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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 …
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Category: TV Series
Lingo – 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 …
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The 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”, …
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Death 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 …
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Black 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 …
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Blankety 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 …
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Vicar 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 …
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Raised 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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Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel – The DVDfever Review – BBC gameshow
Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel is a new gameshow which seeks to answer the question: Why is Michael McIntyre popular? Well, maybe it won’t do that, but his wheel takes social distancing to a whole new …
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Winning Combination – The DVDfever Review – Omid Djalili – ITV Gameshow
Winning Combination is a new ITV gameshow from the makers of The Chase, so I’d be hoping for something good and long-lasting, but then they also brought us Bradley Walsh’s Cash Trapped. Hosted by Omid …
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