Nightsleeper initially looks a bit like Apple TV’s Hijack, but on a plane. That series was pretty daft and I parachuted out after a couple of episodes. Can this one improve upon that? The Ipcress …
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Still Up – The DVDfever Review – Apple TV+ – Antonia Thomas, Craig Roberts
Still Up centres around a man and a woman who regularly chat on the phone, even though we’re not told how their friendship came about, but we do know that they both suffer from insomnia, …
Continue readingThe Thief His Wife and the Canoe – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Eddie Marsan
The Thief His Wife and the Canoe does rather seem an odd situation to make a TV series out of, but then I remember it happening at the time, and rather than feel like a …
Continue readingVigil – The DVDfever Review – Martin Compston, Suranne Jones
Vigil begins with a trawler boat ending up in a pickle, catching onto something and being dragged underwater. Those on the submarine have a chance to do something about rescuing the men, with DCI Steve …
Continue readingThe One – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Hannah Ware, Zoë Tapper
The One is something we all want to find, and in this new drama set, oddly “five minutes in the future”, sees geneticist Rebecca (Hannah Ware – Hitman: Agent 47) having cracked it. Her company’s …
Continue readingCare – The DVDfever Review – Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman
Care is a new Jimmy McGovern drama which, for me, has come at a depressingly poignant time. We know that strokes can hit someone – mostly in their later years, but sometimes also in a …
Continue readingThe Tsuranga Conundrum – Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
The Tsuranga Conundrum is the fifth episode of Doctor Who Series 11, and the Scooby Doo gang are at Sockport tip looking for something when, instead, they find they’re on a sonic mine and it’s …
Continue readingTrust Me Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Trust Me stars Jodie Whittaker as a nurse posing as a doctor. Some time next year, she’ll be posing as a doctor of a different kind since she will be The Doctor in the next …
Continue readingComedy Feeds on BBC iPlayer – The DVDfever Review
Comedy Feeds is the series of pilots, commissioned by BBC3, and which normally get a late night airing on TV as they have done before, but this year, they’re Internet-only and can be viewed on …
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