Comment – Page 189
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CommentTV Critics: Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero; Endeavour; America in Primetime; Ice Cream Girls; The Village; Da Vinci's Demons; Perspectives
“Not just a mid-life-crisis comedian searching for a new purpose in life.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentIt's time to break up BBC iPlayer
Nigel Walley says the BBC must bet on its channel brands if it is to see off competition from emerging rivals.
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CommentTV Critics: If Memory Serves Me Right; Could We Survive a Mega-Tsunami?; Brushing Up On...; Hemlock Grove; Hey Diddly Dee
“It steered a middle course between sounding like CBeebies and making our brains hurt.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentEntertainment reaches parts other genres can’t
Clothilde Redfern on tackling current affairs in different ways
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CommentTV Critics: Vicious; The Job Lot; Greggs: More than Meats the Pie
“The programme that’s been trumpeted as the saviour of ITV sitcom is not a comedy at all. It’s a horror.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Syria: Across the Lines; Israel: Facing the Future; Britain's Youngest Head Chef
“If only Olly Lambert had taken some students with him it might have got the publicity it deserved.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Royal Paintbox; The Mindy Project; Secret Life of the Rockpools
“This tender and illuminating film gave us a sense of the inner and outer worlds of centuries of royals.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Panorama; The Prisoners; Nature Shock; Plebs; Hoarder Next Door; Fit to Rule; Bread; James Nesbitt’s Ireland
“How much does Sweeney discover that isn’t already known?” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentBetting big on Specstacular
Social media agency Liberty842 on tactics for doubling Twitter traffic around the Grand National.
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CommentYou the Jury: The Security Men
Broadcast’s industry review section You the Jury casts a watchful eye over ITV’s Caroline Aherne comedy The Security Men.
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CommentNorth Korea must sound alarm bells for BBC
BBC must learn greater humility and self-criticism says LSE’s Charlie Beckett
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Comment50 shows that changed TV: the 00s
The final part of The Wit’s rundown most seminal shows includes Homeland and The Killing.
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CommentDEBATE: Is the BBC right to play its North Korea doc?
Should it drop Panorama doc after claims LSE students were misled?
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CommentTV Critics: Endeavour; Britain's Got Talent
“This felt like much-needed escapism after the depressingly long winter.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment50 shows that changed TV: the 90s
The shows that changed the face of TV during the ’90s, according to The Wit.
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CommentTV Critics: Tomorrow’s World; The Sex Clinic; High Art of the Low Countries
“These days, makers of history programmes are burdened by the need to make the past seem modern.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea; Mad Men; 24 Hours in A&E; Coast
“Ms Wood was the perfect host for this journey through the turbulent history of tea leaves.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentLess is more for MipTV
The Cannes festival may have been less bustling - but real business was done, says Steve Clarke.
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Comment50 shows that changed TV: the 80s
The ’80s are the next decade in The Wit’s rundown of TV’s most seminal shows.
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CommentTV Critics: The Science of Bubbles; Great British Sewing Bee; Keeping Britain Alive
“Soothing, escapist stuff, full of beautiful shots.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.