All Critics articles – Page 123
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CriticsTV Critics: British Sitcom; Cold Feet; Panorama
“The programme distinguished itself by not taking a simplistic view of the past.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter; First Day At Big School; Victoria; Poldark
“Getting experts together to talk to one another may be discredited as a television format, but, as a means of progressing and challenging arguments, it still works very well.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Absolutely Fashion; Hancock’s Half Hour; Ingenious Animals
“An irresistible peek into a world that the rest of us cart horses and donkeys can only dream of.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Our Girl; Ross Kemp: Extreme World; Undercover: Nailing The Fraudsters
“Our Girl’s heart was in the right place but its script didn’t do it justice.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Motherland; Hairy Bikers; One Of Us
“It’s at least four times better than anything else I’ve seen in ages.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cold Feet; We The Jury; Too Posh To Parent
“This was witty, well-made drama – no longer as fresh or original, perhaps, but still compelling and warm.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Poldark; Roald Dahl’s Most Marvellous Book; Strictly Come Dancing; Victoria
“There were no signs here of nerves or second album syndrome.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Till Death Us Do Part; The Murder of Sadie Hartley; Ellen; The Night Of
“A half hour back in the company of Alf Garnett merely underlined that we’re lucky that Till Death has departed.”
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CriticsTV Critics: DCI Banks; The Great British Bake Off; Sex, Lies and Cyber Attacks
“Its sole purpose seems to be padding out the schedules until something more exciting gets made.”
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CriticsTV Critics: New York: America’s Busiest City; All Together Now; Home from Home
“This would have been great, if the subject matter had not been so stultifyingly dull.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Joe Wicks; Victoria; Are You Being Served?; Porridge
“Wicks shows that the yabbery confidence required for social-media branding can fluently be transferred to television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Circuit; Horizon; Class of '92; CCTV: Neighbourhood Watching
“The writing was witheringly acute and the cast a dream.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Watchman; Chronicles of Nadiya; The Great British Bake Off
“Stephen Graham has more talent, presence and charisma in the beard he grew for The Watchman than your Tom Cruises and Colin Firths have in their entire CVs.”
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CriticsTV Critics: One of Us; Inside the Factory; Rookies
“Gripping stuff that had me hooked from the very start”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ripper Street; Britain’s Hardest Workers; 500 Questions; Four Rooms
“Ripper is the real thing, a gripping story, thoughtfully told.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Fleabag; There’s Something About Rom-Coms
“A Miranda for women with much to lose, but not their chains.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Secrets of a Police Marksman; The 80s; Celeb Trolls
“It was deeply contentious stuff, but handled carefully and fairly.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Skies Above Britain; Great Canal Journeys; People Just Do Nothing
“A quite thrilling essay on the wonders and practical dangers of taking to the air.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Heroes of Helmand; Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes
“An hour of confusing and heartbreaking tragedy which had little clear point.”
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CriticsTV Critics: My Sheepdog & Me; No Man Left Behind; Alphabetical
“It had all you could ask of a soft-centred show about rural life.”