All Critics articles – Page 116
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CriticsTV Critics: Dispatches: Escape from Isis; Veep; People Just Do Nothing; Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners; Girls with Autism
“It’s a gut-punching snapshot of a complicated world that leaves you reeling.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Great Ormond Street; Hive Minds; The House That £100K Built; Imagine
“Last night’s programme was a brilliant opener to what looks like being another remarkable series.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cracking China; Hair; Inside the Ku Klux Klan; Rookies
“It was a show so arrogantly, blindly self-promoting, it felt like the TV version of that article Samantha Brick wrote about her own beauty.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Outcast; Marvel’s Agent Carter; Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure
“This adaptation of Sadie Jones’s bestselling novel was the tiniest bit lacking. There were times when it felt like a French & Saunders satire.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Married At First Sight; Coast; Grand Designs; Playhouse Presents: King for a Term
“It’s certainly entertaining television – Don’t Tell the Bride meets Take Me Out with the ante upped. And then upped again, seriously upped.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Autistic Gardener; Children Of The Gaza War; From Russia With Cash
“Thanks to Alan’s charisma and good humour, the programme was fun, entertaining and never patronising”
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CriticsTV Critics: Virgin Atlantic: Up In The Air; Benefits By The Sea; Imagine: Beware Of Mr Baker; unReal
“Offers, as far as I can tell, nothing fresh to the body of knowledge. I’ve been more entertained waiting at a baggage carousel.”
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CriticsTV Critics: How To Get A Council House; A Deadly Warning: Srebrenica Revisited; Idris Elba: No Limits
“No one could call this an enjoyable documentary, but it caught the spirit of the times.”
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CriticsTV Critics: A Song For Jenny; Fake Or Fortune; Black Work
“An extraordinary performance by Emily Watson, portraying not only Julie Nicholson but also grief itself.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain Beneath Your Feet; Career Criminals; Superhospital
“With a little more scientific and historical rigour it could have worked, but this slapdash approach underestimated the intelligence and attention span of its audience.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Don't Tell The Bride; Kids in Crisis?; Insane Fight Club II; SunTrap
“It is genuinely touching, as well as being funny, as men cocking up never fails to be.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Not Safe For Work; Child Genius; Dan Cruickshank's Civilisation Under Attack
“It was slickly produced, strongly performed and smartly scripted, yet lacked jeopardy or warmth and failed to fully take flight.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Superfoods: the Real Story; True Detective; The Met; Tattoo Fixers
“This four-parter takes the long way round to reveal the inevitable.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Odyssey; Cordon; Top Gear
“Like a version of Homeland made by The Beano, this war on terror conspiracy hogwash hobbles its way through every cliché of the genre.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Superhospital; The Tribe; Dogs: Their Secret Lives
“This is reality TV put to its best possible use.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Don’t Tell the Bride; The Interviews; Haslar; Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords
“Don’t Tell The Bride is a fat, flea-ridden, red-eyed rodent of a television programme.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Bank; Don’t Blame the Council; Mountain Lions
“A revealing and surprisingly entertaining three-part doc.”
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CriticsTV Critics: True Detective; The Met: Policing London; Kevin McCloud's Escape to the Wild
“It is all very different from the first season and, I am glad to report, it is all very much the same.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Black Work; Humans; The Legacy
“Despite the fine performances, it paled in comparison to other recent gritty cop dramas.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hoff the Record; Dogs: Their Secret Lives; Catching History's Criminals; Celebrity MasterChef
“It was painfully raw at times, broken up with flashes of black humour, surreal wit and gratuitous bum gags.”