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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Big Mood – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Nicola Coughlan
Big Mood is a new vehicle for Derry Girls‘ Nicola Coughlan (Barbie) as Maggie, where her opening gambit is to go back to her old school that’s “like Grange Hill, but somehow less glamourous” to …
Continue readingWolf – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Ukweli Roach
Wolf begins with a person in a complete Hazmat suit dragging a body across field, then stabbing it, as if to make clear that they’re not in the right mind. Then cut to cop Jack …
Continue readingAnnika – The DVDfever Review – BBC drama – Nicola Walker from The Last Train
Annika is the character portrayed by Nicola Walker from The Last Train, and as a newly-promoted Detective Inspector, the body found in the Clyde will certainly challenge Annika… What’s odd, initially, is how she breaks …
Continue readingThe Midwich Cuckoos – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Keeley Hawes
The Midwich Cuckoos is an adaptation of the John Wyndham novel, and a situation where I never saw any other version which has gone before (and I haven’t read a novel since I left school). …
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