All Critics articles – Page 33
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CriticsInside No 9; Russian Doll;The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
‘An embarrassment of comedic riches lavished on a single episode’
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CriticsLife After Life; Better Call Saul
‘It’s early days, but this might turn out to be one of the dramas of the year’
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CriticsYorkshire Midwives on Call; The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
“Yorkshire Midwives on Call is absolutely lovely”
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CriticsGazza; Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?; Compulsion
“This is a thoroughly researched life story. But aside from peripheral details, little was uncovered that wasn’t already well known”
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CriticsDerry Girls; Julia; Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof; Hullraisers
“As a television comedy, it is pretty much perfect”
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CriticsWorlds Collide; Travel Man
“The combination of exhaustive evidence from the inquest with face-to-camera testimony required skilled, sensitive editing”
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CriticsGentleman Jack; The Cane Field Killings
“A gleeful, radical shake-up of period drama that repositions history, sexuality and class with the wink of an eye and poke of a cane”
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CriticsArt That Made Us; Falklands War; Nikki Grahame; Hard Cell
“The idea is excellent and the academics have a great deal of knowledge to impart”
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CriticsJimmy Savile; The Great Home Transformation; Interior Design Masters; The Ultimatum
“A decade on from his death, the story is no less shocking or confounding”
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CriticsEllie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?, Deadline
“Her programme should go a long way towards eroding prejudice and showing viewers how to debate emotive issues with intelligence and compassion”
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CriticsGordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars; Slow Horses
“Perhaps it’s age or perhaps it was the shock of the pandemic, but this is a kinder, gentler Gordon Ramsay”
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CriticsCritics: Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story
“An unmalicious documentary that is at pains to tease apart the issues with which she was concerned and intelligently evaluate them”
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CriticsWinning Time; Newark, Newark; Beyond Reasonable Doubt
“Adam McKay has opted to throw everything at it. The result is a show that leaves you feeling vaguely uncomfortable”
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CriticsFalklands War: The Untold Story; Edward VIII: Britain’s Traitor King
“This thorough, rigorous documentary is an exhaustive and engaging account of what happened”
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CriticsThe Apprentice; Pachinko; Hospital
‘From a cruise ship logo that looked like, well, faeces, to a baby food brand with “dies” on the jar, series 16 has been a gift’
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CriticsMasterChef; The Island; Love in the Flesh; Council House Swap; The Distant Barking of Dogs
‘I never dreamt I’d say this but — more Wallace, please’
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CriticsThe Simpler Life; The Great Celebrity Bake Off
‘Considered within its genre — reality TV as social experiment — the early signs are of a thought-provoking series’