All Critics articles – Page 156
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TV Critics: Elementary; George Clarke's Amazing Spaces; Tool Academy
“Moffat and Gatiss have nothing to fear – there’s no threat here.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Girls; Panorama; Girls Behind Bars; Bake Off Masterclass; Prehistoric Autopsy
“Girls is so dry, so wry, so unsentimental, just so bloody funny, that there’s still plenty for us boys.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Thick of It; You've Been Trumped; Homeland
“The closest thing we’ve had to serious political drama on television for far too long.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Hebburn; My Tattoo Addiction; Tails You Win
“These people don’t behave or speak like real people, they behave and speak like a sitcom family.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Getting On; Grand Designs
“Everything about this show feels real and unforced.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Order and Disorder; The Great British Bake Off; Fresh Meat; The Great Pretender
“This was a stimulating hour that made science sound very close to metaphysics.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Walking With Dogs; For The Love Of Dogs; Made In Chelsea; Sing For Your Life
“There surely must have been some serious culling of dull doggy stories because everything that remains is a little bit extraordinary.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Plane Crash; Hunted; Coronation Street
“Extraordinary television – mesmerising and terrifying.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: DCI Banks; Welcome to India; Great British Food Revival
“Some really superior writing is going on here.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Wonderland; The Great Train Robbery; Timeshift
“The beauty contests looked so weird they might have belonged to another civilisation altogether.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Homeland; Arena: The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
“It’s accomplished American TV, but so far at least, it does not look as if it was necessary to make.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Hunted; Red Dwarf; Homefront
“It’s all style and not much substance.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile; Best Possible Taste; Welcome to India
“By midnight, the reputation of a peak-time legend had been convincingly devastated.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip; Cuckoo
“Thoroughly researched, wittily presented and genuinely original.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Monroe; Conspiracy Road Trip; New Tricks; Health Before the NHS
“Its characters seem so deliberately ‘there to say something’ that they feel less like people and more like plot devices.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Doctor Who; Servants; The Thick of It; Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home
“A brilliant episode, full of warmth and humanity.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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TV Critics: Homefront; Wartime Farm; The Audience; The British
“I did not hate it as much as I expected.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Room at the Top; Mrs Biggs; Doomsday Preppers
Room at the Top, BBC4“One of the good things about Room at the Top is that it doesn’t ever feel casually superior to the times it depicts. Another is that the script is full of lines that have an unexpected bounce… I’ve watched this twice now ...
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TV Critics: The Paradise; The Boy Who Can't Forget; The Man Who Saved the World: Revealed; Cuckoo
“It has been a while since I got lost in a department store. I won’t be losing myself in this.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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TV Critics: Nigelissima; Birds, Balls and Brighton; Being Liverpool
“The strangest cookery programme I’ve ever seen.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.