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Posted: April 25th, 2008.
PICK OF THE DAY ..fabulous and absurd in equal measure Amazing stuff ***** Heat
Rock Rivals, the glossy and bitchy television series based on a TV talent show starring Michelle Collins (Dr Who,Two Thousand Acres of Sky, Eastenders) and Sean Gallagher (Coronation Street, New Street Law) as the warring married judgeswill burst its way onto DVD on 28 April 2008 from Universal Pictures.
Mirroring the unique interactive nature of the television series, which will allow viewers to vote for the final winningcontestant, the 3-disc Rock Rivals DVD features 9 episodes and will include two alternate endings enabling the viewer todecide on their very own winner, plus a host of great extras including Making the Music, The Producers Tale, Choosing theWinner, The Actors Tale, The Contestants Tale, and My Favourite Scene.
PICK OF THE DAY: Must-see TV. This show within a show which blends drama and reality TV – Mail on Sunday Live Magazine
The series, which has the emotional charge of X Factor meets Footballers Wives, sees Karina (Michelle Collins) and Mal Faith(Sean Gallagher) go to war as the bickering judges on the phenomenally successful television series Rock Rivals. WhenMals affair with an assistant becomes public knowledge, all hell breaks loose and their marriage spectacularly and verypublicly implodes. Karina and Mals tangled web is made even more complicated by their various assistants Pete Shepherd(James Anderson) who works with Mal as an A&R man and Associate Producer, Sundae Gorgeous (Nicola Hughes) who is thecontestants vocal coach, and Jinx Jones (Sophia Dawnay) who is hired by Mal as an executive assistant but is moreobsessed with pursuing Mal and destroying his marriage.
Footballers Wives meets The X Factor plus Michelle Collins = top telly times a million ***** More
Rock Rivals not only follows the Faiths as their vicious divorce descends into all out war, but charts the highs and lowsof the contestants involved. With a strong supporting cast of young actors playing the contestants Sol Heras as LukeEllis, Holly Quin-Ankrah as Bethany Hopkins, Sammy Glenn as Dana Bigglesworth, Lisa Dwan as Angel Islington, Helen Modern asSasha Reed, Marcus O Donovan as Jez Willard and Robert Sheehan, Siva Kaneswaran, Kumar Kaneswaran and Shane McDaid as thegroup Fade Up, Rock Rivals also stars Alison Newman as Lynette Hopkins, the pushy mum, Adam Leese as Felix McGowan, thestalker, Gary Cooke as Vernon Fentor as the third judge.
PICK OF THE DAY . glossy drama – The Independent
Rock Rivals is produced by Shed Productions and is executive produced by Brian Park (Footballers Wives, Bad Girls),produced by Emma Turner (New Tricks, Holby City) and is directed by Syd McCartney (New Tricks, Jane Hall), Farren Blackburn(Waterloo Road, Doctors, Ian Bevitt (The Chase, The Royal) and James Erskine (Robin Hood, Torchwood)
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The DVD is released on April 28th for £24.99, it runs for 6hrs 11mins across 8 episodes and is currently on Amazon.co.uk at the above link for £15.98.
Vote and comment on this DVD: News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2008.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.