All Critics articles – Page 122
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great Comic Relief Bake Off; Wolf Hall; An Idiot's Guide to Politics; Exposure: The Kill List
“It was such fun you might forget the horrible irony of cooking ingredients going to waste in the cause of the starving.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Gift; The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds; Count Arthur Strong; Young War Widows; Uncle
“This Gift was badly wrapped and hurriedly chosen, like something picked up from a late-night petrol station.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Better Call Saul; Asylum; Heston Blumenthal's Recipe for Romance; Broadchurch; A Cook Abroad; Taking New York
“With moral compasses constantly flaring, misdirecting and realigning, this is another dizzingly strong piece of work from the Netflix team.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Mr Selfridge; Our Guy in India; Top Gear; Stella
“If Mr Selfridge carries on like this, you can expect millions to give up watching, in disgust.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Sewing Bee; Warwick Davis's Big Night Out; The Comeback
“How nice to know there is at least one Briton who can still sew a French seam.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Wolf Hall; Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom; The Legacy; Abortion: Ireland's Guilty Secret?
“An episode that Machiavelli himself would describe as “a bit much”, this was an hour of revenge and threats, of fixes and sex, and it’s about as good as television gets.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside the Commons; The Mary Rose: A Timewatch Guide; Rory Bremner's Coalition Report; Bad Builders
“Welcome to the Big Brother House of Commons”
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CriticsTV Critics: 10,000 BC; Broadchurch; A Cook Abroad; Silent Witness
“Channel 5 has something Bear Grylls didn’t: an unlimited supply of divvies”
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CriticsTV Critics: Our Guy In India; Last Tango in Halifax; Animals in Love; The Secret World of Lewis Carroll
“Guy’s a good travelling companion, open-minded but not worthy, less annoying than the average celebrity.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Fortitude; The Vikings Are Coming; The Mega Brothel
“Wilful obscurantism is not unheard of when setting up a mystery drama, but Fortitude is all cloak and very little dagger.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Churchill: The Nation's Farewell; Wolf Hall
“Once Paxman got down to the day itself, the film got better and better, horny with the eroticism of detail.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Alex Polizzi: The Fixer; Bad Builders: Bang To Rights; Touched By Auschwitz
“A depressing end but brave, I thought, of a reality show to show some reality.”
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CriticsTV Critics: David Starkey's Magna Carta; Broadchurch; South Side Story; Catastrophe
“You daren’t doze off in front of the telly, in case [Starkey] snatches up a bullet of chalk and hurls it at your head through the screen.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Mr Selfridge; Bitter Lake; Night Will Fall; Top Gear
“Mr Selfridge is an entertainment emporium, a new version of Dallas made from Damask, feather boas and fine drama.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cucumber, Banana and Tofu; Surviving The Holocaust; Bring Back Borstal
“As you’d expect from Russell T Davies, it’s dead funny and very, very human.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Wolf Hall; Up The Women; The Secret Horse; Pets: Wild At Heart
“This is event television, sumptuous, intelligent and serious, meticulous in the detail, but not humourless or po-faced.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Eichmann Show; Excluded: Kicked Out of School; The Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home
“The Eichmann Show remained a powerful, at times almost overwhelming, testament both to the horror and to the moral agency of witnessing”
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CriticsTV Critics: Catastrophe; Broadchurch; Silent Witness; Food Unwrapped; Exposure
“Solid, delicious chunks of funny pudding rather than the funny-flavoured foam we’ve been doused in lately.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Call the Midwife; Foyle’s War; Spiral
“I’m certain Call the Midwife would be much improved by morphine.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cyberbully; Brooklyn Nine-Nine; The Super-Rich and Us; The Man in the High Castle; Death in Paradise
“Ben Chanan and David Lobatto’s Cyberbully should be shown in schools, and staged at the National Theatre.”