All Critics articles – Page 119
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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.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Horizon; Tom Jones’s 1950s; Michael McIntyre’s Big Show; The Five
“An absorbing and challenging Horizon, an oddly heavyweight option for Sunday evening.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret Files; Jungle Animal Hospital; Bargain Shop Wars; British Army Girls
“The Secret Files is a fascinating idea and last night’s selection shimmered with gems.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Normal For Norfolk; Scott & Bailey; What British Muslims Really Think
“A programme which sat somewhere between a Seventies sitcom and an episode of The Apprentice.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Camping; The Tunnel; Britain's Treasure Islands; River Monsters
“There’s no better comedy around at the moment.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Abused; Into the Wild; The Island
“It’s to Auntie’s credit that here on primetime was a programme directly addressing its institutional failures around Savile.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain's Got Talent; Home Fires; Hidden Britain by Drone; 11.22.63
Cowell needed Beau Dermot because the rest was repetitive fare”
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CriticsTV Critics: How to Stay Young; Workers or Shirkers?; Army Girls
“It was a thought-provoking hour that will have had every viewer mentally calculating how many years they could add to their life by dropping this, taking up that and eating more of the other.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The People Next Door; Grantchester; The Reassembler
“A glittering puzzle box of a mystery that hinted at dark deeds without ever fully showing its hand.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Drive; How Not to Do DIY; Bake Off Crème De La Crème
“This is going nowhere and I’d rather sit in traffic.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Marcella; James May: The Reassembler; Sex Box
“The whole thing felt untethered to reality, which didn’t do much for its credibility but helped it to work surprisingly well as drama.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Undercover; The Durrells
“I didn’t mind not having a clue what was going on, even if at times it felt like at least three different dramas were playing out in tandem.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Line of Duty; The Secret History of My Family; Mission Survive; Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
“What confidence Mercurio has in his storytelling – the nerve, to hold it all back until the second episode!”
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CriticsTV Critics: Bake Off: Crème de la Crème; Murdered By my Father; The A Word
“A bloodless, uninvolving affair at once frenetically busy and yawningly free of incident.”