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The Miracle Club begins in Dublin, 1967, where Chrissie Ahearn (Laura Linney – Ozark) is attending her mother, Maureen’s, funeral, even though she’s been away from the area for 40 years, having left under rather …
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DI Ray – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Parminder Nagra
DI Ray, not DI Voodoo Ray, sadly… that would be a cool prime-time drama. Portrayed by Parminder Nagra, she gets a shock when she witnesses a strange man running about with a knife, and not …
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The Teacher – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Sheridan Smith
The Teacher is the role for Sheridan Smith, who literally has to be in everything these days. At the start of January, she was in BBC1’s Four Lives, and then next week, she’s in ITV’s …
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Rules of the Game – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Maxine Peake
Rules of the Game is a new four-part drama set at Fly, a sportswear company, and run by Sam Thompson (Maxine Peake – Anne), who we first see sat in the back of an ambulance, …
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Intergalactic – The DVDfever Review – Savannah Steyn, Craig Parkinson
Intergalactic is a new sci-fi drama set in the year 2143, in Commonworld, a futuristic city built next to a destroyed London. Cop Ash Harper (Savannah Steyn) is planning to move to Shanghai, but as …
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Finding Alice – The DVDfever Review – Keeley Hawes – ITV drama
Finding Alice sees the titular character, played by Keeley Hawes (Honour), having moved into a house which was designed by her husband, Harry (Jason Merrells). Sadly, Harry has since passed away following a fall. No-one …
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Cheat: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Katherine Kelly
Cheat begins with University lecturer Dr Leah Dale (Katherine Kelly – Doctor Who spin-off Class) and final year student Rose (Molly Windsor – Three Girls) on opposite sites of a prison cell window, before we …
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Bancroft Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Parish ITV drama
Bancroft… Anne Bancroft… no, that’s The Graduate. This, however, begins in 1990, and the song “Killer“, by Adamski and Seal. Of course, anyone with a brain knows that 1990 was time for the Guru, but …
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From Darkness Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
From Darkness should’ve begun with former cop Claire Church (Anne-Marie Duff) re-enacting Al Pacino from The Godfather Part III bemoaning, “Just when I think I’m *out*, they pull me back *in*!” She quit the police …
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Midwinter 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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