All Critics articles – Page 104
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CriticsTV Critics: Hugh’s War on Waste; Roger Bannister: Everest on the Track; Full Steam Ahead
“Unlike an Amazon parcel, this programme was densely packed – with good fact-finding, attention-grabbing stunts and solid campaign journalism”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Three Day Nanny; Masters of the Pacific Coast; Long Lost Family
“Even if you don’t totally believe this happy-families journey, Three Day Nanny does have some good advice and tips.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Wasted; Inside the Factory
“It’s very funny – in a way that might occasionally make you ashamed of yourself for laughing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Naked Attraction; Coach Trip: Road to Ibiza; Dispatches: How School Bosses Spend Your Millions
“By the time bisexual Mal revealed ‘what kind of vagina she liked’ with an anatomical description you could feel your brain starting to desiccate.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Robot Wars; Keith Richards: The Origin of the Species; The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
“Silly, this certainly was. And probably pointless, too. But you couldn’t help thinking that Robot Wars’ time has finally come.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home; The Investigator: A British Crime Story; Fleabag; Full Steam Ahead
“This moving documentary has given human faces to a camp we usually only see from the air.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Joy of Data; Long Lost Family
“Fry made data seem like some magical and benign force wafting around all of us: magnetic, unthreatening, a bit sexy.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Horizon; The Search for the Lost Manuscript; Imagine
“Dumbed down, sexed up, a tad dishonest and, at times, plain daft.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Swim the Channel; The Somme 1916 – From Both Sides of the Wire; Forces of Nature with Brian Cox
“It was like the 40 Minutes docs of old (remember those?), the slightly offbeat feel somehow adding up to a deeper understanding of a very British subculture.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret Agent; One Night in 2012: An Imagine Special
“The television of 1996 was evoked as much as the London of a 100 years earlier.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ross Kemp: The Fight Against Isis; The Investigator: A British Crime Story; The Question Jury; Love Child
“Kemp’s occasional Partridgisms aside, this was actually a pretty solid documentary, blunt and informative, with impressive access to people and places.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Man Down; The Secret Life of Brothers and Sisters; Shades of Blue
“It’s not until you switch off that you marvel how any show with this much talent could be such rubbish.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Job Interview; Child Genius; Trainspotting Live; My Worst Job
“It looks set fair to be as compelling, human and humane a series as that other fixed-rig fandango, First Dates. Put it on your shortlist.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Exodus; Red Rock; The Secret Life of Children’s Books
“This is ambitious, necessary, and devastating documentary-making.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Celebrity First Dates; The Musketeers; Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud
“There was the unmistakable sound of a barrel being scraped.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Matron, Medicine and Me; What Britain Buys; It's Not Me, It's You
“It feels like television has brought its games in on the last day of term whenever Miriam’s around.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Boy Meets Girl; Britain’s Lost Waterlands; Versailles
“It is the most old-fashioned comedy on television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Life Stripped Bare; B is for Book
“Life Stripped Bare was an hour of utter nonsense.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Brief Encounters; Forces of Nature; The Rich Kids of Instagram
“It was as if Victoria Wood had rewritten The Full Monty.”
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CriticsTV Critics: China’s Forgotten Emperor; Top Gear; Catchphrase
“The film, despite its locations, lacked visual majesty. I lay back and thought of Theresa May.”