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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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The Lovers – The DVDfever Review – Sky Atlantic – Johnny Flynn, Roisin Gallagher
The Lovers centres around two leads who… might become lovers. Seamus (Johnny Flynn – The Dig) works in TV, loves himself and has been given a weekly Sunday politics show, but… instead of London, he’ll …
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The Power of Parker – The DVDfever Review – BBC comedy – Conleth Hill, Sian Gibson
The Power of Parker is set in Stockport, 1990, beginning with one of titular character’s terrible-looking TVs adverts for his electrical store, to mimic those of the era. As things begin, thankfully, it’s only a …
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Holding – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Graham Norton drama
Holding centres around cop Sgt PJ Collins (Conleth Hill), who’s fed up of no real crimes taking place, such as when Mrs Doyle… sorry, Eileen O’Driscoll (Pauline McLynn), is annoyed that the house opposite her …
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To Olivia – The DVDfever Review – Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes
To Olivia is promoted as “The true story of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal“, yet only covers a couple of years in their life, so won’t be the whole story. It begins in 1962, with …
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Vienna Blood – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama
Vienna Blood uses the age-old trope of two individuals having to work together, even though they clearly don’t get on, so it’s a ‘marriage’ of necessity. However, on the plus side, it’s set in 1906, …
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Official Secrets – Trailer 1 – Keira Knightley
Official Secrets shows Keira Knightley works for the government but she may or may not have leaked an email, and so she may or may not be in big trub, and if she is, then …
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Hang Ups Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Mangan
Hang Ups is, effectively, another of those ‘one room’ comedies, this one the house of Richard Pitt (Stephen Mangan), a therapist whose business collapsed, so today is Day One of working from home (so, a …
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Dave Allen at Peace – The DVDfever Review – Aiden Gillen drama
Dave Allen at Peace is a new hour-long drama for the Catholic comedian, born David Edward John Archer Cullen Tynan O’Mahony, who I first came across when he was well into his hey-day. Just as …
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The Truth Commissioner – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Roger Allam
The Truth Commissioner stars The Thick Of It‘s Roger Allam as Henry Stanfield, a man whose job has effectively robbed him of his family life by dominating his time, and now he’s in Belfast dealing …
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