Generation Z opens with an army truck driving down a tight country lane before it flips over after a tyre blows, leading to its cannister splitting open, causing a spillage that’s having an unwanted effect, …
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Truelove – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Lindsay Duncan, Clarke Peters
Truelove deals with the very dark subject of death, and when knowing you have a terminal illness and – understandably – want to choose your own time to shuffle off your mortal coil, it should …
Continue readingWitness Number 3 – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Nina Toussaint-White
Witness Number 3 is a new nightly four-part Channel 5 drama where young single mum Jodie Packer (Nina Toussaint-White – Bodyguard) spots something incredible shocking! …A Tory MP telling the truth! No, that’s crazy talk, …
Continue readingHelp – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham
Help is a look at how the social care system in the UK had to adjust to the hell we were all put through as a result of the COVID19 virus which reached our shores …
Continue readingThe Cure (aka NHS Whistleblower) – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 drama
The Cure (aka NHS Whistleblower) is a new Channel 4 drama, based on a true story, from 2007, which highlights just how much we rely on the NHS, and I have for certain, as following …
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 readingAge Before Beauty Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Robson Green
Age Before Beauty proves that yet again, if it’s Tuesday night on BBC1 at 9pm, it’s “TV for women” hour… and this new drama has lots of them working in a beauty parlour. As the …
Continue readingWalk Like A Panther – Trailer 1 – Dave Johns
Walk Like A Panther is a forthcoming comedy about a group of 1980s wrestlers, who are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure. They’re led …
Continue readingKiri – The DVDfever Review – Sarah Lancashire
Kiri is a new four-part drama starring Sarah Lancashire as Miriam, a social worker who owns a dog with low-level depression, whom she dotes upon, and her visits to her mother, Celia (Sue Johnston), in …
Continue readingChristmas 2012 TV… that I’ll still watch… because it’s there…
Christmas Eve Outnumbered (BBC1, 9.35pm) Stupidly, this is another programme over of the holidays, which doesn’t get any kind of a repeat whatsoever – and not everyone wants to watch something via Iplayer, especially when …
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