All Critics articles – Page 118
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CriticsTV Critics: The Detectives; Benefits Street; The Night Bus
“Techniques more often seen in drama are skilfully employed to bring out the full impact of real-life storie.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell; The Detectives; 1864
“There were pleasures here, but this drama was singularly lacking in magic.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Born Naughty?; The Secret World of Tinder; Wayward Pines
“A fascinating look at family relationships.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Affair; The World’s Most Expensive Food; The Great British Garden Watch
“The Affair gave us smart writing, complex characters and simmering sexual tension.”
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CriticsTV Critics: No Offence; 24 Hours in the Past; The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge
“It makes you want to fall at the feet of everyone involved in love and gratitude.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Benefits Street; Episodes; The Night Bus
“This programme provides the press with the necessary fodder to demonise benefit claimants, then sits back and enjoys the resultant ratings.”
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CriticsTV Critics: For Richer, for Poorer; Wellington; The Enfield Haunting; Grace and Frankie
“This documentary went beyond the cheesy war-of-the sexes format in favour of genuine insights.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Shark; Watchdog At 30; The Game
“Breathtakingly beautiful and, at times, genuinely terrifying.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Murder in Successville; Bugsplat!
“I’m almost ashamed of how much this made me laugh.”
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CriticsTV Critics: No Offence; Inside the Factory; Penny Dreadful
“No Offence is everything Shameless fans could have hoped for and more.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Handmade; The Stranger on the Bridge; The C-Word; How the Other Half Eat; VE Day
“This attempt at enforced relaxation actually had the effect of making me feel more stressed.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Game; Fraud Squad; W1A
“The first episode was wonderfully atmospheric and beautifully realised.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Peter Kay’s Car Share; The Trouble With Our Trains; Inside No.9
“Car Share represented a triumphant return to TV form for Peter Kay.”
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CriticsTV Critics: 24 Hours In The Past; Empire; The Queen’s Big Night Out
“There is something satisfying about seeing (vaguely) familiar faces off the telly wading around in excrement.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Himmler: The Decent One; Safe House; Inside Harley Street
“This was a marrow-chilling psychological profile. Unpleasant but essential viewing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Poldark; For the Love of Fred Astaire; Peter Kay’s Car Share; Hunters of the South Seas
“It could have been horribly mawkish, instead it was devastatingly good.”
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CriticsTV Critics: W1A; Madam Secretary; Inside No. 9; The Last Days of Charles I
“A needle-sharp satire of the awful incompetence, arrogance and piffle of life within the BBC.”
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CriticsTV Critics: World's Richest Terror Army; The Last Hours of Robin Williams; Secret Britain
“This was journalism at its best.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Plus Sized Wars; Back In Time For Dinner; Ballot Monkeys
“An uplifting and educational programme that managed to address a (literally) big issue without being voyeuristic or patronising.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Safe House; Chefs on Trial
“‘Safe’ is the operative word in this by-the-book collection of ITV thriller clichés.”