All Critics articles
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CriticsThis City Is Ours
“There are too many ‘gritty’ drugs gang dramas on TV but what makes a refreshing change about this one is that it is modern, witty & authentic”
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CriticsHappy Face; Gangs of London
“Happy Face stands on its own two feet as a drama and tells a grisly story without exploiting the victims”
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CriticsThe Residence; The Marlow Murder Club; The Richard Dimbleby Lecture; Comic Relief
“This is not television that is going to change the world, but it is going to give you eight hours of fantastic escape. Enjoy”
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CriticsLeaving Neverland 2
“Reed has done fine work in telling us a highly significant story, but at this stage there is not enough more of it to tell.”
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CriticsThames Water: Inside the Crisis; Tempting Fortune
“Fascinating though it is to watch, the documentary’s jaunty tone might jar”
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CriticsProtection
“Sunday nights are back in business when it comes to tense, twisty police thrillers”
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CriticsDope Thief; Stacey Dooley: Rape on Trial
“There are holes in the plot – but things move so fast and furiously that Dope Thief gets away with it”
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CriticsSchool Swap: UK to USA; The Au Pair
“It makes for a compelling and often unhappy picture of what it is like to be young, both in America and here in the UK”
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CriticsChess Masters: The Endgame; Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway
“Quietly compelling and full of chequered charm”
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CriticsTen Pound Poms
“A charming series that fits into Call the Midwife’s Sunday evening slot perfectly”
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CriticsThe Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed
“It is a tale with all the twists, coincidences and courage that the intrigue-hungry viewer would want”
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CriticsA Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story; Get Millie Black
“A thought-provoking drama powered by a strong central performance from Lucy Boynton”
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CriticsThe Leopard; With Love, Meghan
“As testaments to the flux of history go, The Leopard manages to be beautiful, engaging and suitably elegiac”
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CriticsFear; Imagine: The Academy Of Armando
“A stylish, intelligent take on a story that has been told before but not often so well”
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CriticsSmall Town, Big Story; Bergerac
“It’s perfectly jolly to watch and there are some decent turns and funny lines”
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CriticsToxic Town
“Jack Thorne manages to make a bleak and enraging story sing with a fizzing script”
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CriticsThe One That Got Away; Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin; Hunting the Online Sex Predators
“A great psychological drama attached to a cracking crime thriller”
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CriticsIsrael and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October
“Norma Percy has created something that deserves to be talked about in the same terms as The World at War”