All Critics articles – Page 149
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TV Critics: Chinese Murder Mystery; Full English; The First Masterchef; The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
“Gripping for all the right reasons.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Andrew Marr; Attenborough's Ark; Time Team Special; How Britain Worked; Homeland
“I wouldn’t say he was the wrong man for the job but the job was all wrong from the start.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Great Continental Railway Journeys; Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets; Kirstie's Vintage Home; The Year The Town Hall Shrank; Young Apprentice
“Portillo has been required to service an itinerary of almost pure cliché.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Secret State; Comic Strip Presents
“It looked great, its pace did not let up and the distractingly starry cast acted its socks off.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Heston's Fantastical Food; Dara Ó Briain's Science Club; Some Girls; Food in England
“If part of art’s job is to make us look at the old world with new eyes, this programme was art.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature; Nigel Slater: Life is Sweets; Nick Nickleby
“It was perfectly entertaining but not scientifically taxing - a combination to which I find myself increasingly susceptible.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Downton Abbey; Obama: What Happened to Hope?; The Late Great Eric Sykes; How Britain Worked
“This series has reached new heights of melodrama, absurdity of storyline and cliched writing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Young Apprentice; The Year the Town Hall Shrank; The Human Mannequin
“Its big strength is that it doesn’t condescend to its pimply contestants.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Exposure; Getting On; Come Dine With Me Halloween Special; Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
“This wasn’t a story that hadn’t been reported before, but it was told very powerfully here.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Operation Iceberg; Horror Europe with Mark Gatiss; Last Resort
“This was purely and simply great TV.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: 50 Years of Bond Cars; Gay to Straight; How the Devil Got His Horns
“This vehicle was towing a trailer.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Homeland; The Thick Of It; Harry & Paul; How Britain Worked; The American Roadtrip: Obama's Story
“When the big moment came it was shocking.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Hatfields & McCoys; The Town That Caught Tourette's; Scandal
“Like a hillbilly version of Dallas.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Brazil; Prehistoric Autopsy
‘The truth is that you just can’t make travel programmes like this any more.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Elementary; George Clarke's Amazing Spaces; Tool Academy
“Moffat and Gatiss have nothing to fear – there’s no threat here.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Girls; Panorama; Girls Behind Bars; Bake Off Masterclass; Prehistoric Autopsy
“Girls is so dry, so wry, so unsentimental, just so bloody funny, that there’s still plenty for us boys.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Thick of It; You've Been Trumped; Homeland
“The closest thing we’ve had to serious political drama on television for far too long.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Hebburn; My Tattoo Addiction; Tails You Win
“These people don’t behave or speak like real people, they behave and speak like a sitcom family.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Getting On; Grand Designs
“Everything about this show feels real and unforced.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Order and Disorder; The Great British Bake Off; Fresh Meat; The Great Pretender
“This was a stimulating hour that made science sound very close to metaphysics.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.