All Critics articles – Page 109
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CriticsTV Critics: Doctor Thorne; Thirteen; House Of Cards
“Doctor Thorne feels akin to the best TV adaptations of Trollope.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Grantchester; Raised By Wolves, One Child
“ITV’s reliably enjoyable crime drama rapidly re-established its ability to cloak grim realities in cuddly, familiar trappings.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Davina McCall: Life at the Extreme; Born to Be Different; Scrappers - Back in the Yard
“Davina’s enthusiasm for the wildlife was genuine and I suppose her presence was this show’s USP”
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CriticsTV Critics: Davina McCall: Life at the Extreme; Fresh Meat
“The channel’s glory days of Survival seem a distant memory.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Churchill’s Secret; The Night Manager; Thirteen; Stag
“Lovely performances all round … especially from Michael Gambon as the main man.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Sex Survey; The Story of China; Ugly House to Lovely House; Jericho
“The Great British Sex Survey was a pile of toss. Ninety minutes of filler on a Thursday night.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside Buckingham Palace; Prosecutors; One Child
“This may have been worthless as history, but someone deserves a knighthood for bad telly this good.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Lost Tribe of the Amazon; Who’s the Boss; The Inspectors Are Coming
“Moving, and sad, often scary, sometimes funny, and absolutely fascinating.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Fresh Meat; Cuckoo; The People v OJ Simpson
“I haven’t made a sound other than a groan of despair when watching a British sitcom since the late 1990s and yet here it is, a comedy that is actually extremely funny. How could I have missed it?”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Night Manager; Kipling’s Indian Adventure; Dickensian
“It is all superbly done. My only gripe is that there are only six episodes.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Big Dreams, Small Spaces; Sea Cities; Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons
“Don appeared with the sceptical wisdom of a linen-clad garden Gandalf.”
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CriticsTV Critics: One Child; The Great Chinese Crash?; The New Yorker Presents
“Though at times rather preachy, it set everything up for what promises to be a captivating series.”
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CriticsTV Critics: It's Not Rocket Science; Better Call Saul; Cuckoo; Mid Morning Matters
“It’s Not Rocket Science was as painful as a maths teacher who thinks he is ‘down with the kids’.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The People vs OJ Simpson; The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive; Vinyl
“Even though we know how it plays out, going on the first episode, this will be compulsive viewing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Trapped; Call The Midwife; Deutschland 83; The Walking Dead
“It was so absorbing that within five minutes I’d forgotten it was subtitled, and tried turning the volume up.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain’s Weirdest Council Houses; The Brain with David Eagleman; Cats v. Dogs: Which is Best?
“I was expecting to hate it. But it wasn’t rubbish at all.”
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CriticsTV Critics: How to Die; The £100k House; Midsomer Murders
“How to Die: Simon’s Choice was a beautiful, careful, measured film.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Happy Valley; The Great British Benefits Handout; Prison Brides; Hidden and Homeless
“It was a very strong, very well-plotted return and Sarah Lancashire was terrific.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The X-Files; Royal Navy School; Addicted to Sheep
“Not an unmitigated disaster, but underwhelming and ultimately unnecessary.”