Isolation Stories looks like the kind of drama we could be getting used to for the forseeable future, and it’s also been touted that the BBC’s Talking Heads series, originally devised by Alan Bennett, could …
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I Am Nicola – The DVDfever Review – Vicky McClure
I Am Nicola centres around Nicola (Vicky McClure – Line of Duty), who’s very unsatisfied with her lot in life because, as a hairdresser, everyone else’s life sounds far more interesting than her’s, such as …
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Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool is set in the Scouse city in 1981, and it wasn’t until after I saw this that I discovered it was based on a true story. I hadn’t heard …
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Babs – BBC Barbara Windsor drama – The DVDfever Review
Babs is a very hit and miss one-off drama about the life of British national treasure Barbara Windsor, who’s played by not one, not two, but a total of four actresses, plus the lady herself. …
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The Good Karma Hospital Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Good Karma Hospital is essentially Doc Hollywood meets Casualty, as fish-out-of-water-cum-aspiring-hopeful junior doctor Ruby Walker (Game Of Thrones‘ Amrita Acharia) goes on a passage to India to work in a big fancy hospital that …
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Shut Up And Dance – Black Mirror Series 3 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Shut Up and Dance is the third episode in this third series of Black Mirror, and the best of the new run so far. After a mysterious car park scene, the bulk of the story …
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Cold Feet Series 6 Episode 1 (2016) – The DVDfever Review
Cold Feet returning… The more I heard about this – with the cast repeatedly telling us, here and there, that there is no way that Helen Baxendale would return as a ghost – made me …
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Undercover – The DVDfever Review – Adrian Lester, Sophie Okonedo
Undercover begins centred around Maya (Sophie Okonedo), a laywer who’s spent the last 20 years campaigning for Rudy Jones (Dennis Haysbert), a man imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. However, he’s jailed in …
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Line Of Duty Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Line Of Duty Series 3 begins with Operation Damson, and a dawn raid on a man who is expected to be armed and extremely dangerous, possibly on his way to carry out a gangland execution. …
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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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