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McDonald & Dodds: Clouds Across The Moon. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Tala Gouveia, Jason Watkins, Max Bennett, Gerran Howell, Charlie Chambers, Liv Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Pearce Quigley, Claire Skinner, Joanna Riding, Joan Iyiola, Stefan Adegbola, Grace Francis.

There is a subsection of the police procedural crime fiction that the armchair detective will rave about, as if solving a murder wasn’t good enough for them, that they can battle their own wits against the investigator in charge, it is when the villain is so conniving, so  devious in their passion to prove they are just as clever as the one chasing them, if not more so, the complications presented to the viewer are boundless and enthralling to decipher.

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(418 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

McDonald & Dodds: A Billion Beats. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Jack Riddiford, Claire Skinner, Lily Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Paul McGann, Ben Batt, Daisy Bevan, Kelvin Fletcher, Paul Forman, Naoki Mori, John Omole, Bluey Robinson, Bill Skinner, Bridgitta Roy, Nino Furuhata, Louise Jameson.

There are sports that seem universally embraced and then there are those that to a proportion of the population is not for them, that is not only fuelled by a passion that defies logic, but can seem reckless, spoiled by money, out of the realms to ordinary men and women, and in the case of motor racing, is all about the one second glimpse of the vehicle, a second in which A Billion Beats of the heart can seem to be over in a flash.

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(490 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Macdonald & Dodds: Belvedere. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Jason Watkins, Tala Gouveia, Jack Riddiford, Claire Skinner, Lily Sacofsky, Danyal Ismail, Sian Phillips, Alan Davies, Catherine Tyldesley, Holly Aird, Gabriel Bisset Smith, Charlie Chambers.

The locked room mysteries have not quite had their day, but they certainly have exhausted the imagination of many a writer; so much so that it will take a phenomenal tale worthy of being presented by a supreme great to revive significant interest in the genre once again.

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(472 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)