Mr Bates vs The Post Office tells of the situation regarding the Horizon Post Office scandal, based around the Horizon computer system which was introduced into post offices in 1999, and led to many subpostmasters …
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Screw Series 2 – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Nina Sosanya
Screw Series 2… should’ve been called Screw 2, for more impact, but anyway. Following the first series, warden Leigh Henry (Nina Sosanya – Brian And Charles) now has a proper abode, of sorts… at least …
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Riches – The DVDfever Review – ITVX drama – Hugh Quarshie, Deborah Ayorinde
Riches is a new ITVX drama (the former ITV Hub), and begins with family company boss Stephen Richards (Hugh Quarshie – The Railway Children Return) bemoaning about how he’s had to struggle to make it …
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The Holiday – The DVDfever Review – Channel 5 drama – Jill Halfpenny
The Holiday sees family strife between four households on what’s meant to be a dream luxury holiday. But then, it wouldn’t be a four-part nightly drama if someone didn’t sleep with someone else, or in …
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Screw – The DVDfever Review – Channel 4 – Nina Sosanya, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell
Screw is a new prison drama on Channel 4, and as well as being a bit of an edgy title, my first thought was that when I requested it, is Microsoft Outlook going to think …
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Wolfe – The DVDfever Review – Sky Showcase – Babou Ceesay
Wolfe is a new drama, with a hint of dark humour, based around crime scene investigator and professor (where does he get the time for two demanding jobs?) Wolfe (Babou Ceesay – Free Fire), and …
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Unsaid Stories – The DVDfever Review – Nicholas Pinnock, Amanda Abbington
Unsaid Stories is a new four-part series of 15-minute short dramas, similar to May’s Isolation Stories. Whereas they centred around… well, everyone having to isolate, this series is based around the Black Lives Matter movement. …
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This Way Up Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review – Aisling Bea
This Way Up gives us Aine (Aisling Bea, above) – pronounced Anya, who’s been staying in a treatment facility designed for people suffering from addiction, while she’s had a a nervous breakdown, then heads back …
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Undercover – The DVDfever Review – Adrian Lester, Sophie Okonedo
Undercover begins centred around Maya (Sophie Okonedo), a laywer who’s spent the last 20 years campaigning for Rudy Jones (Dennis Haysbert), a man imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. However, he’s jailed in …
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The Gamechangers – The DVDfever Review
The Gamechangers tells the story of Rockstar Games, creators of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, and how one of their releases nearly brought down the company, thanks, in part, to a sticky-beak lawyer who needed …
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