All Critics articles – Page 114
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain’s Biggest Adventures; The Changing Room; The Gamechangers
“This might have been the most likeable and enjoyable manifestation of tough-guy telly ever.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Countdown to Life; All Change at Longleat; Six Degrees of Separation
“Mildly interesting, mildly edifying. Born a touch prematurely, perhaps.”
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CriticsTV Critics: This is England ’90; An Inspector Calls; It Was Alright in the 1980s
“Harry Enfield used to do a sketch about thick, thieving Scousers. This Is England was like an hour of that.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hunted; Cradle to Grave; First Dates; Boy Meets Girl
“Whoever dreamed this up probably wears baking foil inside his nightcap to stop MI5 eavesdropping on his dreams.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Doctor Foster; A Very British Map; The Great British Bake Off
“A brilliant and gripping portrait of a marriage slowly being poisoned.”
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CriticsTV Critics: West Meets East; India: Nature's Wonderland; The World's Worst Place to be Disabled?; Modern Life is Goodish
“This was a film that dared to have opinions about other cultures and religions and also managed to be respectful without seeming awestruck.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Queen's Longest Reign; Doc Martin; The Catch
“The BBC presented The Longest Reign in such a smug, one-sided manner that it was close to unbearable viewing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“It still works as a damn good love story, moving and sad and captivatingly performed.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cradle to Grave; Boy Meets Girl; Jamie’s Sugar Rush
“So far as south London capers go, this was about as funny as getting on the wrong side of the Richardsons.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Ascent of Woman; Kolkata With Sue Perkins
“If knowledge is the ultimate power, then this relentlessly illuminating examination of the past and its legacy could not be more timely.”
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CriticsTV Critics: India: Nature’s Wonderland; Hairy Bikers; I Want That Wedding!; Educating Cardiff; The Hotel Inspector Returns
“This did have some top-drawer footage, but it will not have Sir David looking over his shoulder.
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CriticsTV Critics: Danny and the Human Zoo; An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse; The Catch
“The rags-to-riches story is a familiar one, but seldom played out with such enormous warmth and charm.”
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CriticsTV Critics: World’s Busiest Railway; Muslim Drag Queens; Soup Cans And Superstars
“Watching three people trying to board a commuter train will never be landmark television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Time Crashers; Country Strife: Abz on the Farm; Zeb’s River Journey Thailand
“It is purely old-fashioned entertainment of the kind I worried television had stopped making.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Building the Ancient City: Athens and Rome; Who Do You Think You Are?; Trapped in a Cult?
“This mix of wonder, backed up with actual knowledge, is all I ever want from a documentary”
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CriticsTV Critics: Return of the Giant Killers: Africa's Lion Kings; Britain’s Spending Secrets; Horizon: First Britons; Top Coppers
“Make no mistake, this was a beautifully shot, brutal look at the circle of life.”
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CriticsTV Critics: School Swap – The Class Divide; Terror on Everest: Surviving the Nepal Earthquake; New Tricks
“A touching, optimistic appraisal of state education as it faces unprecedented pressures.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Scandalous Lady W; Revenge Porn; Show Me A Hero
“A cliché of female emancipation when greater insights and complexity beckoned.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Abz on the Farm; The Saturday Night Story; Zoo
“It’s entertaining and as fresh as a cowpat.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Very British Problems; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Unbreakables
“Straining to seem socially anthropological, the show often forgot to be funny.”