All Critics articles – Page 125
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CriticsTV Critics: Poldark; For the Love of Fred Astaire; Peter Kay’s Car Share; Hunters of the South Seas
“It could have been horribly mawkish, instead it was devastatingly good.”
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CriticsTV Critics: W1A; Madam Secretary; Inside No. 9; The Last Days of Charles I
“A needle-sharp satire of the awful incompetence, arrogance and piffle of life within the BBC.”
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CriticsTV Critics: World's Richest Terror Army; The Last Hours of Robin Williams; Secret Britain
“This was journalism at its best.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Plus Sized Wars; Back In Time For Dinner; Ballot Monkeys
“An uplifting and educational programme that managed to address a (literally) big issue without being voyeuristic or patronising.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Safe House; Chefs on Trial
“‘Safe’ is the operative word in this by-the-book collection of ITV thriller clichés.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hunters of the South Seas; For The Love of Cars; Indian Summers
“A lovely, touching, very human little film.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret Life of the Pub; Inside No 9; Banished
“This doc provided nothing to answer the obvious question for viewers: wouldn’t you rather just be in the pub?”
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CriticsTV Critics: Newzoids; The Delivery Man; Raining in My Heart; Million Pound Properties
“The first episode too frequently swung at easy targets – and rarely landed anything resembling a knockout.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ordinary Lies; My Big Fat Asian Wedding; Britain’s Favourite Foods; Ecstasy Wars
“Mackenzie Crook’s portrayal of the slowly imploding Pete was unbearably perfect.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside Harley Street; Game of Thrones; Far Right and Proud; Skint
“Vanessa Engle’s splendid film probed and prodded a world that often seemed more about reputation than results.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Tatau; Britain's Got Talent; Poldark; Ninja Warrior UK
“It smacks a bit of the sort of patronising exoticism that went out of favour with the Um Bongo juice ads”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ice Rink on the Estate; The Island; Daredevil; Inside No 9
“Ice Rink on the Estate struck me as little more than a manipulative attempt to raise the profiles of its presenters.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Island with Bear Grylls; Secret Britain; Britain's Jihadi Brides
“It’s worth tuning in tonight just to check that the girls can’t possibly be such dumbheads.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Meth and Madness in Mexico; Ordinary Lies; Spotlight; Better Call Saul
“The most inexplicable combination of presenter and subject matter since Channel 5 chose Keith Chegwin to bare all for Naked Jungle”
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CriticsTV Critics: Code Of A Killer; How to Be a Young Billionaire; Raised By Wolves
“Code Of A Killer, you could say, is doomed by its own DNA”
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CriticsTV Critics: Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot; Gracepoint; DCI Banks
“It was an immature analysis, better suited to a student newspaper than a hour of primetime BBC.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Costa del Sol: Last Brits Standing; Back in Time for Dinner; Nurse
“We got an evocative look at ex-pat life long after the end of happy hour.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Ark; Travel Man
“This was like theatre in education meets theology meets telenovela.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Coalition; By Reason of Insanity; Poldark
“The film’s biggest problem was that it didn’t take us anywhere we couldn’t have imagined for ourselves.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside No 9; The Truth About Calories; Outlander
“This was inventive, deliciously wicked and utterly characteristic of its creators.”