All Critics articles – Page 172

  • Eddie Izzard
    Comment

    20 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-20T10:25:00Z

    “Substantial and moving.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.

  • Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
    Comment

    15 Dec '10

    2010-12-16T10:59:00Z

    “The show’s great insight, the scientific imagination turned in on itself, and created a sworn enemy: science fiction.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town
    Comment

    15 Dec '10

    2010-12-15T11:52:00Z

    “You can’t fail to warm to a person who gets to grips with a civilisation through its shit, piss and willy-fixation.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • The Savoy
    Comment

    14 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-14T09:57:00Z

    “The whole thing ended up looking about as classy as Wagner doing Cole Porter.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Take Me Out
    Comment

    13 Dec '10

    2010-12-13T10:34:00Z

    “It looks pitifully old-fashioned, devoid of consequence and unconvinced by its own premise.” Read on for the verdict on of last night’s TV.

  • The House that Made Me
    Comment

    10 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-10T12:26:00Z

    “It is time travel that might be designed to send you mad and, in television terms, the more troubled the celebrity, the better the conceit is going to work.” Read on for the verdict on of last night’s TV.

  • The Apprentice
    Comment

    9 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-09T13:51:00Z

    “Cleverer than it looked, even if it made the contestants look stupider.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Coronation Street
    Comment

    8 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-08T10:24:00Z

    “Gave old fans a chance to revisit visual treats.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Coronation Street
    Comment

    7 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-07T09:55:00Z

    “Vivid and terrifying… and leaving many loose ends.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV

  • Operation Mincemeat
    Comment

    6 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-06T10:32:00Z

    “It was like tailoring a bespoke suit without taking any measurements from the client or bothering with the tedious process of sewing the bits together before delivery.” Read on for the verdicts on the weekend’s TV.

  • At Home With the Georgians
    Comment

    3 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-03T10:52:00Z

    “It may have been massaging the truth or using only carefully chosen examples but it suggested things were mighty different in Jane Austen’s day.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Mad Men Don Draper
    Comment

    02 Dec ‘10

    2010-12-02T12:22:00Z

    “If ever television drama attained high art, it was that episode.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Nick Griffin in The Battle for Barking
    Comment

    1 Dec '10

    2010-12-01T11:01:00Z

    “A tragic-comedy in which everyone felt oppressed by everyone else.” Read on for the verdict of last night’s TV.

  • Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Godders
    Comment

    30 Nov '10

    2010-11-30T11:10:00Z

    “Hislop is turning into a rather good TV social historian.” Read on for the verdict on last nights TV.

  • Donald Trump: All-American Billionaire
    Comment

    29 Nov ‘10

    2010-11-29T12:00:00Z

    “It was a passably interesting look at an American success story but based on the illusion that there was an enigma beneath it all.” Read on for the verdict on the latest TV shows.

  • Can't Bully Me
    Comment

    26 Nov ‘10

    2010-11-26T11:43:00Z

    “One of the most worrying elements to emerge over the course of the programme was the correlation - entirely unremarked upon by the narrator - between young carers and bullying.” Read on for the verdict on last nights TV.

  • Fry and Laurie Reunited
    Comment

    25 Nov '10

    2010-11-25T15:02:00Z

    “It’s quite something to make more of a pig of the English language than Sugar does himself, but Jamie somehow manages.” Read on for the verdict on last nights TV.

  • Peter Mandelson
    Comment

    24 Nov '10

    2010-11-24T10:59:00Z

    “Better are the moments that aren’t orchestrated by the man himself, like the time Rothschild catches him with his trousers down.” Read on for the verdict on last nights TV.

  • Dispatches: City of Fear
    Comment

    23 Nov '10

    2010-11-23T11:43:00Z

    “This film followed a year in the lives of the victims of the bombings and the Islamabad police force and what emerged was a portrait of resilience and resignation.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Any Human Heart
    Comment

    22 Nov '10

    2010-11-22T13:29:00Z

    “Looks set to be the Brideshead Revisited of the 21st century.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.