All Critics articles – Page 132
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CriticsTV Critics: Warren United; Drag Queens of London; New Worlds
“Warren United lacks the space…in which real originality can grow.”
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CriticsThe Twitter verdict: Fargo
“The migration of mid range Indy movies to television feels complete.”
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CriticsTV Critics: How To Get A Council House; Mad Men; Ian Hislop's Olden Days; Party House
“He undermined his argument with soundbites from the usual Socialist Worker types”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Big Allotment Challenge; Nightmare Neighbour Next Door; Watermen: A Dirty Business
“What do you expect? It’s about English allotments – it’s going to be parochial.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Restaurant Wars; The Wonder of Bees
“This programme title might have struggled to meet the Trade Descriptions Act.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Amazing Greys; The Guess List; Dirty Weekenders in France; The Crimson Field
“How refreshing to see a programme showing that older people rule.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Digby Jones: The New Troubleshooter; Porn: What's the Harm?; Everyday Eden
“This is quietly confident troubleshooting without all the usual concessions to soapy manipulation.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Under Offer: Estate Agents On The Job; Ian Hislop's Olden Days; W1A
“It’s hard to remember when such a great television find has been so badly wasted.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Call Centre; The Battle for Britain's Breakfast; The Great British Sewing Bee
“You couldn’t shake the feeling that you were caught in a feedback loop of shtick.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Game of Thrones; Undeniable; Treasure Hunters
“A so-so start to a season billed to be the best of them yet.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Crimson Field; The Trip To Italy
“Lavish, performed with gusto, obviously well researched, and historically fascinating.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Real Ripping Yarns; 15,000 Kids and Counting; Jockey School; Hercules The Human Bear
“Real Ripping Yarns provided a novel lens though which to view a major change in British culture/”
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CriticsTV Critics: Kim Philby – His Most Intimate Betrayal; Monkey Planet; Invasion of the Job Snatchers; W1A
“For once in an historical documentary, the re-enactments felt right.”
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CriticsTV Critics: New Worlds; Horizon: Living with Autism; Killer Magic
“This new cast of Skins graduates and ex-models didn’t quite live up to the Devil’s Whore originals.”
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CriticsTV Critics: London Live launch; Our Gay Wedding; Rev; Nigel Farage: Who Are You?
“Night one was amateurish, of course it was, but does everything need to be slick?”
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CriticsTV Critics: Endeavour; Border Country; Louis Theroux's LA Stories
“No amount of Scandi-cool direction from Kristoffer Nyholm could make this draggy script zip along.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Believe; Salting The Battlefield; Mayday; Klondike; Ade At Sea; How to Get Ahead
“[Either]thrillingly mysterious or just lazily underwritten.”
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CriticsTV Critics: MasterChef; W1A; Dead Famous DNA
“After a decade it’s feeling like same old same old.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Missing; Lambing Live; Secrets of Bones; Secrets of the Vatican; Parkinson: Masterclass
“This programme should have taken more risks, instead of allowing so much to remain unsaid.”