The Stand Up Sketch Show looked like a box-ticking exercise from the trailer – he’s got a beard, she’s got a silly name (London?) But how will it work in reality? Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, …
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Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family: Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family shows that if you going to make a documentary, these days, it HAS to have the name of the presenter included, as if viewers are so thick that they not …
Continue readingBrexit: The Uncivil War – The DVDfever Review – Benedict Cumberbatch
Brexit: The Uncivil War centres around one man I hadn’t thought too much about – Dominic Cummings (Benedict Cumberbatch – yep, there’s a double-dose of Cum this time!), campaign director for Vote Leave, one of …
Continue readingCleaning Up – The DVDfever Review – Sheridan Smith
Cleaning Up sees ITV kicking off the new drama year with the reliable Sheridan Smith as Sam, a single parter with a grumpy ex. She’s stuck in a horrible cleaning job with an over-demanding boss, …
Continue readingThe Greatest Dancer – The DVDfever Review – Cheryl Cole
The Greatest Dancer is best known for being a Chic song, masterminded by the great Nile Rodgers… okay, it’s “He’s the Greatest Dancer”, but anyway. We’re told this is an audition and a studio like …
Continue readingLuther Series 5: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Idris Elba
Luther Season 5‘s arrival means the man with the grey trench coat is back. Women will love this, since it’s only a handful of minutes before Idris Elba is taking his shirt off in the …
Continue readingResolution – Doctor Who 2019 New Year Special – The DVDfever Review
Resolution is the only Doctor Who episode we’ll get in 2019, since there’s no new series coming until 2020, thanks to the lazy, new head honcho, Chris Chibnall, which is why there’s no ‘Next time’ …
Continue readingLes Misérables: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – 2019 BBC drama
Les Misérables begins in June 1815, the day after the battle of Waterloo, and there are heaps of dead bodies around. The intro text tells us that after twenty years of war, France is defeated; …
Continue readingThe ABC Murders: The Complete Series (2018) – The DVDfever Review – Agatha Christie BBC drama
The ABC Murders is the latest Agatha Christie tale to be told on BBC1, and after Ordeal By Innocence was delayed from last Christmas, and bumped to April this year, when it was told in …
Continue readingClick And Collect – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Merchant
Click And Collect is to TV in 2018 what Jingle All The Way was to films in 1996, except only one will be watched regularly at Christmas time… Instead of Arnie tracking down the last …
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