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 …
Continue readingThe 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 …
Continue readingScrew – 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 …
Continue readingWolfe – 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 …
Continue readingUnsaid 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. …
Continue readingThis 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 …
Continue readingUndercover – 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 …
Continue readingThe 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 …
Continue readingNo Offence Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
No Offence is the latest Paul Abbott drama to come to Channel 4 in a blaze of publicity, with the same trailer being shown about 954 times in the past few weeks, or so it …
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