All Critics articles – Page 156
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CommentTV Critics: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile; Best Possible Taste; Welcome to India
“By midnight, the reputation of a peak-time legend had been convincingly devastated.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip; Cuckoo
“Thoroughly researched, wittily presented and genuinely original.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Monroe; Conspiracy Road Trip; New Tricks; Health Before the NHS
“Its characters seem so deliberately ‘there to say something’ that they feel less like people and more like plot devices.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Doctor Who; Servants; The Thick of It; Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home
“A brilliant episode, full of warmth and humanity.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Homefront; Wartime Farm; The Audience; The British
“I did not hate it as much as I expected.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Room at the Top; Mrs Biggs; Doomsday Preppers
Room at the Top, BBC4“One of the good things about Room at the Top is that it doesn’t ever feel casually superior to the times it depicts. Another is that the script is full of lines that have an unexpected bounce… I’ve watched this twice now ...
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CommentTV Critics: The Paradise; The Boy Who Can't Forget; The Man Who Saved the World: Revealed; Cuckoo
“It has been a while since I got lost in a department store. I won’t be losing myself in this.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Nigelissima; Birds, Balls and Brighton; Being Liverpool
“The strangest cookery programme I’ve ever seen.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Andrew Marr's History of the World?; Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home; Parade's End; Jimmy and the Whale Whisperer
“How did one of the Corporation’s most valued broadcasting assets end up trapped in this mangled wreck?” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Choir; The Audience; Making Faces
“This season, the series lacks an obvious raison d’être.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Imagine; Antiques to the Rescue; Food Hospital
“They seem to be running out of ideas for TV formats.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Love and Marriage; Lilyhammer; Romanzo Criminale
“Heavy on the anecdotes and thin on the insights.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Masters of Money; Panorama; Leaving
“Enough rigour to make it worthwhile, not too much jargon to make it a snooze.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Downton Abbey; The Thick of It; Moone Boy
“You never really get the sense that it’s going anywhere.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Audience; Bletchley Circle; InterCity 125
“I have a strong feeling that Channel 4 is on to something here.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Dead Good Job; Grand Designs; Be Your Own Boss
“One of the finest films about dying this critic has seen.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Lilyhammer; Trouble on the Estate; Vikings
“I assumed it was an American production. That is not meant as praise.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Leaving; 999: What's Your Emergency?; Hillsborough; Gordon Ramsay
“Touching, understated and entirely believable.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Thick Of It; The Scapegoat; China On Four Wheels
“There’s no escaping it: this opening episode is – whisper it – disappointing.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: The Bletchley Circle; Hilary Devey: Women at the Top
“A goodish plot, a strong cast and some unexpectedly stylish touches of 50s period noir.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.