All Critics articles – Page 135
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CriticsTV Critics: Critical; Immigration Street; Mary Portas: Secret Shopper
“If Casualty and Holby are medical drama administered by drip, this is television defibrillation with a triple shot of adrenaline in the arm at the same time.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Broadchurch; Catastrophe; A Cook Abroad
“If little Bobby Beale from EastEnders had popped round to bash both the girls to death with his music box, no one could have cared less.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Songs of the South; The Big Painting Challenge; The Casual Vacancy
“Essential viewing for anyone even remotely interested in music.”
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CriticsTV Critics: EastEnders; Reinventing the Royals; Saints and Sinners
“The production was admirably ambitious, transcending soap convention.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great Comic Relief Bake Off; Junk Food Kids: Who's To Blame?; Wolf Hall; Midsomer Murders
“This was the televisual equivalent of junk food: cheap and entirely without true nourishment. The BBC should know better.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Romanians Are Coming; Inside The Commons; EastEnders; The Gift
“This gritty, humane film made The Apprentice look like a kids’ party game.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ukip: The First 100 Days; Broadchurch; The Walking Dead; Better Call Saul; A Cook Abroad
“This was a one-off drama. Thankfully, there’ll be no sequel.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Indian Summers; The Casual Vacancy; Welcome to Mayfair
“A work of subtlety, intelligence and some beauty.”
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CriticsTV Critics: 24 Hour Parcel People; Britain’s Biggest Primary School; Shakespeare’s Mother
“The better story was going on in the boardroom, and the film missed it.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great Comic Relief Bake Off; Wolf Hall; An Idiot's Guide to Politics; Exposure: The Kill List
“It was such fun you might forget the horrible irony of cooking ingredients going to waste in the cause of the starving.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Gift; The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds; Count Arthur Strong; Young War Widows; Uncle
“This Gift was badly wrapped and hurriedly chosen, like something picked up from a late-night petrol station.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Better Call Saul; Asylum; Heston Blumenthal's Recipe for Romance; Broadchurch; A Cook Abroad; Taking New York
“With moral compasses constantly flaring, misdirecting and realigning, this is another dizzingly strong piece of work from the Netflix team.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Mr Selfridge; Our Guy in India; Top Gear; Stella
“If Mr Selfridge carries on like this, you can expect millions to give up watching, in disgust.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Sewing Bee; Warwick Davis's Big Night Out; The Comeback
“How nice to know there is at least one Briton who can still sew a French seam.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Wolf Hall; Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom; The Legacy; Abortion: Ireland's Guilty Secret?
“An episode that Machiavelli himself would describe as “a bit much”, this was an hour of revenge and threats, of fixes and sex, and it’s about as good as television gets.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside the Commons; The Mary Rose: A Timewatch Guide; Rory Bremner's Coalition Report; Bad Builders
“Welcome to the Big Brother House of Commons”
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CriticsTV Critics: 10,000 BC; Broadchurch; A Cook Abroad; Silent Witness
“Channel 5 has something Bear Grylls didn’t: an unlimited supply of divvies”
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CriticsTV Critics: Our Guy In India; Last Tango in Halifax; Animals in Love; The Secret World of Lewis Carroll
“Guy’s a good travelling companion, open-minded but not worthy, less annoying than the average celebrity.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Fortitude; The Vikings Are Coming; The Mega Brothel
“Wilful obscurantism is not unheard of when setting up a mystery drama, but Fortitude is all cloak and very little dagger.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Churchill: The Nation's Farewell; Wolf Hall
“Once Paxman got down to the day itself, the film got better and better, horny with the eroticism of detail.”