All Critics articles – Page 112
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Sewing Bee; Upstart Crow; Eating Well With Hemsley And Hemsley
“Despite the lack of tension, Sewing Bee is nice, gentle and aesthetically pleasing to watch.”
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CriticsTV Critics: A Different Brain; Mum; The Hollow Crown; Stupid Man, Smart Phone
“Raw and sometimes unbearable, this was a brave piece of television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Billions; Grayson Perry: All Man; Betrayed & He’s Going To Pay
“Hell it’s fun though, even if I feel ever so slightly naughty – guilty even – for enjoying it so much.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Killer Women; Cunk on Shakespeare; Nature’s Epic Journeys
“There’s something a bit murder-porn about it all.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hairy Bikers; Children of the Frontline; Penguin A&E; Sun, Sea and Supersavers
“Three hours of the most effortful, least edifying reality documentary I have seen for a fair while.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Upstart Crow; Very British Problems; Life That Glows
“Elton’s new show slipped by as smartly as Blackadder once did and enabled us to forget things he’d written in between.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hollow Crown; Attenborough at 90; Hillsborough
“This is top-notch swordsmanship, cut with great thought and precision to leave no scar. There will probably be complaints from a stuffy old scholar or two. Not from me, though.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Grayson Perry: All Man; Peaky Blinders
“Intelligent, not mawkishly sentimental and no pointless background music: this is how factual television should be.”
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CriticsTV Critics: HMP Norwich; Horizon; Never Seen A Doctor
“Her Majesty’s Prison: Norwich was a deliberate heartstring-tugger. But interesting stories lurked behind the off-the-peg style.”
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CriticsTV Critics: In The Club; Conspiracy Files; Penny Dreadful
“This series has charm by the bucketload, but more inner conflict is needed.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Posh Neighbours at War; Veep; Marcella; Paul Merton’s Secret Stations
“Amusing to watch, but it’s also quite frightening how something relatively petty can get so out of hand.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Line of Duty; What Would Be Your Miracle?; The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis; The Hairy Bikers
“Extraordinary, intense, butt-clenchingly gripping television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome; Normal For Norfolk; Caravanner of the Year; Plebs
“A thoughtful and resolutely British series that, like its predecessors, deserves to draw in viewers by the million.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside a Billionaire’s Wardrobe; Camping; Flowers; Britain’s Treasure Islands
“The documentary was too even-handed to be truly memorable.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Flowers; Game of Thrones; Horizon
“By the end of the hour Flowers had blossomed in to that rare thing on TV: something original.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Louis Theroux; Who Was Yehudi?; Hinterland
“It is good to have Louis back here in Britain, and on a subject that feels close to home and relevant.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Elizabeth at 90 – A Family Tribute; Natural World: Nature’s Perfect Partners; Aliens: The Big Think
“I cannot recall ever seeing a more charming, warm and – dare I say – human portrait of the Queen than this one.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Caravanner of the Year; Murder in Paradise; Five Star Babies
“Caravanner of the Year isn’t just a weird idea for a TV programme; it’s a weird idea for a thing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Fierce; The Tiny Tots Talent Agency; Tribal Teens
“The more precious the site, the more wondrous the natural wonder, the more the presenter and his voice get in the way.”
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CriticsTV Critics: I Want My Wife Back; The People v OJ Simpson; Pubs That Built Britain
“This felt more situation than comedy, never quite escalating into knockabout.”