All Critics articles – Page 129
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CriticsTV Critics: The Apprentice final
“The Apprentice itself isn’t the winner. Tired and in need of some serious redecoration.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Fall; Playhouse Presents: Marked
“The painstaking procedural elements were confidently compelling and the performances uniformly classy”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Apprentice; The Fight For Saturday Night
“The interview stage is usually one of the highlights of the series but, Littner aside, the interviewers failed to deliver any killer one-liners”
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CriticsTV Critics: Black Mirror; The Missing; The Choir: New Military Wives; The Great British Bake Off Christmas Masterclass
“It was the most original drama (or comedy) of the year.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Steph and Dom Meet Nigel Farage; Timeshift
“It was essentially TV designed for a Twitter LOL-along”
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CriticsTV Critics: Olive Kitteridge; Casualty, Tomorrow's Worlds
“Grown-up television at a time of year when grown-up things tend to be in short supply.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Babylon; Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty; Castles: Britain’s Fortified History
“In the five episodes since its patchy pilot back in February, Babylon has happily transformed into one of the most thrilling and original series on television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies; Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace
“The Lost Honour gave a voice to a man whom few people knew but whom everyone, for a short time, had an opinion on.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Brian Pern: A Life in Rock; Our War: Goodbye Afghanistan; The Secrets of Quantum Physics
“The first of this three-part returning comedy certainly had its very funny moments, but was it really necessary?”
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CriticsTV Critics: Jamie’s Cracking Christmas; Toast of London; Gotham; Inside Tatler; Confessions of...
“Nobody makes cooking look easier or more inviting”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Billion Pound Base; Remember Me
“This was a subtly powerful and intensely depressing film about the end of things and the limits of power.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Fall; Castles; The Railway
“The Fall is a porn movie with an A-level in psychology.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Confessions of a Secretary; The Legacy; Liberty of London
“As with previous instalments in this series, you never quite knew whether to wince, laugh or sob.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Missing; Secrets Of The Castle; Honey I Bought the House
“The Missing has been brilliant, a knuckle-gnawing thriller, but deeply human too.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The British Property Boom; Posh People; Wild Weather
“The British Property Boom was a thoroughly depressing watch, because it was all problem and no solution.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Remember Me; The Great Wall of China; World’s Greatest Food Markets
“Two weeks in and the mystery series was still very original and very creepy.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty; Nigel Slater’s Icing on the Cake; The Fall
“Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty was a like a 99 per cent proof distillation of every great soap story.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Confessions of a Doctor; The Legacy; Benefits Britain
“Confessions of a Doctor tried to cram a lot of things into one programme, and wasn’t entirely successful.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Paedophile Next Door; The Missing; The Real Tom Thumb
“Eddie’s story was grimly hopeful, in as much as it could be in a programme tackling such a devastating subject”
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CriticsTV Critics: Posh People: Inside Tatler; I’m a Celebrity…
“It was like the distant shout of class war across the EPG, but the Tatler terrarium is mercifully double glazed.”