All Critics articles – Page 120
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside Harley Street; Game of Thrones; Far Right and Proud; Skint
“Vanessa Engle’s splendid film probed and prodded a world that often seemed more about reputation than results.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Tatau; Britain's Got Talent; Poldark; Ninja Warrior UK
“It smacks a bit of the sort of patronising exoticism that went out of favour with the Um Bongo juice ads”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ice Rink on the Estate; The Island; Daredevil; Inside No 9
“Ice Rink on the Estate struck me as little more than a manipulative attempt to raise the profiles of its presenters.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Island with Bear Grylls; Secret Britain; Britain's Jihadi Brides
“It’s worth tuning in tonight just to check that the girls can’t possibly be such dumbheads.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Meth and Madness in Mexico; Ordinary Lies; Spotlight; Better Call Saul
“The most inexplicable combination of presenter and subject matter since Channel 5 chose Keith Chegwin to bare all for Naked Jungle”
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CriticsTV Critics: Code Of A Killer; How to Be a Young Billionaire; Raised By Wolves
“Code Of A Killer, you could say, is doomed by its own DNA”
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CriticsTV Critics: Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot; Gracepoint; DCI Banks
“It was an immature analysis, better suited to a student newspaper than a hour of primetime BBC.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Costa del Sol: Last Brits Standing; Back in Time for Dinner; Nurse
“We got an evocative look at ex-pat life long after the end of happy hour.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Ark; Travel Man
“This was like theatre in education meets theology meets telenovela.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Coalition; By Reason of Insanity; Poldark
“The film’s biggest problem was that it didn’t take us anywhere we couldn’t have imagined for ourselves.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside No 9; The Truth About Calories; Outlander
“This was inventive, deliciously wicked and utterly characteristic of its creators.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Ladykillers: Pest Detectives; The Quizeum; Hillary Clinton: The Power of Women
“In a show about vermin, humanity lay thick on the ground.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure; Teens; Burger Bar to Gourmet Star
“It needed the extra jokey-blokes stuff like a tortilla needs mayonnaise.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Trevor McDonald Meets the Mafia; Storyville: Masterspy of Moscow; Tom Felton Meets the Superfans
“Godfather of the news he might have been but Trevor “The Mac” McDonald just hasn’t got the muscle for this one.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity; Caribbean with Simon Reeve; Poldark
“The annoying thing about Louis Theroux is that even his laziest documentaries are pretty brilliant.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True; Muslim Miss World; The Truth About Sugar
“Things We Won’t Say about Race That Are True may be among the most important documentaries of the decade.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop; Eat To Live Forever With Giles Coren; Three In A Bed
As with the famous chicken product, one bite sufficed for me.
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CriticsTV Critics: Ordinary Lies; Back in Time for Dinner; Fighting the System
“If anything, Ordinary Lies is a victim of bad timing: there’s been an awful lot of duplicity on TV recently.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Raised by Wolves; Kew on a Plate; A Fair Cop; Britain’s Benefit Tenants
“Bright, brash, blinking funny and brilliantly realised”
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CriticsTV Critics: You’re Back in the Room; Nina Conti Clowning Around; Wild Things
“The whole thing is quite retro, and the quiz format adds very little.”