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The Day Of The Jackal (2024) is a slightly more modern take on the Frederick Forsyth novel, although while this TV series version often does have a stylish look to it as if it was …
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Treason – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Charlie Cox, Olga Kurylenko
Treason is a new Netflix five-part drama where deputy head of MI6, Adam Laurence (Charlie Cox – King Of Thieves), is giving a talk to his son Callum’s school about working for the service, when …
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The Suspect – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Aidan Turner
The Suspect is a strange series for 2022… it’s a 5-part series that you’d normally expect to be spread over five consecutive nights, but instead, ITV are putting it out weekly, AND only each part …
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Vigil – The DVDfever Review – Martin Compston, Suranne Jones
Vigil begins with a trawler boat ending up in a pickle, catching onto something and being dragged underwater. Those on the submarine have a chance to do something about rescuing the men, with DCI Steve …
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Life (2020) – The DVDfever Review – Alison Steadman, Peter Davison
Life 2020 is… called Life, but in the world of website SEO, too many titles with the same name doesn’t help, and there are so many films and TV series called this. Can’t they think …
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Belgravia – The DVDfever Review – Downton Abbey ‘sequel’ drama
Belgravia is a sort-of sequel/follow-up to Downton Abbey, again from writer Julian Fellowes, and it’s a time of Napoleon, and women wearing bonnet hats, and Philip Glenister walking in like an early Gene Hunt from …
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Home From Home Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Johnny Vegas
Home From Home started life as one of BBC2’s rather poor 2016 pilots, with Johnny Vegas in the lead role as Neil Hackett, father of a family who up sticks and move to the Lake …
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King Charles III – The DVDfever Review – A perfect epitaph to Tim Pigott-Smith
King Charles III – the title made me think “What? Another labourious period drama? …Oh, hang on, we’ve never had a third King Charles”. And then the penny dropped. Mike Bartlett has adapted his own …
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Doctor Foster Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Doctor Foster looked predictable from the stylish trailer where Paloma Faith’s garish cover of Never Tear Us Apart wailed away in the background. And wouldn’t you know it – the first episode played out 100% …
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Coalition – The DVDfever Review
Coalition is a Channel 4 drama based on the week following the 2010 UK general election, as Labour came to the end of a chequered 13-year term in government, with the Tories snapping at their …
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