A Spy Among Friends is the first drama to premiere on ITV’s new streaming channel, ITVX, which replaces the old ITV Hub, but the new name reminds me of TVX, aka Television X, and you …
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Hollington Drive – The DVDfever Review – Anna Maxwell Martin – ITV drama
Hollington Drive centres around a very well-to-do family – the parents being Theresa (Anna Maxwell Martin) and Fraser (Rhashan Stone) – in a big, posh house, although if I had a ‘back door’ with massive …
Continue readingThe Kemps: All True – The DVDfever Review – Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp
The Kemps: All True is a spoof documentary with Spandau Ballet brothers Martin Kemp and Gary Kemp, in the same vein as BBC2’s Brian Pern, with Simon Day – who also pops up here, because …
Continue readingCode 404 – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Graham, Daniel Mays
Code 404 is the error you get on the internet when you can’t find a page that has been deleted. In this new Sky One comedy – which features THREE actors in the lead who’ve …
Continue readingGood Omens Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant, Michael Sheen
Good Omens poses the opener that you might’ve thought that the universe began 14 billion years ago, and the Earth, 4.6bn years ago, but this series confirms that it all began on Sunday 21st October …
Continue readingMother’s Day – The DVDfever Review – Warrington bomb BBC drama
Mother’s Day relives the harrowing day on Saturday, March 20th 1993, the day before Mother’s Day, and the day the IRA bombed Warrington, claiming the lives of young 12-year-old Tim Parry and 3-year-old Johnathan Ball. …
Continue readingMotherland – The DVDfever Review – BBC Sitcom pilot
Motherland is a sitcom pilot centred around middle-class motherhood. Personally, I’ve never sired a child and don’t intend to, so I won’t experience fatherhood, let alone motherhood, and I consider myself working class and not …
Continue readingReg (Tim Roth BBC drama) – The DVDfever Review
Reg Keys is a name I hadn’t heard before, but I was fully aware that we were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Portrayed by Tim Roth, his son, Tom (Zac Fox), was …
Continue readingBrian Pern: The Complete Series 1-3 on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Brian Pern is the prog-rock brainchild of Rhys Thomas OBE and The Fast Show‘s Simon Day, and this boxset takes in all three series – The Life of Rock, A Life in Rock and 45 …
Continue readingMidwinter of the Spirit Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Midwinter of the Spirit did something that I don’t think I’ve ever seen in any other TV drama ever made – they finally gave a leading role to the brilliant Anna Maxwell Martin! The supernatural …
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