The Magic Faraway Tree is an Enid Blyton novel, obviously updated a bit for the big screen, given how Claire Foy (H Is For Hawk), as Polly Thompson, is a “fridge designer”, yet stupidly quits …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? on BBC1!
Can You Keep A Secret? Can I? Well, you might want to with this new series that attempts to put a light spin on a ‘Canoe Man‘-type story, and fails miserably. Debbie Fendon’s (Dawn French …
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Piglets – The DVDfever Review – ITV sitcom – Mark Heap, Sarah Parish
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 …
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Significant 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, …
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The 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 …
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Queens 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 …
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The 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 …
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Friday 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, …
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Upstart 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 …
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