All Comment articles – Page 92
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CriticsTV Critics: The Apprentice; Bear’s Wild Adventure with Barack Obama; The Sound of Music
“Maybe it’s not time to present the format with its P45 just yet.”
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CommentMusic steps up a gear for Christmas
How viewers access music is changing - but the festive season is where it really comes into its own, says Jan Younghusband
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CriticsTV Critics: Peep Show; Love You To Death: A Year of Domestic Violence
“I kind of wish Peep Show could just continue every year until Mark and Jez die in soiled trousers from appropriately mundane illnesses.”
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CommentTV in 2015: rolling with the punches
It was a memorable year for British telly, with high-profile exits, Top Gear and Bargain Hunt bust-ups, poltergeists performing wonders for Sky and BGT hit by a doggy-double scandal
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CommentTurning a launch into an event
Expect more experimental release models in 2016, says Kate Bulkley
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CriticsTV Critics: Luther; The World's Most Expensive Christmas; Back in Time for Christmas
“It is, in its heart, an incredibly stupid television programme.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Back in Time for Christmas; Our Guy in Latvia; War and Peace
“You could feel the ghosts of Christmas future gathering in advance of tonight’s second episode.”
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CommentCrunch time for The X Factor brand
Can Cowell and co woo back advertisers and undo the damage of this year’s lacklustre year, asks Manfred Abraham
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CriticsTV Critics: Hunderby; Britain’s Oldest Crooks
“It is sick, and twisted. But it is not only sick and twisted, not just about pushing the boundaries of taste and broadcastability– it’s also beautiful.”
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CommentDiminished Radio 2 would be bad news for the sector
Industry would shrink and commercial rivals would not fill the gap, says Bob Shennan
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CommentUK’s doors must stay open
Tax incentives have created a production golden age, says Tom Avison
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CommentPutting the drama into factual
‘Box-set’ docs show the way to compete with the best of scripted
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CriticsTV Critics: Las Vegas with Trevor McDonald; London Spy; Hunting the Paedophiles
“It was all done so meekly that it felt rather inconsequential.”
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CommentPlaying the long game
Telcos must adjust their pricing to allow TV to take advantage of remote production, says Kevin Fitzgerald
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CriticsTV Critics: Pioneers of Popular Entertainment; Detectorists; The Last Kingdom
“The approach taken by this programme was fantastically misguided.”
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CommentWho benefits from CBBC's extended hours?
All channels will be affected by a decision made with no clear justifcation, says Adam Minns
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CommentWe all have a stake in the future of BBC radio
The radio sector needs to debate the disinctiveness,market share and regulation of the BBC, says Siobhan Kenny
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CommentAlan Yentob: down but not out
Alan Yentob may be the most divisive man in television, but there is broad agreement that the BBC’s creative director has done the right thing in resigning.
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CommentWomen in film and TV are still getting a raw deal
Some things have improved, but the fight for parity isn’t over, says Kate Kinninmont
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CommentSky Q offers a new flavour of TV
Launch marks broadcaster’s move into quad-play, says Kate Bulkley