All Critics articles – Page 128
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CriticsTV Critics: Alex Polizzi: The Fixer; Bad Builders: Bang To Rights; Touched By Auschwitz
“A depressing end but brave, I thought, of a reality show to show some reality.”
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CriticsTV Critics: David Starkey's Magna Carta; Broadchurch; South Side Story; Catastrophe
“You daren’t doze off in front of the telly, in case [Starkey] snatches up a bullet of chalk and hurls it at your head through the screen.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Mr Selfridge; Bitter Lake; Night Will Fall; Top Gear
“Mr Selfridge is an entertainment emporium, a new version of Dallas made from Damask, feather boas and fine drama.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cucumber, Banana and Tofu; Surviving The Holocaust; Bring Back Borstal
“As you’d expect from Russell T Davies, it’s dead funny and very, very human.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Wolf Hall; Up The Women; The Secret Horse; Pets: Wild At Heart
“This is event television, sumptuous, intelligent and serious, meticulous in the detail, but not humourless or po-faced.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Eichmann Show; Excluded: Kicked Out of School; The Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home
“The Eichmann Show remained a powerful, at times almost overwhelming, testament both to the horror and to the moral agency of witnessing”
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CriticsTV Critics: Catastrophe; Broadchurch; Silent Witness; Food Unwrapped; Exposure
“Solid, delicious chunks of funny pudding rather than the funny-flavoured foam we’ve been doused in lately.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Call the Midwife; Foyle’s War; Spiral
“I’m certain Call the Midwife would be much improved by morphine.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cyberbully; Brooklyn Nine-Nine; The Super-Rich and Us; The Man in the High Castle; Death in Paradise
“Ben Chanan and David Lobatto’s Cyberbully should be shown in schools, and staged at the National Theatre.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Angry, White and Proud; Life of a Mountain: A Year on Scafell Pike; Mel And Sue
“This is football hooliganism dressed up as an ideological battle.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cockroaches; Nature's Weirdest Events; Suspects
“So this is what The Walking Dead would be like if it had a sillier sense of humour and British TV budget.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Broadchurch; Girls; What's the Right Diet for You?
“Blimey, the second series of Broadchurch isn’t hanging about.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Voice; Harry Hill’s Stars in Their Eyes; Britain's Tudor Treasure
“Never had I pined so much for Simon Cowell’s theatrical cruelty.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Bring Back Borstal; The Super-Rich and Us; Sex Party Secrets
“It was hard to shake the feeling that everyone was simply playing dress-up.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Super Cars vs Used Cars: The Trade Off; Restoration Man; Weekend Warriors
“Super Cars vs Used Cars: The Trade-Off was striving to be the dullest, most grindingly boring documentary ever made”
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CriticsTV Critics: Billionaire's Paradise: Inside Necker Island; Silent Witness
“There were cracks to peer down had the documentary had the nerve”
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CriticsTV Critics: Broadchurch; Richard Wilson on the Road; The Undateables
“Broadchurch continues to be a rich and complex tapestry which respects the viewer’s intelligence and commands you to become an armchair detective”
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CriticsTV Critics: Foyle's War; Sammy Davis Jr: The Kid in the Middle; Walking the Nile; Frank Sinatra: Our Way
“You don’t have to pay close attention to Foyle’s War, but it’s worth it for the detail-rich historical context of Anthony Horowitz’s plots”
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CriticsTV Critics: Esio Trott, Mrs Brown's Boys
“Why can’t children’s TV be this good all year round?”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Wrong Mans; Derek
“So many fireworks, stunts, flourishes and big laughs – but none at the expense of the rock-solid foundations. My TV highlight of the year.”