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Lucky Day Lucky Day is the fourth episode of Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. It opens with a CGI New Year’s Eve, and Not-My-Doctor picking up someone’s 50p off the ground… …
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Tag: Ruth Madeley
My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of NIGHTSLEEPER on BBC1!
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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The Giggle – Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Part 3 – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant
The Giggle concludes the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary trilogy of episodes, after the godawful The Star Beast, and the baddie-less Wild Blue Yonder, which couldn’t have shouted “filler” any louder than it did. This time …
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The Star Beast – Doctor Who 60th Anniversary – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant, Catherine Tate
The Star Beast sees Russell T Davies return to writing Doctor Who, as if he didn’t destroy it enough last time, trying to throw in diversity amongst the cast, over writing a coherent script. Last …
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The Long Shadow – The DVDfever Review – ITV drama – Daniel Mays, Toby Jones
The Long Shadow looks at the case regarding the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, in the ’70s. I was only a child at the time, but I still remember it being in the news. The opener …
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Then Barbara Met Alan – The DVDfever Review – BBC – Ruth Madeley
Then Barbara Met Alan centres around two activists – comedian Barbara Lisicki (Ruth Madeley) and singer-songwriter Alan Holdsworth (Arthur Hughes), who meet up a gig where she’s doing stand-up, and he’s performing in a band, …
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The Accident – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Lancashire
The Accident begins with an unexpected – but amusing – scene as Polly Bevan (Sarah Lancashire – Kiri) finds 15-year-old daughter Leona (Jade Croot) in bed with a lad who’s far too old for her, …
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Years And Years: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Russell T Davies
Years And Years is a new drama from Russell T Davies, whose work has had a chequered past with me, in that I really enjoyed some, but didn’t like others. This starts off as a …
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The Level Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – ITV Drama
The Level shows that every cop has got a snout or three, who’ll give them the information they require when they need a tip-off, but Nancy Devlin’s (Karla Crome) bitten off more than she can …
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BAFTA 2016 Television nominations have been announced, and the awards will be broadcast on BBC1 on May 8th. Best Actor: Ben Whishaw, London Spy Idris Elba, Luther Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall Stephen Graham, This is …
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