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Man Down has returned for a third series and I thought it was a fourth, given (a) the length of time the programme has been around, and (b) so much is packed into each episode …
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New Blood Case 3 Series 1 (Episodes 6-7) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood Case 3 is the final adventure for odd couple Stefan (Mark Strepan) and Rash (Ben Tavassoli) in the first series, and I stuggled to find a coherent storyline amongst what felt more like …
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Life Stripped Bare – Channel 4 documentary – The DVDfever Review
Life Stripped Bare is a bizarre one-off documentary looking at whether an individual can live without any of their possessions. For example, fashion designer Heidi has 1027 items in her flat. This includes her phone, …
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Brief Encounters Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Brief Encounters summarises the story of Jacqueline Gold, for ITV-friendly audiences, about how she started a business selling exotic lingerie and ‘marital aids’ at parties within the homes of her friends, under the Ann Summers …
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New Blood Case 2 Series 1 (Episodes 4-5) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood Case 2 centres around the mysterious death on a building site where, to us viewers there’s no mystery – we know what happened from the start, but the cops have to figure it …
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Power Monkeys Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Power Monkeys, without too much difficulty to calculate, comes from the same team as last year’s Ballot Monkeys, a superb satirical side-swipe at the general election written by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, the content …
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Reg (Tim Roth BBC drama) – The DVDfever Review
Reg Keys is a name I hadn’t heard before, but I was fully aware that we were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Portrayed by Tim Roth, his son, Tom (Zac Fox), was …
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New Blood Series 1 Case 1 (Episodes 1-3) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood. Some old ideas. But it all balances out as a show worth watching. Mark Strepan (as Serious Fraud Officer Stefan Kowolski) and Ben Tavassoli (as pavement-plodder-donut-scoffer-turned-budding detective Rash Sayyad) are new to these …
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Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle – The DVDfever Review
Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle is another in the long line of Steve Coogan‘s character’s spin-offs and I can’t claim to have seen every last minute of his output, but what I have seen I’ve hugely …
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Top Gear 2016 Episode 1 (Series 23) – The DVDfever Review
Top Gear returns to BBC2 with Chris Evans and Matt Matt LeBlanc taking over from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May after Clarkson punched his producer in a restaurant (which was referenced, here, in …
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