All Critics articles – Page 123
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CriticsTV Critics: Angry, White and Proud; Life of a Mountain: A Year on Scafell Pike; Mel And Sue
“This is football hooliganism dressed up as an ideological battle.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cockroaches; Nature's Weirdest Events; Suspects
“So this is what The Walking Dead would be like if it had a sillier sense of humour and British TV budget.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Broadchurch; Girls; What's the Right Diet for You?
“Blimey, the second series of Broadchurch isn’t hanging about.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Voice; Harry Hill’s Stars in Their Eyes; Britain's Tudor Treasure
“Never had I pined so much for Simon Cowell’s theatrical cruelty.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Bring Back Borstal; The Super-Rich and Us; Sex Party Secrets
“It was hard to shake the feeling that everyone was simply playing dress-up.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Super Cars vs Used Cars: The Trade Off; Restoration Man; Weekend Warriors
“Super Cars vs Used Cars: The Trade-Off was striving to be the dullest, most grindingly boring documentary ever made”
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CriticsTV Critics: Billionaire's Paradise: Inside Necker Island; Silent Witness
“There were cracks to peer down had the documentary had the nerve”
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CriticsTV Critics: Broadchurch; Richard Wilson on the Road; The Undateables
“Broadchurch continues to be a rich and complex tapestry which respects the viewer’s intelligence and commands you to become an armchair detective”
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CriticsTV Critics: Foyle's War; Sammy Davis Jr: The Kid in the Middle; Walking the Nile; Frank Sinatra: Our Way
“You don’t have to pay close attention to Foyle’s War, but it’s worth it for the detail-rich historical context of Anthony Horowitz’s plots”
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CriticsTV Critics: Esio Trott, Mrs Brown's Boys
“Why can’t children’s TV be this good all year round?”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Wrong Mans; Derek
“So many fireworks, stunts, flourishes and big laughs – but none at the expense of the rock-solid foundations. My TV highlight of the year.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Apprentice final
“The Apprentice itself isn’t the winner. Tired and in need of some serious redecoration.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Fall; Playhouse Presents: Marked
“The painstaking procedural elements were confidently compelling and the performances uniformly classy”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Apprentice; The Fight For Saturday Night
“The interview stage is usually one of the highlights of the series but, Littner aside, the interviewers failed to deliver any killer one-liners”
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CriticsTV Critics: Black Mirror; The Missing; The Choir: New Military Wives; The Great British Bake Off Christmas Masterclass
“It was the most original drama (or comedy) of the year.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Steph and Dom Meet Nigel Farage; Timeshift
“It was essentially TV designed for a Twitter LOL-along”
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CriticsTV Critics: Olive Kitteridge; Casualty, Tomorrow's Worlds
“Grown-up television at a time of year when grown-up things tend to be in short supply.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Babylon; Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty; Castles: Britain’s Fortified History
“In the five episodes since its patchy pilot back in February, Babylon has happily transformed into one of the most thrilling and original series on television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies; Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
“The Lost Honour gave a voice to a man whom few people knew but whom everyone, for a short time, had an opinion on.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Brian Pern: A Life in Rock; Our War: Goodbye Afghanistan; The Secrets of Quantum Physics
“The first of this three-part returning comedy certainly had its very funny moments, but was it really necessary?”