Traces opens with Emma Hedges’ (Molly Windsor – Cheat) mother having been murdered and she bursts into Professor Sarah Gordon’s (Laura Fraser) office, wanting to share her thoughts on how to solve it… Then flashback …
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Equinox – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Danica Curcic
Equinox is a new Danish drama on Netflix which starts in 1999, where and a large group of young male and female graduates head off on a party bus and disappear… That said, the bus …
Continue readingPandemonium – The DVDfever Review – Alison Steadman
Pandemonium is a one-off sitcom episode in a lockdown setting… and no doubt, if it’s a hit, it’ll return for a full series. However, as the family is filmed, from January 2020 onwards, beginning with …
Continue readingLingo – The DVDfever Review – Adil Ray – ITV Gameshow
Lingo is a new ITV quiz show which premieres on New Year’s Day, and then moves to the Monday 3pm slot from the week after, displacing the current Tenable repeats. Talking of which, after seeing …
Continue readingThe Great – The DVDfever Review – Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult
The Great… what? The Great Soprendo? No, it’s Catherine The Great, but they couldn’t call it that because of the 2019 drama with Helen Mirren. Beginning in 1761 and billed as “an occasionally true story”, …
Continue readingDeath To 2020 – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Samuel L Jackson
Death To 2020 is less a new Black Mirror-style special for Netflix, and more akin to a Screenwipe special, but on a much larger budget than you’d get from the BBC. As such, those playing …
Continue readingBlack Narcissus – The DVDfever Review – Gemma Arterton – BBC drama
Black Narcissus is a new take on the 1947 movie, and novel by Rumer Godden and broadcasts over three nights on BBC1 this Christmas. I’ve never seen that film, nor read the book, but reading …
Continue readingBlankety Blank 2020 Christmas Special – The DVDfever Review – Bradley Walsh
Blankety Blank 2020 Christmas Special revives the gameshow which, prior to this, was only ever good in its original form with Terry Wogan, from 1979-1983, before Les Dawson took over the year after, somehow making …
Continue readingVicar Of Dibley in Lockdown (& does Black Lives Matter) – The DVDfever Review
Vicar Of Dibley in Lockdown is a three-parter of ten-minute short segments that’ll piggy back over repeats of other episodes when broadcast. I never *got* the original series when it aired, but this was mercifully …
Continue readingRaised By Wolves – The DVDfever Review – Amanda Collin – HBO / Sky Atlantic
Raised By Wolves is not a new version of the Channel 4 sitcom from shout-a-lot Caitlin Moron, but it’s what happens when two android siblings arrive on planet Kepler-22b after Earth is long since gone …
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