The 1% Club is apparently the top-most percentile for all the brainboxes out there, so who’s in it? Well, before I explain the game, the first question asked – just to give a flavour of …
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Hard Cell – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Catherine Tate
Hard Cell: While Catherine Tate’s The Nan Movie clutters up UK cinemas, she brings a new comedy to Netflix with this new six-part sitcom. You might get the feeling I’m not a big fan of …
Continue readingJimmy Savile: A British Horror Story – The DVDfever Review – Netflix documentary
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story is a Limited Series split into two parts, and opening with clips of Jim’ll Fix It, the show where that man would somehow arrange the wish of your dreams, …
Continue readingHullraisers – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Leah Brotherhead
Hullraisers is a new Channel 4 sitcom which begins with a young woman doing the early morning ‘Walk of Shame’ as she comes home from a night out, at a time when everyone’s long since …
Continue readingJulia – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Lancashire – Sky Atlantic / HBO Max
Julia… Julia Child… she became a famous chef, and when we first see her, she’s cooked a massive amount of food for a dinner party, making me wonder how she managed to keep it hot …
Continue readingDeadline – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – James D’Arcy
Deadline is another new four-part nightly drama for Channel 5. Journalist James Alden (James D’Arcy) is long past his best, but he has the exclusive chance to interview gold-digger and murder suspect Natalie Varga (Charlie …
Continue readingSlow Horses – The DVDfever Review – Gary Oldman – Apple TV+
Slow Horses centres around an MI5 team who are a bit rubbish, making several mistakes in their career to date, so it makes you wonder if they’ve ever been sent for re-training, including the hot-headed …
Continue readingThe Last Bus – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Robert Sheehan
The Last Bus begins at Monkhouse Industries, where some clumsy lab workers drop a bizarre orb, which subsequently zooms off by itself… Then over to Braelawn Academy where teacher Mr Short (Tom Basden) is playing …
Continue readingThen Barbara Met Alan – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Ruth Madeley
Then Barbara Met Alan centres around two activists – comedian Barbara Lisicki (Ruth Madeley) and singer-songwriter Alan Holdsworth (Arthur Hughes), who meet up a gig where she’s doing stand-up, and he’s performing in a band, …
Continue readingTop Boy Season 2 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Ashley Walters
Top Boy Season 2 (or Series 4 if we’re counting properly – but then as I said last time, the first two Channel 4 series have been renamed Top Boy: Summerhouse) is here, and comes …
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