All Critics articles – Page 141
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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.
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CriticsTV Critics: Nick and Margaret: We Pay All Your Benefits, Brady and Hindley: Possession
“Why Nick and Margaret: We Pay All Your Benefits was fronted by Nick and Margaret (now so famous in their own right they don’t need surnames) never became quite clear.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Zoo, Horizon: The Truth About Personality, The Apprentice
“The work of the zoo’s vets could have filled the entire programme and wouldn’t have been as lacklustre as the animal footage.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Murder Trial, Piper Alpha: Fire In The Night, How The North Was Built
“It was like a very satisfying long narrative read in an American magazine.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Count Arthur Strong; Howzat! Kerry Packer's War, The Travellers' Secret Cash Stash
“It’s a comedy with humanity behind it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Burma, My Father and the Forgotten Army; The Returned; The Lost Submarine of WWI
“He’s quite gruff, is Griff – it may be the heat, or possibly the genes.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.