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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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Einstein and the Bomb – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Aidan McArdle
Einstein and the Bomb centres around Albert Einstein (obvs), portrayed by Aidan McArdle (Ridley), where he’s a professor at the University of Princeton, New Jersey in 1955, reflecting on Oppenheimer’s bomb tests, as shown in …
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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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Shamed – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 drama
Shamed is a one-off “What’s going on?” drama, where one minute, we see Nathan (Nick Blood, above) happy with fiancee Julia (Tanya Fear), and the next, he’s locked up in a small, red room; waking …
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New Blood Case 2 Series 1 (Episodes 4-5) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood Case 2 centres around the mysterious death on a building site where, to us viewers there’s no mystery – we know what happened from the start, but the cops have to figure it …
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New Blood Series 1 Case 1 (Episodes 1-3) – The DVDfever Review
New Blood. Some old ideas. But it all balances out as a show worth watching. Mark Strepan (as Serious Fraud Officer Stefan Kowolski) and Ben Tavassoli (as pavement-plodder-donut-scoffer-turned-budding detective Rash Sayyad) are new to these …
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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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