
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Taskmaster – The DVDfever Review – Greg Davies, Alex Horne
Taskmaster is a celebrity gameshow which I’ve never seen before, but which I figured I’d give a go now it’s on Channel 4 with Series 10. Well, they’re sort-of celebrities. I’ve heard of Johnny Vegas, …
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