All Critics articles – Page 148
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CriticsTV Critics: Rockin' Decades; Horizon; Payday; The Life of Rock with Brian Pern
“Rockin’ Decades was a pub argument taken into a TV studio.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Babylon; Salamander
“Babylon was not quite as great as the sum of its parts and the problem lay in Danny Boyle’s direction.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Big Ballet; Pound Shop Wars; Ja'ime: Private School Girl; Inspector George Gently
“This was a frank and refreshing glimpse into a rarefied world obsessed with size.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside No. 9; Royal Cousins at War
“It’s testimony to the top-notch acting and the perfectly-pitched dialogue that the 30-minute episode kept you interested right to the end.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Births, Marriages and Deaths; Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
“I haven’t cried so much during a television programme since Hayley croaked it in Coronation Street.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: DCI Banks; The Jump; Storyville
“There is so little to enjoy in DCI Banks. Tompkinson does lugubrious well but he’s let down here by a wan script.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Bridge II; Scandimania; These Four Walls
“The Bridge II looks a greater achievement not only than The Bridge I but The Killing and Borgen.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Easter Island; Dan Snow's History of the Winter Olympics; Nixon's the One!; Bodyshockers
“It’s rare that a documentary succeeds in completely overturning popular understanding, but that’s what the archaeologist Dr Jago Cooper accomplished.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Outnumbered; Horizon; The Restaurant Man
“There is no escaping the fact that Outnumbered is not as funny as in days of yore. But it is still unmissable.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside the Animal Mind; The Zoo Next Door; The Taste; Extreme World
“Just the right blend of science and spectacle.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain's Great War; Food and Drink; Looking
“The BBC has acknowledged that this war isn’t just fodder for a paternalistic lecture.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV,
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CriticsTV Critics: The Jump; The Voice; Call the Midwife; The Bridge
“The whole thing was quite heartwarming. Utterly ridiculous, yes, but I’ll be tuning in tomorrow.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Silent Witness; Restoration Home; World’s Worst Holiday Horrors; My Kitchen Rules; Benidorm; Ghost Adventures
“All good series come to an end eventually and it can’t be long before a BBC commissioning editor calls time on this one.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Children on the Frontline; Britain’s Oldest Family Businesses
“As the hour unfolded, it felt as if you were watching a sculptor at work.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Naked Rambler; Death in Paradise; The Search for Alfred the Great
“A surprising and thought-provoking documentary.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsThe Twitter verdict: Coronation Street
“Powerful, brave & heartbreaking telly.” Read on for the industry’s verdict on the climax to the soap’s euthanasia storyline.
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CriticsTV Critics: Coronation Street; Girls
“This was not a clumsy for-or-against, TV-does-issues-moment, but a nuanced picture of life ending as much painfully as peacefully.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsThe Twitter verdict: The Musketeers
“My swash has been suitably buckled.” Read on for the industry’s verdict on BBC1’s latest drama.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Musketeers; Mr Selfridge; Call the Midwife
“The Musketeers wasn’t ironic, it wasn’t subversive and it certainly wasn’t politically correct. This was sheer family entertainment.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CriticsTV Critics: Hidden Kingdoms; Tough Young Teachers; Brooklyn Nine-Nine
“Another smashing BBC hour of natural history that made you gasp in delight and wonder.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.