Comment – Page 192
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CommentTV Critics: Shetland; Countryfile; Toughest Place to Be A…; Call the Midwife; Secrets of Stonehenge Skeletons
“The piece has a bleak Nordic freshness but the plot feels as if it might have been dug up itself.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: How to Get to Heaven With the Hutterites; Heritage!; Mayday; Gogglebox
“It was a beautiful, moving film but it was hard not to feel that you had seen most, if not all of it, before.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentHerSay tackles lack of women experts
As women celebrate International Women’s Day, we remain badly under-represented
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CommentNo box for Patten?
There’s no doubt that Lord Patten had a lot on his plate in the final months of last year, but amid the Jimmy Savile crisis, the BBC Trust chairman had more prosaic priorities.
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CommentAnd Finally: Hayley McQueen, Sky Sports News
The presenter on telling lies, good manners and too many lists
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CommentTV Critics: Anna & Katy; America's Poor Kids; Parks and Recreation; The World's Oldest Joke; Derek
“It made me laugh, and for a genre that many have dismissed as dead and buried, that’s no mean feat.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTime to make performance regulations child’s play
Why can’t the government simplify child performance laws? asks Paul Shuttleworth
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CommentOne step forward for women
Expert Women campaign is making a difference, says Sky News editor Tami Hoffman
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CommentLet the games begin
BT’s acquisition of ESPN will be a force to reckon with for Sky, says Henry Daglish
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CommentTV Critics: Blustone 42; The Crash; Mayday
“The bravest thing I have seen on television for a while.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Broadchurch; Mayday; The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance; Death on the Wards
“It is a wonderful moment when a much anticipated new post-watershed thriller turns out to deliver.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentRadio 5 Live controller faces tough test
Premier League rights, news to sport ratios and presenter line-ups are among Wall’s challenges
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CommentTV Critics: Mayday; Being Human; Story Of Music; Call The Midwife
“Mayday looks like being the darkest, thorniest, knottiest TV drama event of the year.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentThe Iraq Dossier
David Morley’s new drama for Radio 4 reveals the truth about the creation of the Blair Government’s Iraq Dossier.
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CommentTV Critics: Bank of Dave; The Wedding Shop; Hugh's Fish Fight; Child Of Our Time; Jack Taylor
“It was like a Frank Capra movie with Burnley accents.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentC4's Shop gets John's vote
Channel 4’s The Fried Chicken Shop clearly got viewers salivating last week, with 1,700 tweets per minute at its peak.
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CommentTV Critics: Lightfields; Child Of Our Time; Food Glorious Food; MasterChef: The Professionals Uncovered
“The individual strands were engaging, the period detail nicely observed and the performances very strong.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentIt’s well worth UK indies taking the road to Rio
Despite bureaucracy, Brazil offers plenty of opportunity, writes David Nottman-Watt
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CommentTV Critics: Heading Out; My New Hand; The Railway; Shameless
“If Perkins can keep the gags coming then this sitcom definitely has legs.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV Critics: Dancing on the Edge; Black Mirror; Food & Drink; HMP Aylesbury; Extreme Fishing
“It featured narrative machinery so surreally creaky that you wondered at times whether it would end up being explained away as a dream sequence.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.