All Critics articles – Page 129
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CriticsTV Critics: This Old Thing; Jesus Town USA; The Hotel Inspector Returns
“The guinea pigs did not discover fashion originality”
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CriticsTV Critics: Shopgirls; Alison Steadman's Shetland; Love Your Garden
“The programme provided a fine study of the law of unintended consequences”.
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CriticsTV Critics: Police Under Pressure; Murdered By My Boyfriend
“Like West Side Story, but with a complete lack of romance and much more rain”.
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CriticsTV Critics: A Cabbie Abroad; Fargo, Wallander
“Unpromising on paper, this likeable little travelogue was ultimately uplifting.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Fostering and Me; Timeless; Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
“This was an affecting, honest documentary bolstered by some sobering statistics.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Trouble with Mobility Scooters; Majesty and Mortar; Newsnight
“The documentary’s director fought hard to stress the seriousness of the accidents but absurdity kept breaking through.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Auction House; The Girl Who Talked To Dolphins
“Quirky objects were not enough to carry an entire hour of television”.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Dentists; Tigers About The House; Secrets Of The Police
“I no more want to watch these terrifying things on TV again than I want to watch Spider Night or Clown Season”.
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CriticsTV Critics: I Bought a Rainforest; Wallander; Backchat; The Story of a Child Prodigy
“Charlie Hamilton James is one of the most-open minded and likeable presenters on television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain's Benefits Tenants; Going to the Dogs; Damned
”It may yet prove to be a more important contribution to the ongoing debate about welfare than its incendiary predecessor, Benefits Street.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Commando; Football Hooligan & Proud; Law & Order: UK
“The benefit of hindsight made this an incredibly powerful programme.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Street Kid World Cup; Celebrity MasterChef; Lineker in Brazil
“The football – and some of the behaviour – is a disgrace”.
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CriticsTV Critics: David Beckham: Into the Unknown; Caught on Camera; Britain's Whale Hunters
“What was lovely about the journey was that it worked”.
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CriticsTV Critics: Wildfire 2014; Born in the Wild; I Bought A Rainforest; BGT Final
“Kate Humble looked like a woman who’d just been given a fatal medical diagnosis instead of a few facts and figures.”
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CriticsTV Critics: From There to Here; Letters from D-Day; Louie
“A funny, warm and moving family drama full of brilliantly written and realised characters.”
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CriticsTV Critics; Mary's Silver Service; My Last Summer; I Wanna Marry 'Harry'
“The delighted chuckles at their every utterance, the “woo!” of it all, began to wear”.
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CriticsTV Critics: Happy Valley; Amber; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
“A terrific final episode that fizzed with energy, suspense and high emotion”.
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CriticsTV Critics: Dinner at 11; A Very British Airline; Secret Life of Cats
“The real genius lay in the selection of these precocious pre-teens.”
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CriticsTV Critics: I Bought A Rainforest; Quirke; Original Comedy Shorts
“In parts it’s more like an episode of Breaking Bad than a David Attenborough documentary.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Police Commissioner; My Granny The Escort; The Seduction of Smoking
“Twenty Twelve and W1A etc – are pretty much redundant. Because this is so much better.”