All Critics articles – Page 138
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CriticsTV Critics: Remember Me; The Walking Dead
“Twin Peaks with a Tyke backdrop. Weird, unsettling, seriously watchable stuff.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Puppy Love; The Fall
“Puppy Love is proof positive that BBC4’s comedy commissioner is on a roll.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Confessions of a Copper; The Newsroom
“I found that, although I was horrified, I wasn’t entirely unsympathetic. The ex-coppers featured are being honest; it’s just what went on.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Secrets of the Castle; The Missing; Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages
“Secrets of the Castle is like being cornered at a party by a medieval history bore”
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CriticsTV Critics: Dancing Cheek to Cheek; Gotham; How the Rich Get Richer
“It was less serious history, more ‘Carry On up the Regency balls.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Atlantis; World’s Greatest Food Markets; I’m a Celebrity…
“It was like a Fisher Price Game of Thrones – but not nearly as good as that sounds.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Fall; Babylon; Puppy Love
“One episode in, this once again feels like the most sophisticated drama on British television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Liberty of London; Looking After Mum; Posh Pawn
“I could imagine Liberty of London as a one-off doc, but stretching it out over a series – and now, bafflingly, a second series – dilutes its limited charm.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Teenage Tommies; The Missing; Hotel in The Clouds
“If there’s a more concise and astute summary of what the nation stopped to consider at 11 o’clock yesterday morning, I’ve yet to hear it.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Grantchester; How Rich Are You?; Toast of London
“This was an admirable unflinchingness in a programme that I first feared might be little more than a soft-focus soap.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Downton Abbey; Doctor Who; The Mekong River
“Bloody hell, after a super-tiresome series in which almost nothing happened, suddenly everything happens.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Life Story; The Passing Bells; Detectorists
“Amid the inventiveness and the soft, grandfatherly tones of David Attenborough, it’s hard to ignore how selfish a business survival is.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Broadmoor; Great Continental Railway Journeys; Secrets of the Universe
“This first-ever visit by TV cameras provided more than a voyeuristic peek behind the perimeter walls; it gave an insight into some of the troubled minds confined within.”
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CriticsTV Critics: MasterChef: The Professionals 2014; The Missing
“You can have Michelin stars coming out of your arse, but that doesn’t necessarily make you a TV star.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Toast of London; Make Leicester British
“If you don’t find Toast of London’s idiosyncratic pronunciations and Clem Fandango mentions hilarious to the point of hernia, there’s simply no hope.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Doctor Who; Frankenstein and the Vampyre; Downton Abbey
“For the night after Halloween, this was bone-rattling and suitably spooky fare.”
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CriticsTV Critics: 24 Hours in A&E; Life Story; The Great Fire
“A wonderful series that allows everyone and everything time to breathe.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Spider House; The Apprentice; How To Get Away With Murder
“This close-up look at spider behaviour was deeply disturbing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Missing; Life is Toff
“This missing-boy drama was distressing enough to induce a symphathy panic attack.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Intruders; Gotham; Marylin Monroe: The Missing Evidence
“I know that sci-fi is meant to be baffling, but this one baffled far too often.”