Hunting Alice Bell is a new Channel 4 drama, which opens with a news item from Sept 2012, about the titular character having been jailed for 18 months for falsifying hospital records, thus giving an …
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Plodding On – Inside No.9 Series 9 Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
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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Paraskevidekatriaphobia – Inside No.9 Series 8 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the third episode of Inside No.9 Series 8. The word means to have a fear of Friday 13th. For me, that date is the only time things DO go right for me! Dom …
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Desperate Measures – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Amanda Abbington
Desperate Measures sees bank clerk Rowan (Amanda Abbingdon) taking… yes, desperate measures, when push comes to shove in her circumstances. There’s been a robbery at her bank, and she’s being questioned. The cops think it …
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The Family Pile – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Amanda Abbington
The Family Pile is a new ITV sitcom, and ITV sitcoms are always amazing, right? Erm… The happiness begins with the fact that this is centred around four bereaved sisters who have to sell the …
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Wolfe – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Babou Ceesay
Wolfe is a new drama, with a hint of dark humour, based around crime scene investigator and professor (where does he get the time for two demanding jobs?) Wolfe (Babou Ceesay – Free Fire), and …
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Unsaid Stories – The DVDfever Review – Nicholas Pinnock, Amanda Abbington
Unsaid Stories is a new four-part series of 15-minute short dramas, similar to May’s Isolation Stories. Whereas they centred around… well, everyone having to isolate, this series is based around the Black Lives Matter movement. …
Continue readingCrooked House – Trailer 1 – Glenn Close
Crooked House is based on the novel by Agatha Christie, in which private detective Charles Hayward (Max Irons) is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia (Stefanie Martini), his …
Continue readingSherlock: The Abominable Bride gets a 15-certificate on DVD
The Abominable Bride is the first new episode of BBC1’s Sherlock since series 3 ended in mid-January 2014, and the BBFC have, today, awarded the episode a 15-certificate ahead of its DVD release on January …
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Cuffs Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Cuffs is, effectively, the BBC’s answer to the long-since-defunct The Bill. As it begins, PC Ryan Draper (Ashley Walters) is teamed up with rookie PC Jake Vickers (Jacob Ifan), and he has just 21 Seconds …
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