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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Showtrial – The DVDfever Review – Celine Buckens – BBC drama
Showtrial is another of those dramas billed as coming from the makers of Line of Duty – or, at least, the production company in this case. Vigil was the same. Thanks sank like a stone …
Continue readingBloodlands – The DVDfever Review – James Nesbitt – BBC drama
Bloodlands begins with a 4×4 vehicle belonging to a Pat Keenan (Peter Ballance), being pulled out of the sea, while at the same time, a man has phoned the police advisng they’ve also kidnapped him, …
Continue readingThe Durrells Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Durrells is a new six-part ITV drama based on Gerald Durrell‘s Corfu Trilogy, mixing light family-friendly drama with a hint of comedy, with Keeley Hawes‘ matriarch Louisa, frustrated at her lot. She’s a widow …
Continue readingCritical Series 1 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Critical Series 1 Episode 2 and aother day, another near-death inside the impossibly clean hospital, where no-one smokes outside in the No Smoking area – unlike any other hospital I’ve been in… Today’s patient is …
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Critical is the first new series from former doctor Jed Mecurio since Line of Duty, which saw its second series air on BBC2 in March last year, but he’s also responsible for the wonderful Cardiac …
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