Belgravia is a sort-of sequel/follow-up to Downton Abbey, again from writer Julian Fellowes, and it’s a time of Napoleon, and women wearing bonnet hats, and Philip Glenister walking in like an early Gene Hunt from …
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Chernobyl: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Drama of the Year! – Out now on Blu-ray!
Chernobyl is a new Sky Atlantic drama which focuses on the tragedy when the Chernobyl nuclear reactor went into meltdown following the explosion of the core inside, and turned the working town of Pripyat into …
Continue readingHang Ups Series 1 – The DVDfever Review – Stephen Mangan
Hang Ups is, effectively, another of those ‘one room’ comedies, this one the house of Richard Pitt (Stephen Mangan), a therapist whose business collapsed, so today is Day One of working from home (so, a …
Continue readingPhilip K Dick’s Electric Dreams Episode 1 – The Hood Maker – The DVDfever Review
Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams begins the new 10-part series with The Hood Maker, airing on Channel 4 in the UK and Amazon in the US, and feels like their alternative to Charlie Brooker’s Black …
Continue readingTheir Finest on Blu-ray – The DVDfever Review
Their Finest – based on the novel, Their Finest Hour And A Half – in case you wondered why the title didn’t make a huge heap of sense and was wildly ambiguous – centres around …
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 readingNo Offence Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
No Offence is the latest Paul Abbott drama to come to Channel 4 in a blaze of publicity, with the same trailer being shown about 954 times in the past few weeks, or so it …
Continue readingThe Game Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Game is a new thiller TV series which I was initially in two minds about, after reading about it and seeing the trailer and a clip, as it looked very similar to the 2011 …
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