Criminal Record is a new 8-part Apple TV+ drama where two long-standing cops will go at loggerheads, if we’re to believe the trailer and the long stares they exchange, but the average TV drama doesn’t …
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Category: TV Series
Significant Other (2023) – The DVDfever Review – ITV – Katherine Parkinson
Significant Other (2023) begins very ‘A Man Called Ove‘ (also A Man Called Otto), because lead male character Sam (Youssef Kerkour – Home) is trying to kill himself, but gets interrupted in the process… albeit, …
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Wheel Of Fortune (2024) – The DVDfever Preview – ITV gameshow – Graham Norton
Wheel Of Fortune (2024) brings the classic gameshow back to our screens which hasn’t been on since 2001 when, for a few weeks, it was presented by Paul Hendy, Who I’d long since forgotten about, …
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Fool Me Once – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Michelle Keegan, Richard Armitage
Fool Me Once brings us the premise we’ve always wanted: Michelle Keegan (Ten Pound Poms) is single! Woohoo! But for her, hubby Joe (Richard Armitage – Obsession) is dead… boo-hoo! Alas, for her character, Maya, …
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Truelove – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Lindsay Duncan, Clarke Peters
Truelove deals with the very dark subject of death, and when knowing you have a terminal illness and – understandably – want to choose your own time to shuffle off your mortal coil, it should …
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Jeopardy! – The DVDfever Review – ITV gameshow – Stephen Fry
Jeopardy! sees Stephen Fry topping up his pension with a typical ITV afternoon gameshow, and I missed the first edition because I was busy counting my toenail-clipping collection. However, I figured I hadn’t missed an …
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Mr Bates vs The Post Office – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Toby Jones
Mr Bates vs The Post Office tells of the situation regarding the Horizon Post Office scandal, based around the Horizon computer system which was introduced into post offices in 1999, and led to many subpostmasters …
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Men Up – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Iwan Rheon, Joanna Page
Men Up is a new BBC TV movie based on a true story, about a group of men in Wales who have trouble keeping the British end up. We open with Meurig Jenkins (Iwan Rheon …
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Nolly – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Helena Bonham Carter
Nolly is ITV’s 3-part drama based around TV icon Noele Gordon (played here by Helena Bonham-Carter – The Crown), who ruled the motel in ITV soap opera Crossroads, until the producers had a change of …
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Murder is Easy – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – David Jonsson, Morfydd Clark
Murder is Easy is based on an Agatha Christie story first published in 1939, although this adaptation is set in 1954, and with apparently cultural anthropologist Luke Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson – Industry) coming from Nigeria …
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