All Critics articles – Page 105
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TV Critics: Secrets of Growing Up; Versailles; Power Monkeys; Rescue Dog to Super Dog
“Viewers who want science turn to the BBC. Making slightly downmarket science is not going to attract them.”
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TV Critics: Horizon; Rich Brother Poor Brother; Thierry Henry; Lagos To London
“Dr Giles Yeo’s Horizon special was a healthy buffet of factlets served piping hot.”
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TV Critics: Reg; Handmade by Royal Appointment; Meet What You Eat
“McGovern and co have created a magnificent tribute to their courage and a worthy epitaph for the deceased.”
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TV Critics: Penelope Keith; Wallander; You Saw Them Here First; Escape to the Chateau
“This four-part series began well, but made the elementary mistake of trying to cram in too much.”
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TV Critics: Living with Dementia; Going Forward; The Truth About Healthy Eating
“This was immersive, important television, and inspiring too.”
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TV Critics: Versailles; Secrets of Growing Old; Alan Shearer’s Euro ’96; Ben Building
“It is a trashy, extravagant romp that takes liberties with the actuality. It is also, undeniably, quite a lot of fun.”
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TV Critics: Myleene Klass: Single Mums on Benefits; Musical Masters of the 19th Century; Roots
“This was never going to be a probing look at the benefits system. Instead it was positive – if not stretching – telly.”
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TV Critics: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle; Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport
“Here was the loveliest, most natural treatment of dialogue I’ve heard in a TV adaptation of Shakespeare.”
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TV Critics: The Truth About Alcohol; Inside Britain’s Biggest Mosque; Going Forward
‘I like a drink’ he claimed, but Dr Javid’s idea of a fun night out was to have one glass of chardonnay, then blow into a breathalyser every 20 minutes.
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TV Critics: Going Going Gone; Hidden Killers; The Making Of An Ice Princes
“You did not need to share Broomfield’s nostalgia to admire these two sad, belligerent portraits of communities that were allowed to die.”
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TV Critics: Rovers; Last Whites of the East End; The KKK: Behind the Mask
“Evo-Stik league comedy: too depressing to be amusing.”
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TV Critics: Storm Troupers; Eating Well; I Want My Wife Back; Secrets of The Nazi Occult
“I would never have forecasted that the history of weather would yield such a spellbinding hour.”
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TV Critics: Wallander; Alfie’s Boys; Love, Nina
“A slow and predictable story. Even the great Kenneth Branagh found it hard to more than wander through it.”
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TV Critics: Going Forward; The Truth About Dementia; At Home With The British
“The characters are glorious. This is humour with a heart.”
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TV Critics: Lose Weight for Love; Handmade on the Silk Road; A Man for All Seasons; Ultimate Rome
“The premise of Professor Tanya Byron’s experiment seems impractical unless you’ve got a loitering television crew to keep you honest.”
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TV Critics: Locked Up; Zoo Quest in Colour; Marcella
“If you enjoy Prisoner: Cell Block H, all this melodrama might appeal.”
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TV Critics: The Great British Sewing Bee; Upstart Crow; Eating Well With Hemsley And Hemsley
“Despite the lack of tension, Sewing Bee is nice, gentle and aesthetically pleasing to watch.”
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TV Critics: A Different Brain; Mum; The Hollow Crown; Stupid Man, Smart Phone
“Raw and sometimes unbearable, this was a brave piece of television.”
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TV Critics: Billions; Grayson Perry: All Man; Betrayed & He’s Going To Pay
“Hell it’s fun though, even if I feel ever so slightly naughty – guilty even – for enjoying it so much.”
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TV Critics: Killer Women; Cunk on Shakespeare; Nature’s Epic Journeys
“There’s something a bit murder-porn about it all.”