All Critics articles – Page 140
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CriticsTV Critics: The Field of Blood; The Men Who Made Us Thin; Legally High
“It’s a potent brew of corruption, conflict and car coats.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: How Not to Get Old; Nurses; Sharknado; Saving Hope
“It didn’t feel very C4 to be implying that having chunks cut off yourself to feel better was a reasonable strategy.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Make Me a German; Stephen Fry's Key to the City; Extreme OCD Camp; Steve Coogan, Stand-Up Down Under
“Occasionally the documentary offered insight beyond the slightly idealised image of a land where beer is abundant and childcare costs are low.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Rick Stein's German Bite; Tales from the Royal Bedchamber; Southcliffe
“Stein’s usual, pleasantly meandering style took a few meanders too many.” Read on for the verdict on last night’sTV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Southcliffe; I Love My Country; Top of the Lake
“This is rare and brilliant Sunday night viewing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Dealership; How to Get a Council House; Shoplife
“Selling is always interesting, and it doesn’t get much rawer and purer than secondhand cars in Essex.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: You Saw Them Here First; Neighbourhood Force; Celebrity MasterChef; WDYTYA?; Love/Hate
“The TV celebrity equivalent of your friends’ parents showing you their old school photos.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: New Tricks; Churchill's First World War; Kumbh Mela; Badults
“New Tricks is not just past its sell-by date, you can actually see the mould growing on it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Caligula with Mary Beard; Failed by the NHS
“From slim pickings, Beard produced an hour of richly entertaining television.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Mill; When Björk Met Attenborough; Top of the Lake; The Returned; Journey's End; Law & Order
“The Mill is certainly an impressive and interesting drama project… But could they not find – among all those letters and diaries etc – some glimmer of hope, or love, or humour?” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Dara O'Briain's Science Club; Catching a Killer; First Dates; Phoneshop
“There were moments when the earnestly intended, Christian-rock-style fusion of hilarity and science felt horribly strained.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Who Do You Think You Are?; Notes from the Inside; The Cafe
“This show had everything: social history, a compelling narrative, genuine emotion, weird coincidences, and the charming Una Stubbs.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Why Don't You Speak English?; Imagine; Rachel Bruno: My Dad and Me; Hunting the Doorstep Conmen
“Enough emotional moments, laughs and dramas to hold the interest.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Burton and Taylor; Take on the Twisters
“It never ignites and goes bang.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret Life of Uri Geller; Music and Monarchy; Family Guy; The Mating Game; Top of the Lake; The Returned
“Either the whole thing was an elaborate hoax, or it was one of the most extraordinary pieces of television I have seen this year.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Briefs; Britain's Favourite Supermarket Foods; Meet the Landlords; Run
“The Briefs could have been depressing but this insightful show had humour to spare.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Apprentice; Wheelers, Dealers and Del Boys; The Real White Queen and Her Rivals
“This was not so much about knocking down sexist stereotypes as using a pink stiletto to bang them a little deeper into the ground.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Family Tree; Ray Donovan; Princess Diana's Dresses
“Amateurishly awkward, funny in a desultory kind of way at one moment, startlingly clunky at others.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Run; My £9.50 Holiday; Panorama; Howzat!; Rick Stein’s India
“It rattled along at a thrilling pace with blade-sharp dialogue.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Top of the Lake; Hunt vs Lauda; Piper Alpha; Alive: Rankin Faces Death
“Without doubt the most original TV drama of the year so far, and possibly the best.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.