All Critics articles – Page 33
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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’
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CriticsThen Barbara Met Alan
‘As much a moving love story and wryly amusing sitcom as it is an emotionally charged chronicle of a small revolution’
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CriticsDynasties II; Skint; The Speedshop; Bridgerton
‘Dynasties II was superb, the puma cubs so effortlessly adorable they make Disney’s best efforts look lame’
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CriticsTop Boy; WeCrashed; Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World
“If you binge-watch the eight episodes (as many fans will surely do), you’ll feel spat out, exhausted, thrilled”
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CriticsKate & Koji; Bloods; Council House Swap; Bad Vegan
“The laughs were smeared through Kate and Koji like ketchup lathered on a bacon butty”
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CriticsThe Killing of PC Harper; Rock Till We Drop; Bad Vegan; Fame In The Family
“No one who hears an account of a shocking bereavement such as Lissie’s can remain unmoved or uncompassionate”
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CriticsHolding; Bridge of Lies
“It is what you might expect of a version of Ireland conceived by Graham Norton: colourful, funny, warm, and only intermittently acerbic”
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CriticsMy Brilliant Friend; Our House
“This is television at its best and it weaves a spell unlike anything I have seen in a very long time”
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CriticsInterior Design Masters; Storyville; Inside the Convent
“A lively start to a series that, in the past, has been too gentle and friendly”
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CriticsThe Witchfinder
“With a stellar cast and a novel premise, you’ll struggle to find 30 better minutes right now”
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CriticsOur House; Life and Death in the Warehouse; Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next
“A cream puff of cliché and delicious intrigue”
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CriticsThe Ipcress File; Peaky Blinders
“The whole production is stylish, the dialogue is good and I’m glad they haven’t polished things too much, retaining its retro, grainy charm”
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CriticsThe Dropout; Amol Rajan Interviews: Ian McKellen; Joe vs Carole
“The Dropout tells Holmes’s story with a little too much admiration”
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CriticsYour Body Uncovered With Kate Garraway; Joe vs Carole
“The programme was smart enough not to lose sight of its public service impulse”
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CriticsMood; Rock Till We Drop; The Holiday
“This is exactly the kind of fresh voice that BBC3 should be championing”
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CriticsMurder in Provence; Killing Eve; Emergency; Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
“The set-up is lovely, and the locations glorious. I just wish the plots were a little less pedestrian”
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CriticsPeaky Blinders; Killing Eve; Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
“This was the Peaky Blinders we have fallen in love with over the past nine years”
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CriticsBilly Connolly Does; The Big Freeze; Vikings: Valhalla
“The anecdotes are criminally entertaining”
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CriticsWe Are Black and British; Mission: Joy; Frayed; Yorkshire Ripper
“We Are Black and British can comfortably claim to be the most intelligent reality TV show in recent memory”