Curfew takes place in an alternate, dystopian world where all men are under curfew from 7pm to 7am daily, so women can trip the light fandango together, lording it up in front of us while …
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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 …
Continue readingGeek Girl – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Emily Carey
Geek Girl centres around Harriet Manners (Emily Carey – Tomb Raider 2018), who proves that the geek shall inherit the Earth. Unlike her best friend Natalie (Rochelle Harrington), she doesn’t want to be a model …
Continue readingStay Close – The DVDfever Review – Netflix – Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt
Stay Close comes from Harlan Coben, who also brought us 2020’s The Stranger, an engaging, but occasionally daft, drama. However, I loved that it was set in my home town of Stockport. The basic premise …
Continue readingLast Night Of The Proms – Inside No.9 Series 6 Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
Last Night of the Proms is the sixth and final episode of Inside No.9 Series 6. This episode wasn’t available for preview, and I’ve no idea why, but then the episode from Series 5 with …
Continue readingThe Cockfields: The Complete Series – The DVDfever Review – Joe Wilkinson
The Cockfields are a family headed by Sue (Sue Johnston) and Ray (Bobby Ball), respectively mother and stepfather to Simon (Joe Wilkinson, who also co-writes). The pair live on the Isle of Wight where Simon’s …
Continue readingBancroft Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Parish ITV drama
Bancroft… Anne Bancroft… no, that’s The Graduate. This, however, begins in 1990, and the song “Killer“, by Adamski and Seal. Of course, anyone with a brain knows that 1990 was time for the Guru, but …
Continue readingW1A Series 3 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
W1A enters its third series, so is doing brilliantly well, given that it was spawned from the two-series Twenty Twelve, which did for the London Olympics what The Thick Of It did for politics. That …
Continue readingBroadchurch Series 3 – The DVDfever Review – David Tennant
Broadchurch returns for a third and, apparently final, series and… I have to say that I’ve never seen this show before. Heard good things about series 1. Bad things about series 2. And that there’s …
Continue readingW1A Series 2 Trailer – BBC Two – Hugh Bonneville comedy
W1A Series 2 returns to BBC2 next week and as the recent teaser confirms, this new series will DEFINITELY be on BBC2, even if PR guru Siobhan Sharpe Jessica Hynes isn’t quite sure. W1A is …
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