Gentleman Jack begins in 1832, and sees Suranne Jones (Save Me, Scott and Bailey, Doctor Foster) take the lead of landowner Anne Lister, who’s trying to transform her family estate, so it’s a bit like …
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Hatton Garden: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – ITV 2019 Drama
Hatton Garden sees the story of the titular bank robbery being told for the third time, following 2017’s The Hatton Garden Job, and 2018’s King Of Thieves, with a more famous cast (and not as …
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The Virtues: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham
The Virtues is a new four-part series which reunites This Is England‘s Shane Meadows with actor Stephen Graham, here, as Joseph, a painter and decorator who has reached the end of his tether. Drink and …
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Years And Years: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Russell T Davies
Years And Years is a new drama from Russell T Davies, whose work has had a chequered past with me, in that I really enjoyed some, but didn’t like others. This starts off as a …
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Chernobyl: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Drama of the Year! – Out now on Blu-ray!
Chernobyl is a new Sky Atlantic drama which focuses on the tragedy when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor went into meltdown following the explosion of the core inside, and turned the working town of Pripyat into …
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Climate Change: The Facts – The DVDfever Review – David Attenborough
Climate Change: The Facts contains at least two facts: (a) the 2019 date of production at the end, and (b) it’s presented by David Attenborough. David Attenborough makes a lot of capital out of how …
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Ghosts: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Horrible Histories cast
Ghosts basically shows us that Horrible Histories has finally made it to prime-time television, albeit with a bit more adult content at times, even if the language rarely steps above a U-certificate. The last known …
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Naked Beach Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 series
Naked Beach is full of people stripping off because they don’t like their own bodies, and so they’re forcing themselves on us, instead. Now, if this had been shown after the watershed, at 9pm, I …
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Don’t Forget The Driver: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Toby Jones
Don’t Forget The Driver has blazed the trail for just one thing – you don’t often get a 30-minute comedy in a cinemascope 2.35:1-style ratio. And that’s all that surprised me in this incredibly limp …
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The Victim: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Kelly Macdonald
The Victim follows ITV’s recent Cheat as being a four-part drama spread out over four consecutive nights, which is much better than putting it out over the same number of weeks, and expecting viewers to …
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