All Critics articles – Page 136
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CriticsTV Critics: From There to Here; Letters from D-Day; Louie
“A funny, warm and moving family drama full of brilliantly written and realised characters.”
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CriticsTV Critics; Mary's Silver Service; My Last Summer; I Wanna Marry 'Harry'
“The delighted chuckles at their every utterance, the “woo!” of it all, began to wear”.
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CriticsTV Critics: Happy Valley; Amber; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
“A terrific final episode that fizzed with energy, suspense and high emotion”.
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CriticsTV Critics: Dinner at 11; A Very British Airline; Secret Life of Cats
“The real genius lay in the selection of these precocious pre-teens.”
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CriticsTV Critics: I Bought A Rainforest; Quirke; Original Comedy Shorts
“In parts it’s more like an episode of Breaking Bad than a David Attenborough documentary.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Police Commissioner; My Granny The Escort; The Seduction of Smoking
“Twenty Twelve and W1A etc – are pretty much redundant. Because this is so much better.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Derek; Mad Men; Episodes
“The show seems to have been devised by someone of Derek’s limited intelligence”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Complainers; Welcome to Rio; Britain's Got Talent
“The Complainers proved that British traditions of patience and reserve have been replaced by foul language and Twitter”
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CriticsTV Critics: Mods, Rockers and Bank Holiday Mayhem; What The Dambusters Did Next; Goodness Gracious Me
“There are more diverting ways of entering this subcultural rabbit hole”
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CriticsTV Critics: From There to Here; Horizon; How The Wild West Was Won
“From There to Here is in danger of being neither here nor there.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Del Boys And Dealers; Jack Taylor; Coast Australia
“This programme was not so much a parade of freakish objects as a celebration of people.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Penny Dreadful; Philip Roth Unleashed; Happy Valley
“A Gothic adventure full of allusions to the greats of literary horror.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Battle to Beat Polio; Lynn Barber’s Celebrity Masterclass; The Island
“The footage on show here – scary newsreel footage and creepy public service messages – illustrated it well.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Dylan Thomas: Poet In New York; Wallander; Rio 50 Degrees
“Tom Hollander captured perfectly the desperation of the poet’s swanswang, filled with wind, fire, vomit and whisky.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Tyger Takes on Porn; Thalidomide – the 50 Year Fight; The Big Allotment Challenge
The documentary urgently needed insights from someone who hadn’t been brainwashed by sex industry professionals all their life.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Episodes; Coast Australia; Bill Connolly’s Big Send-Off
“These characters exist in such a gilded environment that it is difficult to care about their lives.”
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CriticsTV Critics: 24 Hours to Go Broke; Ben Fogle’s Animal Clinic; Mr Drew’s School for Boys
“Not as a stinging satire on wealth inequality, but an enjoyable, and unexpectedly informative travelogue.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Copacabana Palace; Man vs Weird; Prey
“There wasn’t enough to lift the film much above a point-gasp-envy! look at the way the other 0.1% live.”
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CriticsTV Critics: BBC2's Hidden Treasure; The Crimson Field; Pop Go the Women
“It was eye-opening to see how timid the BBC’s commissioners have grown since the good old days.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Blurred Lines; Heston’s Great British Food; Jonah from Tonga; Nosferatu in Love
“A thoughtful – and often disturbing – analysis of modern life.”