All Critics articles – Page 145
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TV Critics: The Lady Vanishes; Our Queen; It's Kevin; In the Flesh; Churchill and the Fascist Plot
“Why remake Hitchcock? It is, quite simply, never a good idea. Never.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Prisoners' Wives; Killers Behind Bars; Horizon; Born to Be Different
“It’s popular, mainstream drama at its best.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Mimic; A Very British Wedding; Insect Worlds; Food Glorious Food
“An absolute dog’s dinner of an idea, if ever there was one.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: MasterChef; Heading Out; Planet Ant; Bluestone 42; Whale Adventure
“With every new run, its menu offers enough novelty to keep us interested.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: A History of Syria; Panorama; Broadchurch; Food & Drink; Bomb Patrol; Shetland
“While it provided useful background information, experienced Syria-watchers were likely to be exasperated by its simplistic analysis and reliance on Syrian government sympathisers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Shetland; Countryfile; Toughest Place to Be A…; Call the Midwife; Secrets of Stonehenge Skeletons
“The piece has a bleak Nordic freshness but the plot feels as if it might have been dug up itself.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: How to Get to Heaven With the Hutterites; Heritage!; Mayday; Gogglebox
“It was a beautiful, moving film but it was hard not to feel that you had seen most, if not all of it, before.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Anna & Katy; America's Poor Kids; Parks and Recreation; The World's Oldest Joke; Derek
“It made me laugh, and for a genre that many have dismissed as dead and buried, that’s no mean feat.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Blustone 42; The Crash; Mayday
“The bravest thing I have seen on television for a while.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Broadchurch; Mayday; The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance; Death on the Wards
“It is a wonderful moment when a much anticipated new post-watershed thriller turns out to deliver.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Mayday; Being Human; Story Of Music; Call The Midwife
“Mayday looks like being the darkest, thorniest, knottiest TV drama event of the year.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Bank of Dave; The Wedding Shop; Hugh's Fish Fight; Child Of Our Time; Jack Taylor
“It was like a Frank Capra movie with Burnley accents.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Lightfields; Child Of Our Time; Food Glorious Food; MasterChef: The Professionals Uncovered
“The individual strands were engaging, the period detail nicely observed and the performances very strong.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Heading Out; My New Hand; The Railway; Shameless
“If Perkins can keep the gags coming then this sitcom definitely has legs.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Dancing on the Edge; Black Mirror; Food & Drink; HMP Aylesbury; Extreme Fishing
“It featured narrative machinery so surreally creaky that you wondered at times whether it would end up being explained away as a dream sequence.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Ripper Street; Wonders of Life; A Great British Air Disaster; Wild Arabia; Beat The Ancestors; Top Gear; Mr Selfridge
“You would not necessarily go out of your way to see it, but it was fun.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Walking Wounded; Murder on the Victorian Railway; Meet the Izzards; Jack Taylor
“If this year throws up a programme more deserving of an hour’s screen time then I’ll be amazed.” Read on for the vercit on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Fried Chicken Shop; The Pirate Bay; The Sound and the Fury; Death in Paradise; The Railway
” It can’t have cost much more than the price of a few chicken combos to make… Weirdly, though, it’s lovely.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Her Majesty's Prison: Aylesbury; Black Mirror
“A commendable and compelling window on an appallingly bleak world.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Complicit; The Hotel
“This feels like television for now.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.