The Good Ship Murder is a new escapist whodunit drama from Channel 5, led by Jack Grayling, former cop and now the lounge cabaret singer on this luxury Mediterranean cruise ship. Catherine Tyldesley (Scarborough, Viewpoint) …
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Carla Gugino
The Fall of the House of Usher is a new 8-part Netflix series, as well as the title of one of Edgar Allen Poe‘s short stories, and as I see the episode listing coming up, …
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The Reckoning – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Steve Coogan
The Reckoning is the four-part drama which starts Steve Coogan (This Time With Alan Partridge) as the late, disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, given everything we now know he got up to during his life and …
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Frasier – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Kelsey Grammer
Frasier is back in the building, and while repeats of the original 11-season run continue daily on Channel 4, this return to our screens is only on Paramount+ I have to say that I was …
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Bargain – The DVDfever Review – Paramount+ – Jeon Jong-seo
Bargain begins with a man, who I thought was having a first date in a clandestine hotel room situation, with a young 18-year-old woman, Park Joo Young (Jeon Jong-seo), who claims to be a virgin, …
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Payback – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Morven Christie, Peter Mullan
Payback is a new six-part thriller on ITV which has Jed Mecurio’s name attached to it – he who brought us the brilliant Line of Duty – yet, it’s not him writing the script, which …
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Partygate – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Georgie Henley
Partygate is something that shouldn’t have to exist, as a drama. However, it does, because we currently have the most corrupt bunch of bastards in power than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. When the …
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Boiling Point (2023) – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Stephen Graham
Boiling Point (2023) follows on from the 2021 movie, which hasn’t yet aired on regular telly – the fact of which does seem rather an odd mis-step, but if you have Netflix, you can see …
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Gen V – The DVDfever Review – Amazon Prime Video – Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway
Gen V is a spin-off from Prime Video’s The Boys, a series I haven’t seen, but hey, superhero movies and shows – how different can they be compared to the equivalent I’ve seen before many …
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The Long Shadow – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Daniel Mays, Toby Jones
The Long Shadow looks at the case regarding the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, in the ’70s. I was only a child at the time, but I still remember it being in the news. The opener …
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