All Critics articles – Page 141
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CriticsTV Critics: Champneys; Extant; The Secret Life Of Students
“This film sorely lacked a touch of Champneys’ much-vaunted glamour.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain's Youngest Carers; She's Having a Baby; Brand New House For 5K; This Old Thing; Episodes
“Oritsé Williams was great throughout. Sometimes, the celebrity angle comes good.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Kirstie's Fill Your House For Free; Penny Dreadful; Rebels of Oz
“This is a preposterous programme.”
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CriticsTV Critics: John Bishop's Australia; University Challenge: Class of 2014; Tales from the Royal Wardrobe
“Quite possibly the limpest hour of television I have ever seen.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Common; The Nation’s Favourite Motown Song
“Raw and painfully good performances ensured this was more than an acted-out legal conundrum.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Honourable Woman; The Secret Life of Students; Inside Asprey
“On the strength of this first episode, finally, a British victory might come out of this summer.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Rebels Of Oz; Commonwealth On Film; Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA
“This fine film made me nostalgic for a time that I’m too young to remember”.
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CriticsTV Critics: The World's Best Diets; Girls Will Be Girls; The Leftovers
“What would infotainment be without a Ethiopian farmer challenged to a sweetcorn-pooing contest”?
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CriticsTV Critics: Glastonbury 2014; A 50-Year Argument; Imagine… Monty Python
“The star-struck presenters became blithering nine-year-olds in the presence of their idols.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Meet the Mormons; Beauty Queen or Bust
“The film offered a helpful primer to rules banning tea or coffee as well as alcohol and smoking. Too often, though, we were denied what we most wanted: answers.”
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CriticsTV Critics: This Old Thing; Jesus Town USA; The Hotel Inspector Returns
“The guinea pigs did not discover fashion originality”
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CriticsTV Critics: Shopgirls; Alison Steadman's Shetland; Love Your Garden
“The programme provided a fine study of the law of unintended consequences”.
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CriticsTV Critics: Police Under Pressure; Murdered By My Boyfriend
“Like West Side Story, but with a complete lack of romance and much more rain”.
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CriticsTV Critics: A Cabbie Abroad; Fargo, Wallander
“Unpromising on paper, this likeable little travelogue was ultimately uplifting.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Fostering and Me; Timeless; Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
“This was an affecting, honest documentary bolstered by some sobering statistics.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Trouble with Mobility Scooters; Majesty and Mortar; Newsnight
“The documentary’s director fought hard to stress the seriousness of the accidents but absurdity kept breaking through.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Auction House; The Girl Who Talked To Dolphins
“Quirky objects were not enough to carry an entire hour of television”.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Dentists; Tigers About The House; Secrets Of The Police
“I no more want to watch these terrifying things on TV again than I want to watch Spider Night or Clown Season”.
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CriticsTV Critics: I Bought a Rainforest; Wallander; Backchat; The Story of a Child Prodigy
“Charlie Hamilton James is one of the most-open minded and likeable presenters on television.”


















