All Comment articles – Page 71
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CommentTV gives us reasons to be cheerful
In a gloomy world, viewers are turning to feelgood programmes
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CriticsTV Critics: Ordinary Lies; Prison, My Parents and Me
“Danny Brocklehurst’s episodic serial is one of the best dramas on television this autumn.”
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CriticsTV Critics: NW; Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues
“This was a powerful, chastening contribution to the BBC’s Black and British season.”
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CriticsTV Critics: My Mother and Other Strangers; Deep Water
“This is wistful, romantic, Sunday-night costume drama that doesn’t quite fill the void left by Poldark.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Close to the Enemy; The Secret Life of Prisons
“It’s bold, and beautiful, haunting, clever and original.”
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CommentAudiences want more than glitz
In an age of austerity, perhaps we should put value in content over form, says John Lloyd
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CriticsTV Critics: Black and British; Britain’s Adoption Scandal
“David Olusoga excavates our shared heritage with humanity and verve.”
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CommentITV should play to its strengths
Drama with humour works better than comedy, says Stephen Arnell
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CommentThe latest version of FCP X ticks all the boxes
There are those who talk about Final Cut Pro X and there are those that use Final Cut Pro X, says Rory Cantwell
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CommentUS to be fertile ground for docs
Strong factual community can capitalise on shock Trump win, says Chris Curtis
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret Life of 4-Year-Olds; MasterChef; Divorce; Crime and Punishment
“You can learn more about life and compromise from this programme than from 18 months following the American elections.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Damilola; Rich Hall’s Presidential Grudge Match; Dark Angel
“This terrific piece of TV was a fitting tribute to them all.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Gun Shop; Conspiracy Files; Bublé at the BBC
“It made me very, very relieved to be living in a country that has strict gun control.”
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CommentTime to bulk up or fall behind
Context is everything for AT&T/Time Warner merger, says Kate Bulkley
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CriticsTV Critics: The Choir; Storyville; The Moonstone; Ordinary Lies
“By the time Mums in Durham are at the miner’s welfare centre belting out Billy Joel’s She’s Always a Woman to Me to their weeping children, husbands and nans, I’m sold.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Dark Angel; Moonstone; Ice Train To Nowhere
“This is what Downton might have been like, if its creator Lord Julian Fellowes had been an Islington Leftie.”
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CommentMike Darcey: Sky's stand off with Netflix
The former Sky chief operating officer analyses why the pay-TV operator and SVoD giant have failed to make friends.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Young Pope; For The Love Of Dogs; The Fall
“The Young Pope defies all rational description. However bad you imagine it could be, it’s immeasurably worse.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Bake Off; The Missing; Gogglebox
“This was a curious final. Not just for the elephant the size of Paul Hollywood’s pay cheque that lurked in the tent, but for the oddly low-key tasks.”