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The Dig begins in 1938, in Suffolk, where Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan, Collateral) had learned there were approximately 18 ancient burial mounds on the Sutton Hoo estate, near to her home, so she summons M …
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Back Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Back Series 2 is here, and it’s been a while since series 1 aired, but at the time, Andrew (Robert Webb) had ingratiated himself with everyone at the John Barleycorn pub, and pushing Stephen’s (David …
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Dial M for Middlesbrough – The DVDfever Review – Johnny Vegas
Dial M for Middlesbrough is a new Gold film which has a great cast, even including Jason Donovan! I missed the first two films in the Draper Tours series, Murder on the Blackpool Express and …
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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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Famalam – The DVDfever Review – BBC2 Comedy pilot
Famalam is a new one-off pilot sketch show which – with a cast made up solely from black comedians – instantly picks on a lame trope of ‘reverse racism’, where a black cast of space …
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Carnage: Swallowing The Past – The DVDfever Review – Simon Amstell – BBC iPlayer Exclusive
Carnage: Swallowing The Past is set in 2067, a time when everyone in the world when everyone is vegan. Comedian Simon Amstell, who made a success on his brief presenting of Never Mind The Buzzcocks …
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Critical 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 Series 1 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
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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