Piglets is a new ITV sitcom and… yes, another ITV sitcom… I know, but try and bear with me. The show has garnered some criticism for being a play on ‘pigs’, the derogatory word for …
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The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin – Official Trailer – Apple TV+
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is a forthcoming comedy series from Apple TV+, starring Noel Fielding. Synopsis: In The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, Dick Turpin (Noel Fielding) sets out on a …
Continue readingSignificant Other (2023) – The DVDfever Review – ITV – Katherine Parkinson
Significant Other (2023) begins very ‘A Man Called Ove‘ (also A Man Called Otto), because lead male character Sam (Youssef Kerkour – Home) is trying to kill himself, but gets interrupted in the process… albeit, …
Continue readingThe School of Good and Evil – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Michelle Yeoh
The School for Good and Evil sees two brothers – Rafal and Rhian (both played by Kit Young) – having shared power peacefully for eons, but things seldom stay as they are… For best friends …
Continue readingQueens of Mystery – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Olivia Vinall
Queens of Mystery centres around Matilda “Mattie” Stone (Olivia Vinall), whose mother, Eleanor, disappeared when she was 3 years old, leaving her to stay with a succession of aunts elsewhere, including one who runs a …
Continue readingThe Trouble With Maggie Cole – The DVDfever Review – Dawn French
The Trouble with Maggie Cole is a new drama starring Dawn French in the title role, set in the sleepy coastal town of Thurlbury, which starts off looking like Sunday evening nonsense somehow reserved for …
Continue readingFriday Night Dinner Series 4 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
Friday Night Dinner returns for a fourth series with no sign of slowing down with Robert Popper’s quickfire rate of gags. Around this point, you’d expect the average sitcom to have long spent its best, …
Continue readingUpstart Crow Episode 1: Star Crossed Lovers – The DVDfever Review
Upstart Crow is Ben Elton and David Mitchell‘s contribution to the BBC’s 400th ‘dead Shakespeare’ month-long love-in and, following, Peep Show, I didn’t think the latter could put a foot wrong… But then I heard …
Continue readingThe World’s End on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
The World’s End saw something that rang true about Simon Pegg‘s character, Gary King, in the last of The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy. And that is that we’re witness to a man who finished school …
Continue readingThe World’s End – The DVDfever Cinema Review
There’s something that rang true about Simon Pegg’s character, Gary King, in the last of the Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. And that is that we’re witness to a man who finished school in June …
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