All Critics articles – Page 149
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TV Critics: The Apprentice; Bankers; Great Artists in Their Own Words; Parks and Recreation
“This week’s task is to hang, disembowel each other and sell the entrails to the highest bidder on the black market. No, not really. Just a little dream I had.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Town with Nicholas Crane; Love & Death in City Hall; Frankie
“Town with Nicholas Crane is Coast with Nicholas Crane, only ever so slightly urbanised.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Secret Tunnel Wars; Game Of Thrones; Branded A Witch
“His rather breathless manner was justified because he was often talking while crouched beneath several tons of unstable chalk.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Case Histories; Eurovision; Sincerely, F Scott Fitzgerald
“This programme struggled to use up its minutes efficiently.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Syndicate, What Do Artists Do All Day?, Edwardian Insects, CSI
“I felt as if I knew the set-up and how each character’s storyline was likely to play out within seconds of meeting them.” Read on for the verdict on last nigth’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Tube; The Murder Workes
“Wasn’t there a BBC2 documentary series about the tube just five minutes ago?” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Bankers; The Apprentice; 24 Hours In A&E
“Self-regarding sacks of bombast” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Honey Boo Boo; Frankie; Hannibal
“The richest irony about Here Comes Honey Boo Boo may be the name of the channel that brings it to us – TLC.”
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TV Critics: The Fall; Skint; The Flying Archaeologist
“It seems a pity that, yet again, attractive young women have to be sacrificed for public entertainment.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; The Fantastic Mr Feynman; The United States of Television
‘You can’t quite shake the feeling that it’s one of those projects that was nobody’s first choice.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Murder on the Home Front; The Politician's Husband; Sex on Wheels; Bradford: City of Dreams
‘Episode one was compelling and beautifully shot.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Great Artists in Their Own Words; Bankers
“There was no escaping the very obvious fact that this was actually just another quite good film about the history of 20th-century art.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Apprentice; Hannibal; Mary, Queen of the High Street
“Lord Sugar’s search for a business partner has begun, and it looks like it could be a return to form.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Motor Morphers; SuperScrimpers; Banshee; Planet Earth; Ben Fogle; The Flying Archaeologist
“No tips for making your own boat out of a jam jar. Just good, hard engineering.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Repo Man; 12 Year Old Lifer; The Politician's Husband
“Sometimes, a programme comes along which succeeds purely on the eccentricity of the central figure.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Mafia’s Secret Bunkers; Nelson's Caribbean Hell-Hole; 24 Hours in A&E; Scott & Bailey; Browsers; School of Hard Sums
“Fascinating and depressing in equal measure.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Archaeology: A Secret History; Alex Polizzi: The Fixer Returns
“Miles was so busy making like Indiana Jones that it was almost impossible to absorb what he was saying.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Young Margaret; The Village
“The insights into Baroness Thatcher’s early life were in a different class from other TV tributes.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Politician’s Husband; Playhouse Presents; Man Lab; Watson & Oliver
“The political sophistication of a fifth-form politics lesson.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Great Bear Stakeout, License to Kill
“I think they’re really horrid, these bears… Amazing footage, though.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.