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Plodding On is the sixth and final episode of Inside No.9 Series 9, and the last EVER episode! Before this aired, I was hoping we’d finally get the Robin Askwith bus conductor episode which they …
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Tag: Alison Steadman
Rules of the Game – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Maxine Peake
Rules of the Game is a new four-part drama set at Fly, a sportswear company, and run by Sam Thompson (Maxine Peake – Anne), who we first see sat in the back of an ambulance, …
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Pandemonium – 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 …
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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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Gavin And Stacey Christmas Special 2019 – The DVDfever Review
Gavin And Stacey Christmas Special 2019 is here and they’re still going back and forth to Wales when they would’ve long since moved in at one place either way. Or maybe they did and I …
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Care – The DVDfever Review – Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman
Care is a new Jimmy McGovern drama which, for me, has come at a depressingly poignant time. We know that strokes can hit someone – mostly in their later years, but sometimes also in a …
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Butterfly: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Anna Friel
Butterfly is based around Max (Callum Booth-Ford), an eleven-year-old boy, who realises he’s not straight, nor gay, but transgender, choosing to dress up as a girl at home. This certainly makes for an interesting and …
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Hold The Sunset Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – John Cleese
Hold The Sunset is every travesty I expected, and is an easy wicket for its leads, Alison Steadman, John Cleese and Jason Watkins. Steadman plays Edith, a retired widow who finds recycling difficult – just …
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Static – Comedy Playhouse 2017 – The DVDfever Review
Static is the final of three Comedy Playhouse sitcoms and gets off to a bad start as one of the sitcoms where the ‘star’ can’t think of a name for his character, hence comedian Rob …
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Stormy Monday Special Edition on Blu-ray and DVD combo – The DVDfever Review
Stormy Monday takes place during America Week in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, so events will be carried out over more than the one day that the name might imply. (Yes, it’s title of the 1948 song from T-Bone …
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