Beecham House centres around Beecham, John Beecham (Tom Bateman), in Delhi, 1795, who helped out the locals three years earlier after they came under some strife from some pesky pistol-packers. He used to be a …
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Catch-22 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 drama
Catch-22 is a famous novel, and as it’s a book, I’ve not read it, but now it’s been made into a “limited series”, which means it’s a one-off series that won’t spawn a second… …Well, …
Continue readingWar On Plastic With Hugh and Anita Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita, in case you’re think might refer to Hugh Jass and Anita Hugnkiss, is actually food-botherer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his assistant is Anita Rani, who, in the early part …
Continue readingYear Of The Rabbit Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Matt Berry
Year Of The Rabbit gives us Matt Berry as Matt Berry, this time in the Victorian era as Detective Inspector Rabbitt, who’s quickly annoyed when being given a cop partner for the first time, in …
Continue readingRachel, Jack and Ashley Too – Black Mirror Series 5 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too is the third, and final, episode in Black Mirror Series 5, and after two disappointing episodes so far, this one also has a well-worn premise of an idolised pop star …
Continue readingSmithereens – Black Mirror Series 5 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Smithereens – as in the phrase “smashed to smithereens” – is the second episode in Black Mirror Season 5, but early on, when we meet Chris (Andrew Scott), we see he’s a cabbie who’s overly …
Continue readingStriking Vipers – Black Mirror Series 5 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Striking Vipers is the first episode of Black Mirror Season 5, and this time, we’re only getting three episodes, but then we did get the immense Bandersnatch inbetween Christmas and New Year, which had over …
Continue readingWild Bill: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Rob Lowe
Wild Bill brings us something I’d never have imagined from when I was first regularly watching ITV as a kid in the ’80s – first of all, it starts movie legend Rob Lowe, and secondly …
Continue readingGood Omens Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant, Michael Sheen
Good Omens poses the opener that you might’ve thought that the universe began 14 billion years ago, and the Earth, 4.6bn years ago, but this series confirms that it all began on Sunday 21st October …
Continue readingSummer Of Rockets Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Keeley Hawes
Summer Of Rockets is a new Stephen Poliakoff drama set around the beginning of the Cold War, circa 1957/58, and while I’ve not really been able to get into his earlier works, this one did …
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