Scoop takes in the famous 2019 BBC Newsnight interview with perverted Prince Andrew, who conned his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, into conning all of us into paying £12m to the woman he abused as a …
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Stonehouse – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Keeley Hawes, Matthew Macfadyen
Stonehouse… John Stonehouse… a new ITV* drama about a Labour MP who faked his own death. Now, if it was every Tory MP, today, who jumped into the sea for real, no-one would mourn them. …
Continue readingCrossfire – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Keeley Hawes holiday drama
Crossfire opens with the sound of gunshots sounding outside on the plaza while Jo (Keeley Hawes) is in her bedroom, sounding like the start of American Assassin – but showing nothing due to the limited …
Continue readingThe Midwich Cuckoos – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Keeley Hawes
The Midwich Cuckoos is an adaptation of the John Wyndham novel, and a situation where I never saw any other version which has gone before (and I haven’t read a novel since I left school). …
Continue readingTo 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 …
Continue readingIt’s A Sin – The DVDfever Review – Russell T Davies – Channel 4 drama
It’s A Sin is the first TV drama from Russell T Davies since 2019’s Years and Years, which was mostly good, but occasionally slipped a bit. Davies also wrote some earlier powerful gay dramas in …
Continue readingFinding 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 …
Continue readingRebecca – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Lily James, Armie Hammer
Rebecca is a new version of the 1940s Hitchcock movie (okay, technically, the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel), and I wouldn’t have thought of Ben Wheatley as someone making a remake of such a film, …
Continue readingHonour – The DVDfever Review – Keeley Hawes – ITV drama
Honour is a two-part ITV drama which is so-called because it deals with the potential honour killing of 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod, the case led by DCI Caroline Goode (Keeley Hawes – Bodyguard). At the start, …
Continue readingYear Of The Rabbit Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Matt Berry
Year Of The Rabbit gives us Matt Berry as Matt Berry, this time in the Victorian era as Detective Inspector Rabbitt, who’s quickly annoyed when being given a cop partner for the first time, in …
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