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, …
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Category: TV Series
Hullraisers – 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 …
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Julia – 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 …
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Deadline – 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 …
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Slow 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 …
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The 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 …
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Then 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, …
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Top 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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One And Six Zeros – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Dara O’Briain
One And Six Zeros sees a family of three (in the first episode) – Couple Steve and Stella, with daughter, Laura – given the chance to win a million pounds, and asked questions by comedian …
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Holding – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Graham Norton drama
Holding centres around cop Sgt PJ Collins (Conleth Hill), who’s fed up of no real crimes taking place, such as when Mrs Doyle… sorry, Eileen O’Driscoll (Pauline McLynn), is annoyed that the house opposite her …
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