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The League of Gentlemen is something I never got into back in the day. I couldn’t watch the first two series thanks to the canned laughter (when they take audience laughs from another part of …
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Shamed – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 drama
Shamed is a one-off “What’s going on?” drama, where one minute, we see Nathan (Nick Blood, above) happy with fiancee Julia (Tanya Fear), and the next, he’s locked up in a small, red room; waking …
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Bancroft Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Parish ITV drama
Bancroft… Anne Bancroft… no, that’s The Graduate. This, however, begins in 1990, and the song “Killer“, by Adamski and Seal. Of course, anyone with a brain knows that 1990 was time for the Guru, but …
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Chinese Burn – The DVDfever Review – BBC Three pilot episode
Chinese Burn is a new BBC Three comedy pilot for which the billing states will “smash all Chinese stereotypes with a round-house kick”. It doesn’t, really. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. …
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Love, Lies and Records Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Kay Mellor
Love, Lies and Records is the latest Kay Mellor drama to hit TV screens and sees Ashley Jensen in a welcome return from the US to star in a UK series. The rather wordy, alliterative …
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Unspeakable – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 drama
Unspeakable centres around Jo (Indira Varma) and her 11-year-old daughter Katie (Nina Sorrentino), who’s becoming increasingly distant, soon followed by Jo receiving a text message from someone unknown, who claims her nurse boyfriend, Danny (Luke …
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Sick Note Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Rupert Grint comedy
Sick Note had me from the trailer, simply because it’s the first time I’ve seen Don Johnson in a TV series since Miami Vice. However, the series mainly centres around Daniel Glass (Rupert Grint), who’s …
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Living The Dream – The DVDfever Review – Philip Glenister
Living the Dream is a new Sky One ‘fish out of water’ comedy/drama where Mal Pemberton (Philip Glenister) thinks the answer to life’s problems is to move him and his family out to Florida for …
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Human Is – Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Human Is is the sixth episode of Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, and takes place on Earth 2520AD, or Terra, as it’s known then. The planet’s not doing terribly well, but still, at least we …
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Gunpowder: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Kit Harington
Gunpowder is centred around the 1605 Gunpowder plot, as Guy Fawkes wants to blow up the Houses of Parliament. However, this three-parter begins in 1603, at which point Elizabeth I has died, and James I …
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